News and Events
RPS Awards Shortlist
Category: News Posted: 02 May 2012
Tim Sutton’s Unplugged, Winning the Clay has been shortlisted for an RPS Award
Carbon 12 Exhibition
Category: Events Posted: 10 April 2012
Save the Date: Cape Farewell's Carbon 12 exhibition opens on 3 May in Paris. It's an exciting mix of art commissions, with the artists working in close relationship with scientists. The exhibition runs 4 May - 16 September 2012 at the Espace Foundation EDF.
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Poetry by Nick Drake
Category: News Posted: 29 March 2012
Acclaimed author and Cape Farwell voyagers Nick Drake, launches his new collection of poetry, The Farewell Glacier. The poems grew out of his journey to the Arctic. 
Nature Journal
Category: News Posted: 28 February 2012
David Buckland's feature article 'Climate is Culture' has been published in the March issue of Nature Climate Change. Read about how Cape Farewell's approach has relevance to the discussion about our future. 
Goodbye Arctic by Marina Moskvina
Category: News Posted: 27 February 2012
Russian novelist Marina Moskvina has just published her book on the 2010 Arctic Expedition with Cape Farewell. Illustrated by Leonid Tishkov, the book captures the voyage and questions the future of the Arctic. 
Without Boats, Dreams Dry Up
Category: News Posted: 20 February 2012
An exhibition of 20 emerging artists and designers who have participated in Cape Farewell's SHORTCOURSE / UK; a 3-day urban expedition in London. Exhibition runs 24 Feb to 29 March. 
U-n-f-o-l-d in Liverpool
Category: News Posted: 14 February 2012
Our exquisite exhibition U-n-f-o-l-d is back in the UK and opens on 8 March at John Moores University in Liverpool. If you miss the opening, come to the closing event on 24 April, which starts off the next SHORTCOURSE/UK expedition.
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Reality of Change
Category: News Posted: 09 February 2012
On 15 March, together with TckTckTck and the UK Youth Climate Coalition, Cape Farewell invites you to a ‘Reality of Change’ evening at the Dana Centre, with architect Sunand Prasad, campaigner Martin Kirk and others who will present and discuss ideas around (climate) change.
HEVVA! HEVVA!
Category: News Posted: 08 February 2012
HEVVA! HEVVA! presents artwork by students of University College Falmouth who have participated in Cape Farewell's SHORTCOURSE/UK. Exhibition runs at the Eden Project from 2 to 12 April 2012. 
The Arctic Poppy Chronicles
Category: News Posted: 07 February 2012
Michèle Noach presents the outcome of her Slow Art Research Project with a new exhibition and book at the Eden Project, opening on 18 April 2012. 
Sea Change 2012 Programme
Category: Events Posted: 20 January 2012
Cape Farewell’s Sea Change is a four-year programme of research and making across Scotland’s western and northern isles. In 2012-13, artists will work with local communities and scientists across the islands and on the mainland to produce workshops, work-in-progress presentations and exhibitions of new work across all art forms. Click to view featured Sea Change 2012 projects.
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Things Unspoken
Category: Events Posted: 18 January 2012
Anne Bevan and Andrea Roe exhibit works at the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London. Exhibition runs 23 May – 13 July 2012.
Ditty Boxes
Category: Events Posted: 17 January 2012
Ditty Boxes is installation based on the hand-made sailors’ boxes designed to hold treasured possessions on hazardous ocean voyages, at the Shetland Museum 7 - 28 August 2012.
Na Fir Chlis / Aurora Borealis
Category: Events Posted: 16 January 2012
Rody Gorman presents a collection of Gaelic poems inspired by Cape Farewell’s Scottish Islands Expedition at SAMS Festival of the Sea, Oban, 21 May. Or if you miss the festival see them at An Tobar, Mull, 21 - 24 June.
Water Works
Category: Events Posted: 15 January 2012
Indian environmental artist Atul Bhalla takes up a residency at Taigh Chearsabhagh this May, developing and presenting a series of video works on water as a resource.
Bird Yarns
Category: Events Posted: 14 January 2012
Bird Yarns brings Mull’s community of knitters together with textile artist Deirdre Nelson in an exhibition at An Tobar, Mull, 21 - 24 June. Followed by Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh this August. 
Pop-up Café
Category: Events Posted: 12 January 2012
Celebrity chef Oliver Rowe cooks local produce in a Pop-up café on Tobermory Beach this summer, 21 - 24 June.
Barra Maps
Category: Events Posted: 11 January 2012
Digital mapping project exploring the relationship between language and landforms, and the intimate relationship between people and place, opens this July at Kisimul Castle, Barra.
‘Particle’ (Things Unseen)
Category: Events Posted: 10 January 2012
Solo exhibition by Anne Bevan with Shetland Arts (Bonhoga Gallery) and the Shetland Museum and Archive (Pier Store). Exhibition runs 3 August - 16 September 2012.
Air falbh leis na h-eòin / Away with the Birds
Category: Events Posted: 09 January 2012
Away with the Birds, a performance for multiple voices by composer and artist Hanna Tuulikki, to be presented at Dovecot Studios this September.
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