Sensing Nature Open Call

Babylon ARTS are inviting the public to try one (or all) of the Sensing Nature Challenges, for the chance to be featured in an upcoming exhibition.

The Babylon Young Associates will select artworks to be exhibited in the Sensing Nature Exhibition, which will run from 28th February – 24th March 2024. All submissions will also be showcased in a virtual gallery for the duration of the exhibition. The deadline for submissions is Friday 1st December 2023.

The Babylon Young Associates are curating a multi-sensory exhibition inspired by how we
experience nature through our senses, as part of Inspired by Nature, a National Lottery
Heritage funded programme supporting more people across the Fens to get creative in
nature. Selected works will be exhibited in the Sensing Nature exhibition, which will be an immersive experience, engaging all the senses, to consider our relationship with the natural world.

The Sensing Nature Open Call invites people to participate in one (or all) of the three
challenges: Listen, Touch and Look. Submissions are encouraged in a range of styles and techniques, and from all ages and experience levels. To find out more about the challenges, please read the submission guidelines at: https://www.babylonarts.org.uk/news/view, sensing-nature-open-call_25168.htm

The exhibition theme has been conceived by the Babylon Young Associates – a group of
young creatives living locally, aged 18-25 years, who work with Babylon ARTS on projects, installations and community engagement via the arts.

Inspired by Nature is a Babylon ARTS project, in partnership with Ely Museum, RNIB and the National Trust’s Wicken Fen Nature Reserve, and has been made possible with the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, Babylon ARTS will deliver an 18-month programme developing creative approaches that facilitate connection and engagement with nature for people with low vision, children, young people and the wider public.

The deadline for entries for The Sensing Nature Challenges is Friday 1st December 2023.

Babylon ARTS will contact successful applicants by Monday 18th December if their work has been selected to be part of the Sensing Nature exhibition at Babylon Gallery next Spring.

Press release from Babylon ARTS