"The Marine Museum of Lost Potential is the only museum in the world dedicated to research into, the preservation of, and the occasional display of specimens of deep-sea creatures that were lost to the world before they could even be discovered. The museum supports scientific research into these lost species, determining how they lived and their qualities, characteristics and features. It records the potential they possessed that was never understood, and articulates what might have been, had they survived long enough to be discovered. The museum is also home to the Journal of Marine Lost Potential, the foremost publication in this field."

These exhibits from the Marine Museum of Lost Potential are outcomes of an ongoing collaboration between Julie and researcher, taxonomist and curator, Dr Tammy Horton and her team at the National Oceanography Centre and more recently also with Prof Marcel Jaspars and colleagues at the Marine Centre for Biodiscovery at the University of Aberdeen. The Museum will be developing further with the assistance of a grant from Arts Council, England.

The project was awarded an Honourable Mention at the Social Art Awards 2025 by the Institute for Art and Innovation Berlin. Singling out the work for its 'most speculative reflection' they praised the project as 'a poetic, speculative installation exploring ecological grief and biomedical ethics'.

Writing in the Corning Museum of Glass' New Glass Review 44, Natalie Melton, Executive Director of the Crafts Council UK says:

"The Marine Museum of Lost Potential... captured my imagination, drawing me into Light's underwater universe, and inspired a mournful sense of a wanton destruction of a planet that deserves better."