In ‘Tilda Swims the Channel', Chudamani Clowes reimagines the sea – that vast threshold between safety and uncertainty. Through the act of passage across the sea she reflects on migration, ecological precarity and the enduring legacies of empire. Like coral – millions of years old and continuously propagating through the currents – people too have always moved in search of safety and sustenance. Today these movements are charged with a new urgency; political instability, economic inequalities and the intensifying crisis of climate change. Working with layered translucent materials Clowes’s practice confronts these realities directly, holding in tension the great beauty of the seas as a source of hope and its simultaneous role as a site of loss for the many migrants that embark on a perilous journey.