THE PROJECT
Ocean Champion is a long term multidisciplinary artistic project exploring the ecology of the sea, and mankind’s relationship towards it.
With over two decades of Linda Lieberman’s work, the project is reflecting on society’s intimate connection with the ocean.
OCEANIC MUNDI
This work is a representation of the overwhelming and complex issues affecting our oceans and seas. It is mankind’s responsibility to nurture and take care.
Mixed medium: Tar, oil paint, photograph, coral, and plastic.
THE HERO’S JOURNEY
Based on the Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell, the project is split into 7 stages:
1. Beach memories
2. The call
3. Transit
4. Chaos
5. Vision
6. Shift
7. Ocean Champion
Listen to ocean champions
Ansel Wong CBE Culture & Activism
Ansel Wong CBE is a Trinidadian cultural and political activist, who has been influential in many organizations particularly in the black community in the UK, where he has been based since the 1960s.
He is the former Chair of the Notting Hill Carnival Board and founder of Elimu Mas Band. He is also an educationist and academic, and in a wide-ranging career has worked at senior levels in various organizations in the public and charitable sectors, including with the Windrush Foundation established in 1996 by Arthur Torrington.
Carlos Magdalena Nature & Conservation
Carlos Magdalena is Botanical Horticulturist in the Tropical Nursery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an international lecturer, and Chairman of the International Waterlily & Water Gardens Society.He is renowned for his unique skills as a plant propagator who is saving the world’s rarest plants, even earning him the title The Plant Messiah, after successfully bringing species back from the brink of extinction.
Now he’s here to spread the gospel. His debut, The Plant Messiah, is the inspirational story of a man who has devoted – and risked – his life to save incredible species, all in the name of making this Earth a greener and happier place. It was published by Penguin in 2018
Gledys Ibarra Performing & Helping Minorities
Gledys Ibarra Is a former Afro-Venezuelan model and actress.
With more than 40 years of artistic career in television and theatre, she is known for participating in multiple successful soap operas.
She was the first woman of African descent to star in a soap opera in Venezuela, becoming a television icon.
Currently, she is the director of The Latin Stage, a Spanish language theatre company in the city of London where she has been awarded several times for her work.