Tam Dudley

YEAR 3 - AWARD WINNER

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART

“One of the greatest threats to the survival of the Atlantic salmon is not climate change, pollution, or aquaculture alone, but our collective lack of awareness. Set on the River Nevis, the project seeks to confront this through a sensory, emotional, and educational journey.

The first pavilion - a corbelled cork structure - invites visitors to remove their shoes and wade barefoot through the cold river, immersing themselves in the rivers physical and emotional sensations, mirroring a salmon’s upstream struggle. The path then leads to a timber pavilion, wrapped in hand-tied threads that decay over time, leaving only its skeletal “ribs” - an unsettling, eerie reflection of the salmon run’s decay.”