FLOAT exhibition

Photographer - ©Susanne Hakuba

FLOAT  

Jellyfish Cyanotypes 

First exhibited at Joseph Wales Studios, Margate 
16-26 October 2025 

These works were created from washed-up jellyfish collected from north Thanet’s shoreline and first shown as part of FLOAT at the Joseph Wales Studios in Margate, curated by Alice Herrick. The exhibition, presented alongside artists Pippa Darbyshire and Susanne Hakuba, reflected their shared connection to the sea and together forms a quiet meditation on movement and impermanence, fragility and endurance.

For Float, Elizabeth presents a series of cyanotypes made from jellyfish found washed up along her local shoreline. During the summer of ‘25, she regularly combed the beaches, searching for these ethereal seasonal visitors left behind by the tide. Each jellyfish was carefully collected and used to create a unique photogram, its fragile form preserved through sunlight, iron salts and time. The resulting works hold the trace of a once-living body, transformed into luminous blue shadows on paper.  The jellyfish stand as emblems of fragility and endurance, reminders of the shifting balance between life, loss and the sea’s continual motion. 

Each work is titled with the What3Words location where the jellyfish was found, a precise three-word code that anchors the moment of discovery to a single point on the map. These coordinates act as spatial anchors, fixing the transient and the serendipitous to the geography of the shore forming a poetic cartography of Margate’s coast.