Past Exhibitions & Events

• Southbank Centre

  Artist in Residence

  In August 2007 Cape Farewell began a three year artists residency at the Southbank Centre, where we operated as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre's creative climate change initiatives.
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• SHIFT Festival

  January 2010

  Southbank Centre played host to Cape Farewell's SHIFT Festival, a stimulating, provocative and energising programme of cultural events inspired by Cape Farewell’s expeditions to The High Arctic and Andes in Peru. The centrepiece of the festival was two concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday 29 and Sat 30 January.
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• Art & Climate Change

  Toured 2006 - 2010

  Cape Farewell's Art & Climate Change exhibition, created in partnership with the Natural History Museum in 2006, was a free exhibition of contemporary art, designed to deepen our understanding of climate change. It toured widely over four years, visiting London, Liverpool, Hamburg, Madrid, Tokyo and Michigan.
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• Earth: Art of a changing world

  3 Dec 2009 - 31 Jan 2010

  The Royal Academy of Arts presented Earth: Art of a changing world, an exhibition co-curated by David Buckland and part of the GSK Contemporary season.
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• Rome Film Festival

  October 2009

  An exhibition of Cape Farewell artworks was presented at the 2009 Rome Film Festival. Alongside the exhibition, were several Cape Farewell cafe encounters - with voyagers including Jarvis Cocker and Siobhan Davies in conversation with Italian guests discussing education, architecture, film, music and art.

• Latitude Festival

  July 2009

  A green field, a green event; Cape Farewell made its first appearance at Latitude, the gloriously positioned music and arts festival on the Sunrise Coast of Suffolk in 2009. Cape Farewell's David Buckland was joined by comedian Marcus Brigstocke, beat-boxer Shlomo and special guest Jarvis Cocker.

• Late at Tate

  February 2009

  Cape Farewell inhabited Tate Britain as part of their Late at Tate series, exploring sublime environments and artistic responses to climate change. The night of discussion, debate, screenings, sound and live music also featured Greenhouse Gas, an installation on Chelsea College of Art & Design’s Parade Ground.

• Kaai Theatre, Brussels

  January 2009

  In January 2009 Cape Farewell presented a day of discussion and artworks as part of a climate event Burning Ice - Art & Climate Change at the Kaai Theatre in Brussels, with artists David Buckland, Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey discussing questions posed by the artistic director of the Kaai Theatre Guy Gypsens.

• Envisioning Change - UN Environment Programme

  June 2007 to Sept 2008

  A selection of Cape Farewell artworks, including Endangered Species by Siobhan Davies, toured with the Natural World Museum and United Nations Environment Programme exhibition Envisioning Change to Oslo, Brussels, Monaco and Chicago.
  

• Chicago Humanities Festival

  November 2007

  The stunning Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park offered a perfect backdrop to the unique Cape Farewell collaboration between sound artist Max Eastley and video artist David Buckland, when Cape Farewell presented ARCTIC at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2007.

• Late Night at Whitechapel

  Friday, 11 May 2007

  As part of Whitechapel's Late Night Fridays series Cape Farewell presented the sell out Earth, Wind and Fire - a night of new songs, performances, artworks and information prompted by the urgency of climate change.

• The Ice Garden

  December 2005

  Cape Farewell's first exhibition, The Ice Garden, presented sound, light, text and sculptural installations by artists inspired by their voyages with Cape Farewell, in the Clarendon Quad in front of the Bodleian Library.