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 o-collective 'the return of hms challenger'
 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Voyage of discovery. On 21 December 1872, the HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth on a three-year voyage of marine exploration. On 30 June 2007 three emerging artists – members of the O-Collective - embarked on their own adventure, that of transforming a little gallery space in Folkestone. Part parlor and part scientific display space, the former B&B now houses organic watercolour studies by Ceci Lombardi that look as if they have been dragged up from the bottom of the ocean. Victoria Foster heightens the submarine theme, her handcrafted porcelain barnacles taking up residence in any nook and cranny, invading the space with their mouldy crust. Far more clinical is Mark Hayward's 11-part screenprint presenting the cohesive progression of 19th-century ship design. With his animation showreel - Boom! Boom! Boom! being the most humorous – all that is needed is a stick of rock and windswept hair for the perfect English seaside experience. The Return of HMS Challenger is at B&B Project Space and Gallery, Folkestone, until 12 July 07.
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