Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change

Fundación Canal, Madrid

7 February - 27 April 2008

In partnership with the Barbican Art Gallery, International Programme

Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey, Kathy Barber, David Buckland, Peter Clegg, Siobhan Davies, Gautier Deblonde, Max Eastley, Nick Edwards, Antony Gormley, Alex Hartley, David Hinton, Gary Hume, Ian McEwan, Michèle Noach, Rachel Whiteread

Cape Farewell's Art & Climate Change exhibition, was first shown at the Natural History Museum in London, May to September 2006. It began its international tour in February 2008, showing at the Fundacion Canal Madrid, a new space in Madrid’s cultural quarter.  Celebrated in the national press and media, the show was a great success.

The exhibition features Stranded, Heather Ackroyd & 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.