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• In the vibrant ebb and flow of Glasgow’s Byres Road, a new residency of snorkelling artists shines a light on the hidden deep.
• This exhibition showcases their diverse range of multimedia artworks, from illustration and printmaking to audio recordings of underwater seascapes and animation.

• Installation artist Vicki Fleck’s work uses a variety of media while “exploring the fluid, spongy and colourful landscape” underwater.
• She says she has been particularly inspired by the horizonless perspective of the snorkeller, “where everything comes up and towards”.

Internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and scientific illustrator Rachel Brooks’s detailed ink pieces capture the often-overlooked marine life found in UK coastal waters, while drawing on her expertise in zoology and marine biology.

• This residency has also inspired poems and storytelling, exhibited with QR codes that direct people to podcasts and compositions by some participants.
• Composer and sound artist Nicolette MacLeod creates work that invites people to listen to a series of compositions and podcast episodes made in response to the residency experience.

Hope spots

• The goal is to create a global network of hope spots, as far flung as the Galápagos and the Great Barrier Reef, that together help protect the hugely unexplored, yet fragile, ocean habitats beneath the waves.
• The Argyll Coast and Islands Hope Spot, on the west coast, is the first in Scotland and the only designated hope spot in UK coastal waters.

These residencies give artists access to new pastures of inspiration and discovery. By collaborating with marine scientists during this experience, the artists are encouraged to bring the mysteries and beauty of the largely unseen underwater worlds to a larger public. This can enlighten and educate people about the critical role that the ocean and its teeming-yet-threatened populations play in our own survival.

Visual storytelling

• Using visual narratives to communicate information can help demystify and explain sometimes complex, inaccessible and unfathomable places and lifeforms that most people would not normally have access to, or knowledge of.
• Visual narratives have a potency that supersedes textual formats.

• This form of storytelling presents information, data and ideas in a more accessible, visual context that allows more people to see the bigger picture.
• It can be hard for people to connect with the sea other than by looking out over its seemingly endless surface.
• But art initiatives can unite people to engage with causes that might otherwise escape their notice, because visual storytelling brings this subject matter closer to home.

Chris Mackenzie does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• Japan is one of the first countries where MPay has launched cross-border payment services through Alipay+ and is also one of the favorite travel destinations for residents of Macao.
• Currently, people from Macao can use MPay to make purchases at cooperating stores in Japan, settle in MOP, and enjoy preferential exchange rates.
• According to statistics, in the first quarter of 2024, MPay's transaction volume and number of transactions in Japan increased by over 200% respectively compared to the fourth quarter of 2023.
• By working with these partners, Alipay+ provides global tourists with the same seamless digital payment experience they enjoy in their own markets.

• Baloise’s Board of Directors encourages shareholders to vote and recommends zCapital’s proposals be rejected.
• The Board offers the prospect to amend the corresponding provisions of the articles of association at the 2025 General Meeting.
• On the 21st of February 2024, asset manager zCapital has submitted proposals to the Board of Directors, according to which the registration and voting rights restriction in the articles of associations is to be lifted.
• In preparation for this statement, the Board of Directors has initiated the discussion with shareholders and other stakeholders.

• MONTRÉAL, April 8, 2024 /CNW/ - The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) is proud to unveil its latest exhibition, femmes volcans forêts torrents.
• Organized by curator Marie-Eve Beaupré, femmes volcans forêts torrents invites us to think about the hierarchized relationship between nature and "the living," through a variety of media.
• The symposium is presented in conjunction with the exhibition femmes volcans forêts torrents.
• The exhibition femmes volcans forêts torrents is presented at the MAC's temporary Place Ville Marie location, at the corner of Mansfield and Cathcart streets.