Never at Sea Exhibition

Two years in the making, Never at Sea is a collaboration with Kate McMillan, Artist and Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, world-renowned experimental composer Cat Hope, contemporary choreographer Sivan Rubinstein and the Refugee Council’s Lewisham Refugee Resettlement Project.

Never at Sea responds to the history and location of St Mary le Strand church as a site where grief,
loss and transcendence is contained within the rituals of religious beliefs. The exhibition,
performances, talk and symposium extend the purpose of the space to encapsulate secular
experiences of erosion and loss, focusing on the grief of forced migration and climate change.

Never at Sea is a nuanced project which provides an alternative to the culture wars by engendering
experiences of empathy and abstraction. It reminds us that the narratives of loss and journey are not
political, but timeless stories that have been embedded within cultural life for thousands of years.