The Museum of Underwater Art (MOUA) is a globally-significant asset to Townsville North Queensland and the surrounding regions and more broadly to Queensland and Australia. As the only underwater art museum and the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, MOUA will act to highlight reef conservation, restoration and education on a global scale. Located in the central part of the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Townsville, MOUA is a series of installations by the world’s leading underwater sculptor – Jason deCaires Taylor.
The Museum exhibits the incredible biodiversity of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The only underwater art museum, this Museum features Jason deCaires Taylor’s submerged sculptural brilliance.
An environmentalist, a sculptor, and a professional underwater photographer, Jason deCaires Taylor was born in 1974, and graduated from the London Institute of Arts in 1998 with a BA Honours in Sculpture. His permanent site-specific works span over numerous continents and widely explore submerged and tidal marine environments. Over the past 10 years Taylor has created several large-scale underwater “Museums” and “Sculpture Parks”, with collections of over 850 life-size public works.
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The world’s leading underwater sculptor, Jason’s works include the MUSA underwater museum in Mexico, which has reached a global audience of over 1 billion people. Jason’s projects focuses to open debate about our relationship to our seas and highlight the importance of preserving them. He believes being underwater is a deeply personal, emancipating and otherworldly experience. Through his work, Jason hopes to usher in a new era of culturally and environmentally aware tourism with the goal that more tourists will see our natural wonders as breathing ecosystems. Jason says once his works are submerged they no longer belong to him – they belong to the ocean and all the creatures that live there.
