Artists — eleven shown since 2024, one to come

Maren Oduya makes work from what water leaves behind: salt crusts, tide stains, the weight of wet rope. She grew up two streets from Merrow Quay and still works in a former net loft on the harbour.

She trained as a plasterer before she studied painting, and the two trades never separated. Her canvases are unprimed linen soaked in harbour water and left to dry flat for weeks, so that salt builds up in bands along the weave. Her objects are cast in the same lime plaster that lines the old sheds.

Slack Water is her first solo exhibition in Port Alder and the largest showing of her work so far. The nine works were made for Shed 3 and hung on its 1953 flood line at her request.