Intervention

Intervention is an elegy to Earth’s endangered freshwater systems. The central waterway, choked and deadened, no longer serves as a source of life but a mirror to our failure: a poisoned artery within a dying body. It suggests that humanity’s insatiable thirst for industrial progress, symbolised by the looming, indistinct factories, has come at the cost of the very waters that once sustained us. This work sits within the lineage of environmental art, evoking the apocalyptic Romanticism of painters like John Martin, yet filtered through a contemporary ecological lens. Intervention offers both a visual warning and a moment of sublime awe: the beam of light suggests a turning point, a possible ‘intervention,’ whether environmental, spiritual, or otherworldly in origin. It could be the Earth’s final, furious gasp, or a divine reckoning. Intervention has won an open call art prize and was exhibited in Chalk Farm, London in May 2025.