WATER WATER
COLDHARBOUR MILL 17th - 31st Oct 2026

A faboulous opportunity to ulitilse a heritage building, Coldharbour Mill Uffculme, Devon and the ongoing work of envrionmentally engaging visual arts practitioners. 

WATER WATER: @COLDHARBOURMILL Explore how water shapes our lives.

WATER WATER Explore how water shapes our lives. An opportunity to develop greater community engagement with ongoing creative arts practice, alongside other businesses working with water. A primary exposition experience in a spectacular watery, heritage venue, inviting visitors to develop understanding and valid relationships with water providers, water charities, points of action and consideration through creative exploration. A contemporary exhibition that is both informative and inspiring, including interactive workshops, talks and display.

Opportunity  to develop greater community engagement with  ongoing creative arts practice, alongside other businesses working with water. A primary exposition experience in a spectacular watery, heritage venue. Inviting visitors to develop understanding and valid relationships with water providers, water charities, through creative exploration. A contemporary exhibition, opportunity to buy from contemporary creative businesses, informative and inspiring, hopefully including interactive workshops, talks and display. 

This project is dependent on collaborative working – no funding has to date been secured for this project. 

A fabulous opportunity to utilise a heritage building, Coldharbour Mill in Uffculme, Devon, and the ongoing work of environmentally engaging creative practitioners. Together we can generate change. This is a collaborative project; thank you to everyone who helped make this project happen:

Venue:

Coldharbour Mill

Fox Gallery, Floor 4
17th – 31st October 2026

Uffculme, Collumpton, Devon EX15 3EE, 01884 840960
info@coldharbourmill.org.uk
https://www.coldharbourmill.org.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/coldharbourmill/

The Rivers Trust, Westcountry Rivers Trust and Connecting The Culm and South West Water – are all engaged with the river catchment the venue is connected to; each provides access, scientific information, ways of engaging with WATER.  

Invited Creatives:

Natalie Day Greshna Dibble
Duncan Hopkins
Caroline Lumb
Adam Morrigan
Princetown Press
Caroline Preston
Ruth Helen Smith
heart and wild – poetry
Two Rivers Paper

Makers of material culture whose work I admire, respect and want to share. The intention is enabling the voice of the creative, to work collectively and collaboratively to access a wider audience within a heritage venue and in print.

Thanks to Nathalie Assayag Eales for editing and publication support 

WATER WATER brings together eco-conscious creative businesses in an interactive arts experience to nurture our relationship with water. Humans need water; it is elemental to our existence, our connection to it is essential. Waterways face great pressures from pollutants, extraction and environmental change, but there is hope. People are waking up to how precious water is. Water Water at Coldharbour Mill, a publicly accessible heritage building in Devon, October 2026: visitors can explore how water shapes our lives, and how creativity can help shape a new life for water.

WHY?
WATER WATER brings together eco-conscious creative businesses in an interactive arts experience to nurture our relationship with water. Humans need water; it is elemental to our existence, our connection to it is essential. Waterways face great pressures from pollutants, extraction and environmental change, but there is hope. People are waking up to how precious water is. Water Water at Coldharbour Mill, a publicly accessible heritage building in Devon, October 2026: visitors can explore how water shapes our lives, and how creativity can help shape a new life for water.