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Cape Farewell international touring exhibition Art & Climate Change

Cape Farewell brings artists, scientists and educators together to raise awareness about climate change. Created by artist David Buckland in 2001, Cape Farewell has led five expeditions to the High Arctic; the frontline of climate change. Artists that have joined the expeditions include Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey, Siobhan Davies, Gary Hume, writers Ian McEwan and Vikram Seth, comedian Marcus Brigstocke and musician Liam Frost.  In September 2007, Cape Farewell launched their most ambitious voyage yet, an epic journey covering 1,600 nautical miles and crossing the Greenland Sea.
 
From these expeditions has sprung an extraordinary body of artwork, The Art & Climate Change Exhibition (more below), a film co-produced by the BBC; Art from a Changing Arctic, and now seen internationally by a worldwide audience of over 12 million people. 
 
Cape Farewell has also launched its first major book title; Burning Ice, the CD ARCTIC featuring sounds recorded by Max Eastley in the Arctic, educational resources for GCSE Geography and Science and a UN award-winning website.  In 2007 Cape Farewell was invited by artistic director of the Southbank Centre, Jude Kelly to become resident artists for three years, operating as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre’s creative climate change initiatives.  In December 2007, Cape Farewell also began a long-term partnership with the Eden Project in Cornwall. The project is widely acknowledged to be the most significant sustained artistic response to climate change anywhere in the world.

David Buckland
Ice Texts, 2004–2005
 
Cape Farewell exhibition Art & Climate Change travels to Fundación Canal, Madrid
 
Cape Farewell's Art & Climate Change was shown in the UK at the Natural History Museum, London and Liverpool Biennial in 2006 and at Kampnagel, Hamburg in 2007 is beginning its international tour with the Barbican Art Gallery in February 2008 opening at the Fundación Canal, Madrid on the 6 February.  

Siobhan Davies
Endangered Species, 2006, (still)

The show features Stranded, Heather Ackryod & Dan Harvey’s 6-metre long crystal-encrusted Minke whale skeleton; End of Ice, David Buckland’s 28' video projection of the demise of an iceberg; Nymark (Undiscovered Island), Alex Hartley’s topographically inspired photographic installation of his 'new' Arctic island and Siobhan Davies’ ephemeral projection of a lone dancer, Endangered Species. 

Following this display, Cape Farewell will continue working with the Barbican Art Gallery, Touring Department to bring the exhibition to a truly international audience.
 
For more information on the international tour of Art & Climate Change exhibition please visit:
 
www.capefarewell.com | www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/touring-exhibitions

(Posted 1 April 2008)

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