OPEN Eco

Photo Fringe invited artists to propose a single image to engage audiences and help us imagine a greener, fairer world. Artists were asked to respond to the question “How can photography make a difference to the climate crisis?"

The resulting outdoor exhibition can be found on Worthing Seafront until the end of April 2023.

Sponsored by Metro Imaging Ltd with funding from Arts Council England National Lottery Project Fund and Worthing Borough Council.

Artist biography


Images from the following twenty artists were selected through open call:

Rhiannon Adam
Louise Beer
Anne Marie Briscombe
Bill Brooks
Chan Hong Yui Clement
Alex Currie
Sarah Grounds
Frankie Knight
Olana Light
Laurene Bois-Mariage
Mark O'Halleron
Eunice Pais
Gwen Riley Jones
Alex Robertson
Grant Simon Rogers
Francesco Russo
Scott Stevens
John Walmsley
Mandy Williams
Elizabeth Woodger


The selection panel for the Photo Fringe OPEN Eco was Steve Macleod director of Metro Imaging; Elizabeth Grieve from Land Art Agency and artist Emma Critchley.


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Worthing Seafront
Marine Parade
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14 October–29 April

OPEN Eco

Bill Brooks, The Wrath of Eleanor, Storm Eleanor, Newhaven Harbour, 2018

Scott Stevens, Steadfast, 2022

Louise Beer, Apogee Earth, Earth as a Planetary Landscape, 2021

Mandy Williams, Skeletal Forest, 2018

Anne-Marie Briscombe, Delroy, The Volunteer Beekeeper, Bees (and other species), 2022

Grant Simon Rogers, Goats Beard and Larks Song, 2022

John Walmsley, Steelworks, Ebbw Vale, Wales, 1971

Sarah Grounds, One Planet Development – scything on a spring morning at Criafolen, 2021

Mark O’Halleron, Fittleworth, Still Waters, 149 Spills, 2,693 Hours, 2022

Francesco Russo, Santa Cruz del Islote, 2022

Alex Currie, Birling Gap, East Dean, 2014

Chan Hong Yui Clement, Hing Man Estate, Chai Wan, Hong Kong, from the series Z-Axis, 2014

Olana Light, Searching For A Place To Belong, 2022

Eunice Pais, Co-existence, The Celestials, 2022

Elizabeth Woodger, Untitled image from the series Diagenesis, 2020

Laurene Bois-Mariage, Little Ecological Fable – The Forest #1, 2022 (In progress)

Frankie Knight, Molly and Maisie /// Tucked Dots Dating, Losing a Landscape: Havant Thicket Reservoir, 2021

Gwen Riley Jones, Daniel – Planting for the Planet co-created with Daniel and a group of young people from Action for Conservation in collaboration with RHS Communities and University of Salford Art Collection, 2022

Rhiannon Adam, Callum and Kai, The Rift, 2018 – Present

Alex Robertson, Rebel For Life, Re-Visiting the XR Gaze, 2021 – ongoing