Kittiwake hotel+

It reflects on the architecture that arises from ecological compensation, and asks how a ‘marine hotel’ could be designed with all ocean life in mind.

Arieh Frosh and Ed Compson are artists who work collaboratively on socially engaged, technologically-driven projects. Since 2020, their ongoing series of artworks, workshops, and research experiments have involved technologies that might only become visual through translation, from seabed scanning, to electromagnetic listening, to recording wind speed.

Their recent work engages with oceanic and North Sea environments, exploring how ecological and technological systems meet. Through fieldwork and dialogues with marine scientists, archaeologists and energy workers, they examine how offshore infrastructures, marine ecologies and submerged histories shape one another. Their projects often create participatory spaces for imagining marine coexistence, questioning our relationship to energy structures that are seen daily on the horizon.

From 2023-2025 they were East Gallery Fellows at Norwich University of the Arts. They researched how the meeting of contemporary offshore wind turbines with the geological history of Doggerland could be a tool to creatively explore the historical, cultural, and political narratives surrounding wind energy and oceanic thinking.

Between them, they have exhibited at sites including Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing; Ginny on Frederick, London; Plicnik Space Initiative, London, and the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich.

Hotel Kittiwake+ is supported by TIDAL ArtS, a project offering grants to artists, collectives, and creatives to support the European Union’s Mission to Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030.