STUDENTS are creating art on a sea wall in a call for action ahead of a climate conference later this week.

Second year graphic design students from the University of Brighton will produce 100 climate-related art works at Brighton Marina today to provide a "poignant, positive and provocative public display" ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, which begins on Sunday.

The images will be created in an eco-friendly manner, using only sea water and paint made from chalk.

Nick Gant, sustainable communities lead at the university's centre for arts and wellbeing, said: "By just using paint made from the abundant chalk and jet washing using the sea water, we hope to make a positive impact to the community that walk in this amazing space, while having no impact on the environment.

"In a very literal and physical way, I think the Marina captures our relationship to the environment around us, so we are really pleased to be able to enable our students from diverse places to engage with it and the wider community through meaningful expression in these challenging times."

Painting on the wall started from 10am and is supported by Brighton Marina and the City Council.

Nick also offered his thanks to Brighton Marina for "providing a really poignant and unorthodox venue for our semi-permanent exhibition of what are hopefully thoughtful words that inspire and provoke reflection on the importance of this event and our individual responses to the challenge we face."

The artwork comes days before world leaders are set to meet at a climate conference in Glasgow to agree measures to reduce carbon emissions.

Activists from Extinction Rebellion set off from Brighton last Sunday on a 500-mile cycle to the summit to call for greater action to tackle the climate emergency, with some activists from the group also occupying the UK's largest oil refinery in Hampshire this morning.

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