Trolley Reef
Permanent installation (2020-….)
Cementfields /Whitstable Biennale

Trolley Reef is a long term project and artwork to create a new oyster reef in North Kent, using supermarket trolleys. 

The idea plays with the common sight of seeing the legs of dumped trolleys sticking up out of our waterways, something which has become a symbol of society’s disconnect and disregard for nature. Supermarket trolleys are also the end point of an industrial and global agricultural system that is destroying ecosystems worldwide. Trolley Reef will turn these negative connotations into a positive by taking discarded trolleys and turning them into a new oyster reef.

The trolleys will be used in the same way as the traditional oyster culture cages which grow new reefs, holding the oysters while they grow.  This new reef will actively help to create a new ecosystem, and build new relationships between people and ecology.

https://cementfields.org/projects/something-son-trolley-reef/