Sea Cred: An artwork by HRH Prince Nikolaos created from Ocean Plastic

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Sea Cred is on view at the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago through April 15, 2023

 
 
 
 
 

An accomplished photographer who has exhibited his work internationally since 2015, Prince Nikolaos has 19 new works in the current National Hellenic Museum (NHM) exhibition titled Resilience, which explores Greece’s strong relationship with nature including the olive tree, grapevines and the sea.

A central piece of the exhibition is a collaboration between Prince Nikolaus and Parley, a photographic mosaic titled Sea Cred raising awareness of the plastic pollution of the oceans and our bodies. The artwork is divided and printed onto 272 credit cards made of Parley Ocean Plastic®, created from upcycled plastic intercepted from remote islands, marine habitats and coastal communities. The cards were developed with Parley partner Giesecke+Devrient (G+D).

Sea Cred is inspired by the fact that humans could be consuming an average of 5 grams of plastic every week, the equivalent weight of a credit card, according to a 2019 University of Newcastle study commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. The Resilience exhibition also features the North American premiere of Together, an immersive scene of life-size illuminated, embracing olive trees accompanied by sounds of Greek nature, which first premiered at the London Design Biennale in 2021.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

More from Resilience

 

Seaing Green in the Resilience exhibition

Resilience exhibition by HRH Prince Nikolaos

Together in the Resilience exhibition

Sanity in the Resilience exhibition

 
 

Photography Courtesy of Elios Photography ©2022

 
 
 
 

Resilience by HRH Prince Nikolaos will be exhibited at the National Hellenic Museum from September 16 through April 15, 2023

 
 
 
 
 
 

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