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CARBON 12

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 19 February 2012

Carbon 12 When in Paris: The Carbon 12 exhibition runs to 16 September 2012, an exciting mix of art commissions and science.

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U-n-f-o-l-d

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 01 February 2010

Cape Farewells Unfold exhibition Our exquisite exhibition U-n-f-o-l-d is just taking a break but will be on tour again soon. 

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Summer 2011 at Eden

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 01 February 2010

Unplugged at Eden See what happened with Unplugged and Bī-ŏt'ĭk at Eden this summer.

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SHIFT Festival

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 01 February 2010

In January 2010, Southbank Centre played host to Cape Farewell's SHIFT festival which saw Marcus Brigstocke sharing a stage with Ed Milliband, electric performances from KT Tunstall, Graham Coxon, Robyn Hitchcock, Shlomo, Max Eastley, Liam Frost and others.

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Earth: Art of a changing world

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 02 November 2009

Earth: Art of a changing world

3 December 2009 - 31 January 2010

The Royal Academy of Arts

GSK Contemporary Season

The Royal Academy of Arts presented the second annual contemporary art season, GSK Contemporary at 6 Burlington Gardens. Opened in December 2009, Earth: Art of a changing world exhibited new and recent work from more than 30 leading international contemporary artists, including commissions and new works from the best emerging talent.

Recent debates have centred less on the possibility and more on the certainty and speed with which climate change will take place. As the debate has developed, so too has our approach to the future. Co-curated by Kathleen Soriano, Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy, David Buckland, Director of Cape Farewell, and, Edith Devaney, Royal Academy, the exhibition reflected the impact of the climate change debate on the practice of a broad range of contemporary artists across a wide variety of media.

Many of the artists featured actively engaged with the issue itself, working directly to transform the global scale of climate change into a human narrative. Others shown it to have a place, or to resonate, within their work. Earth interconnected ‘issue’ and ‘art’, and presenting works that were beautiful, powerful and thought-provoking. The exhibition built on the power of individual works to create an overall aesthetic, visual and experiential impact that explored some of the cultural impacts of climate change.

The exhibition introduced key elements that make up the natural world, and the activities that affect the planet’s fragile equilibrium. Works by artists including Ackroyd & Harvey, Spencer Finch, Mona Hatoum and Marcos Lutyens & Marianantoni, engaged with the earth, air, sky, nature and carbon elements to encourage a deeper consideration of our cultural relationship to the earth’s stability.

Artists such as Antti Laitinen and Edward Burtynsky  represented our contemporary world and invoked a dialogue around the perceived security of our existence.

At the centre of the show, a group of exhibits focused on the role of the artist in the cycle of human and cultural evolution – as communicator, reflector and interpreter of key issues of the day. Within this section artists such Sophie Calle, Lucy & Jorge Orta, Cornelia Parker, the poet Lemn Sissay and Shiro Takatani held up a mirror to our changing world, producing work that encourages us to examine the issues from a variety of angles, to reflect and question. Other works confronted the viewer with the consequences of human behaviour through natural disasters and physical collapse, counterpoising the beauty of the planet with the damage that is being inflicted upon it.

The exhibition concluded with works that presented a world of vision and of hope, but through the glass of reality. These works reflected notions of beauty and inspiration fundamentally re-defined by climate change. This subtle shift represented the first major change in our view of the world since the first ‘whole earth images’ emerged as photographs taken from Apollo 8 in 1968, an image that anchors our contemporary perception of the beauty and fragility of the earth that has germinated new notions of care and empathy for our habitat. Works by artists such as the writer, Ian McEwan, Mariele Neudecker and Emma Wieslander offered insight, vision and hope, responding powerfully to this cultural shift, some with a celebration of beauty and what we stand to lose. These artists approached this shift from various perspectives: some engaging with the rigour of scientific endeavour, others through the use of imagined worlds, film and music, delving into the emotional understanding of knowledge.

Find out more about the exhibiton at
www.royalacademy.org.uk/earth ›

Royal Academy of Arts - GSK Contemporary  GlaxoSmithKline

Latest News

RPS Awards Shortlist

RPS Awards Shortlist

Tim Sutton’s Unplugged, Winning the Clay has been shortlisted for an RPS Award

Carbon 12 Exhibition

Carbon 12 Exhibition

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. Find out more ›

Poetry by Nick Drake

Poetry by Nick Drake

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

Nature Journal

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

Goodbye Arctic by Marina Moskvina

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

Without Boats, Dreams Dry Up

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

U-n-f-o-l-d in Liverpool

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. Find out more ›

Reality of Change

Reality of Change

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.

400 Thousand Generations by Mariele Neudecker


Anthem at Eden

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 16 October 2009

Beth Derbyshire's Anthem opened the Winter Season of Cape Farewell events at Eden Project on 14 Nov. The exhibition continues to run daily in Eden's Mediterranean Biome until 9 Dec.

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Southbank Centre

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 17 April 2008

Cape Farewell at Southbank Centre

“Nothing is more important than our planet, and we all responsible for its welfare: we are already beginning to experience the catastrophic effects of ignorance. But statistics and constant messages of doom are not necessarily the best way to face these challenges. I asked Cape Farewell to join us as Artists in Residence because of the important and unique work they are doing in bringing together the artistic and scientific communities in order to address issues around climate change, in highly imaginative and thought-provoking ways. Their residency is part of our vision for Southbank Centre to become a place for debate through artistic encounter.”
Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre

Three Year Residency

August 2007 - July 2010

In August 2007, Cape Farewell began its three year artists residency at London's Southbank Centre. Cape Farewell operates as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre's creative climate change initiatives. Watch this space or sign up to the mailing list to receive details of future events at Southbank Centre.

Past Events

  • SHIFT Festival

    January 2010

    In January 2010, Southbank Centre played host to Cape Farewell's SHIFT festival, a stimulating, provocative and energising programme of climate-focused cultural events, featuring KT Tunstall, Robyn Hitchcock, Marcus Brigstocke and special guests.
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  • London Literature Festival

    11 July 2009

    Double Bill: short film by Lemn Sissay and panel discussion. Lemn Sissay presented the short film featuring his poem What If and discussed the making of the poem, climate change and his experience of the Arctic. David Lan and David Buckland discussed their dog sled expedition to Greenland's Liverpool coast in a panel discussion chaired by Ruth Little.

  • Tata Jagriti Yatra

    Dec 2008 - Jan 2009

    Vicky Long and a group drawn from the artists in residence at Southbank Centre joined the Tata Jagriti Yatra project - a journey made by train, circumnavigating the Indian subcontinent, with 350 18-25 year-old Indians selected for having proved an outstanding interest in entrepreneurialism.
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  • Uummannaq Day

    9 January 2009

    The most northerly settlement we visited during the 2008 Disko Bay expedition, Uummannaq is the hometown of our Inuit guide Ludvig, and home to 1400 people and 3000 howling dogs. Arctic voyagers Shlomo, Lemn Sissay and Quentin Cooper presented an evening of Arctic stories and performances inspired by Uummannaq and guided by local resident Ludvig Hammeken.

  • Slow Food Lunch Club

    2 May 2008

    During the Southbank Centre's Slow Food Market, Cape Farewell joined forces with the Slow Food London team to prepare a sustainable fish lunch.  Alongside delicious food and armed with eco-friendly marker pens, fellow lunchers scribbled thoughts onto table-cloths on the benefits of slowing things down. 

  • Christmas at Southbank

    Dec 2007 - Jan 2008

    Over the Christmas period a selection of Max Eastley’s Arctic sounds played in the Royal Festival Hall's ballroom as part of their Christmas installation. A collection of fairy tales read by resident artists at Southbank Centre featured a recording by Vicky Long of Oscar Wild's Selfish Giant - a cautionary tale about the need to care for each-other and the environment.

  • 2007 Expedition Portal

    September - October 2007

    Visitors to the Royal Festival Hall and Eden Project watched the 2007 voyages unfold via daily video reports, blogs, and images of the art, science and increasing effects of climate change in the Arctic. Graphic exhibitions and video portals followed the expeditions, mapping the journeys and providing a live link to the voyages. 
    2007 Expedition website ›

  • 2007 Voyages Launch

    9 September 2007

    Hosted by comedian Marcus Brigstocke, the 2007 expeditions were launched in the Royal Festival Hall with a special maritime send off for the students down the Thames. Musicians, singers, the Cape Farewell youth team and artists past and present were joined by hundreds of onlookers to celebrate the launch. 


Art and Climate Change

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 15 April 2008

Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change

London, Liverpool, Hamburg, Madrid, Tokyo, USA

2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2010

Ackroyd & 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, created in partnership with the Natural History Museum in 2006, presented contemporary art, designed to deepen our understanding of climate change. Originally shown in the Natural History Museum's Jerwood Gallery, the exhibition offered a unique insight into the experiences of artists and writers who have traveled to the High Arctic with Cape Farewell. The exhibition was shown as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2006, in Hamburg 2007, 2008 in Madrid and Tokyo and finally in 2010 at Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan. The Barbican Touring Ltd managed the exhibition’s international tour, bringing Art & Climate Change to a worldwide audience. The tour launched in February 2008 at the Fundacion Canal in Madrid, and with interest from a whole host of international venues toured the world for more than three years.

  • Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan

    31 Jan - 13 Jun 2010

    As part of the Artology series Art & Climate Change was shown at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan. To coincide with the exhibition, Cape Farewell Director, David Buckland took part in events across North America including The 10 in Toronto: the second in an international series of visioning sessions with ten leading figures in the climate change arena.
    cranbrookart.edu/museum ›

  • Miraikan, Tokyo

    5 Jul - 17 Aug 2008

    In 2008, with support from the British Council Tokyo, the exhibition was shown in Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation; the Mirakain. The opening on 5 July coincided with the G8 conference in Hokkaido and was attended by Sarah Brown. With an immense response in the national media and over 45,000 visitors the exhibition was a huge success in Japan.
    www.miraikan.jst.go.jp ›

  • Fundación Canal, Madrid

    7 Feb - 27 Apr 2008

    In partnership with the Barbican Touring Ltd Art & Climate Change began it's international tour in February 2008, showing at the Fundacion Canal, a new space in Madrid’s cultural quarter. Celebrated in the national press and media, the show was a great success.
    www.fundacioncanal.com ›

  • Kampnagel Cultural Centre, Hamburg

    21 Mar - 22 Apr 2007

    Art & Climate Change visited the vast industrial space of the Kampnagel Cultural Centre, in collaboration with the British Council, Germany. A series of artists' talks and events were held alongside the exhibition. At Hamburg's Planetarium Max Eastley performed ARCTIC and Westwerk hosted a new performance work by William Hunt. Following the G8 Summit  Cape Farewell and Tipping Point organised a climate change conference in Potsdam, the first of its kind in mainland Europe.
    www.kampnagel.de ›

  • Liverpool Biennial

    16 Sept - 26 Nov 2006

    For the Liverpool Biennial 2006, Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change brought together - for the first time - the Liverpool School of Art and Design, Walker Art Gallery, National Conservation Centre, Liverpool Cathedral and the Albert Dock, interweaving sculpture, photography, painting, video and sound within the city's historic and contemporary spaces.
    www.biennial.com ›

  • Natural History Museum, London

    3 Jun - 3 Sept 2006

    Created in partnership with the Natural History Museum in 2006 The Ship: The Art of Climate Change was shown in the museum's Jerwood Gallery, accompanied by Cape Farewell's first book Burning Ice. Related events include the Student Summit, aimed at improving awareness and inspiring advocacy in young adults, with speakers including Sir David King.
    www.nhm.ac.uk › 


About The Exhibition

Through photography, film and video, sound and painting each artwork is a personal response to the effects of changing weather patterns, disappearing ice, rising sea levels, alterations in biodiversity and the build-up of toxic chemicals in the seemingly pristine landscape of the Arctic.

For Stranded, Ackroyd & Harvey retrieved the bones from a carcass of a minke whale beached near Skegness. Creating a 6 metre long sculpture using the entire whale skeleton they applied a special crystallisation process encrusting the bones with alum crystals. In the gallery the sculpture is displayed on a low illuminated plinth. The precious fragility of the sculpture enhances the importance of the whale and how it acts as a barometer in a complex marine environment.

Working with fashion designer Jonathan Saunders, Siobhan Davies created a projection, Endangered Species. A tiny woman dances gracefully inside a museum display case, her movements exaggerated by a costume of long bending rods that increase in number as her dance progresses. Whilst at first they liberate by extending the boundaries of her body, the many rods eventually restrict and finally extinguish her small life form.

David Buckland exhibited his glacial Ice Texts alongside The End of Ice - a large-scale video projection of the 42-minute demise of an iceberg.

Nymark (Undiscovered Island), Alex Hartley photographic piece echoed the journeys of the early Arctic explorers in describing the process of finding and naming a 'new' island; one only uncovered in the last five years by a retreating glacier. The Svalbard Series, Gautier Deblonde's photo-essay documents the stark vagaries of human existence in the High Arctic.

Other works included photographic representation of Antony Gormley and Peter Clegg's Three Made Places , an ice work created in the High Arctic, and Gary Hume's Hermaphrodite Polar Bear. Resonating eerily through the gallery space was Ice Field, Max Eastley's soundwork of cracking, melting ice.


Eden Project Collaboration

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 15 April 2008

Cape Farewell | Eden Project Collaboration

“To face the challenges ahead we need the best of our imagination and creativity, our technology and science, our humanity and vision. There are many synergies between the Cape Farewell and Eden Projects: both care deeply about our planet and look for ways to work with artists, scientists, educators, communicators and people from all walks of life to help create a brighter future. We like to show what individuals can achieve by working together and with the grain of nature. The Cape Farewell project is a wonderful example of how to explore issues and initiate discussions around climate change in an engaging, compelling and moving way, which is also positive and forward thinking.”
Tim Smit, CEO Eden Project

The Cape Farewell | Eden Project Collaboration is an exciting venture which brings Cape Farewell's experiences in the Arctic and the Andes to Cornwall. At the same time the collaboration grows artworks up and out of the site. In 2007, Cape Farewell was invited by Peter Hampel, Creative Director at Eden, to help imagine how the Eden environment could be brought to life in new, art led and climate focused ways. Since then, site wide sound and visual installations have been presented at Eden, offering surprising encounters and unusual experiences to the visitor. Comic and musical performances have been given in the Mediterranean Biome and an exhibition about the Cape Farewell expeditions has been shown in the Core Building. Cape Farewell aims to stimulate fresh thinking about our future and its work is central to the Eden Project’s Climate Change programmes.

The Arctic Poppy Chronicles

Exhibition and Book by Michèle Noach
18 April to 8 July 2012
Mezzanine in the Core, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK

Michèle Noach presents the outcome of her 3-year Slow Art collaborative research project with a new exhibition and book at the Eden Project, opening on 18 April 2012. The project involved Michèle Noach (artist) and Ian Martin (Eden Project horticulturist) growing an Arctic poppy at the Eden Project from seed to investigate its adaptive behaviour when exposed to a climate warmer than normal, and see how it might fare with the currently rising temperatures of the High Arctic, from where the seeds were collected.
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Slow Art Programme

Research and Development Residencies

The Cape Farewell | Eden Project Collaboration is part funded by Arts Council England South West. This funding has made possible the Slow Art Programme, a quietly revolutionary research programme in which artists are invited to set their own frameworks and to work according to their own and the Eden site’s natural rhythms. Supported by Eden staff, ideas grow organically and as research begins to bear fruit, projects are brought into the public events programme.
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Past Events

  • Unplugged

    3 & 4 June 2011

    Musicians from across Cornwall created and performed this ambitious ensemble work by  composer Tim Sutton. Performed in the Outdoor Biome, the piece used no electro amplification, but used Eden's natural acoustics. The music, inspired by Cornwall’s folk traditions and mining history, evoked connections between Eden’s origins, community and environment.
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  • Bi-ot'ik Stage 2011

    Eden Summer Sessions 2011

    Cape Farewell and Eden's successful Bī-ŏt'ĭk stage returned to the Mediterranean Biome in the summer of 2011, with music, spoken word, comedy and conversation, cooked up in collaboration with the artists, Pestival, Lakin McCarthy, University of Sheffield School of Architecture, Manchester Aid to Kosovo, Telling Tales, Talkaoke and Greenpeace.
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  • Bi-ot'ik Stage 2010

    Eden Summer Sessions 2010

    Cape Farewell's collaboration with the Eden Project continued during the 2010 Eden Sessions with Bi-ot'ik, a stage hosted over two days in the Mediterranean Biome featuring Grammy Award Nominated Zero 7, soulful Cape Fareweller Liam Frost and full band, Shlomo, one of the world's leading beatboxers, Bellatrix and the Boxettes, Dizraeli, Rodney Branigan and Reggae Stars Backbeat Soundsystem.

  • Anthem by Beth Derbyshire

    14 Nov - 9 Dec 2009

    Beth Derbyshire's live performance and film work Anthem, with music by acclaimed composer Ulrike Haage, premiered in Eden's Mediterranean Biome, opening the Winter Season of the Cape Farewell and Eden collaboration. Anthem is a trilogy of films with a powerful choral component. The work explores notions of land, place and nation.
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  • Eden Christmas Arts Cafe

    Winter 09/10 Season

    Cape Farewell added a little spice to Eden's Christmas Arts Café, with Daro Montag presenting the Biochar Project. Following the spectacular and transformative light show at Eden during summer, Chris Levine and Max Eastley collaborated again to produce work of a quieter, more intimate kind. Audiences also caught one of the final screenings of Beth Derbyshire's Anthem.

  • Cool Sounds from the Frozen Arctic

    Eden Summer Sessions 2009

    Cape Farewell joined the Eden Sessions for the first time as Shlomo, Marcus Brigstocke and Liam Frost performed in the Mediterranean Biome before Razorlight's Eden Session.

  • Youth Expedition Portal

    Summer Season 2008

    Visitors to the Eden Project watched the 2007 voyages unfold via daily video reports, blogs, and images of the art, science and increasing effects of climate change in the Arctic. Cape Farewell also worked with the creative and education teams at Eden to choose a student from the Cornish area to take part in the 2008 youth expedition.

  • Clare Twomey's Blossom

    Winter 07/08 Season

    Cape Farewell's collaboration with the Eden Project was launched with a major commission, Blossom, by artist Clare Twomey. This expansive yet delicate work comprised 8,000 unfired china clay flowers, planted with the help of Eden’s horticultural team in the borders along the central pathways of the Eden site.

  • On-site Installations

    Winter Season 2007/08

    The season also saw a sound installation by Max Eastley and Vicky Long, Ice Rink, a photographic film and video installation by David Buckland and Eugene Sellors, a graphic exhibition following the routes of the 2007 expeditions, and Glacial Soundscape by Max Eastley.

Clare Twomey, <em>Blossom</em>, 2007, (detail)
Clare Twomey, <em>Blossom</em>, 2007, (detail)
The Unplugged Project, Musician Jim Carey
Clare Twomey, <em>Blossom</em>, 2007, (detail)
Clare Twomey, <em>Blossom</em>, 2007, (detail)
Clare Twomey, <em>Blossom</em>, 2007, (detail)
Clare Twomey, <em>Blossom</em>, 2007, (detail)
Ice Rink, a photographic film and video installation by David Buckland and Eugene Sellors
Marcus Brigstocke, Shlomo and Liam Frost perform in Eden's Mediterranean Biome, as part of Cool Sounds from the Frozen Arctic.
Liam Frost performs in Eden's Mediterranean Biome, as part of Cool Sounds from the Frozen Arctic.
The Unplugged Project, Composer & MD, Tim Sutton
Marcus Brigstocke performs in Eden's Mediterranean Biome, as part of Cool Sounds from the Frozen Arctic.
Shlomo performs in Eden's Mediterranean Biome, as part of Cool Sounds from the Frozen Arctic.
Sound installation by Max Eastley at the Eden Project
The Unplugged Project, Musician, Dan Hughes

The Unplugged Project, Musician Jim Carey


Past Exhibitions and Events

Category: Exhibitions Posted: 15 April 2008

Past Exhibitions & Events


Between 2005 and 2011, Cape Farewell artwork was exhibited across the UK (London, Oxford, Liverpool, Newcastle, Folkestone and Cornwall), in Europe (Oslo, Brussels, Hamburg, Monaco and Munich, Madrid), and in North America (Colorado, Chicago, Michigan and New York City) and Asia (Japan). We work with partners across the UK and internationally to ensure the widest audience for our art and events. 

  • High Arctic

    July 2011 - Jan 2012

    Inspired by the 2010 Arctic Expedition Matt Clark and the United Visual Artists team created High Arctic at the National Maritime Museum. An immersive, interactive environment which used sculptural forms, poetry, an evocative soundtrack and cutting-edge technology to create a unique installation experience.
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  • 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.
    Find out more ›

  • 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.
    Find out more ›

  • 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.
    Find out more ›

  • 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.
    Find out more ›

  • 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.

Other highlights include...

  • Amy Balkin organises a public reading of the latest IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) report as part of the Futuresonic Festival in Manchester (2009)
  • David Buckland's Ice Texts are screened to audiences at Somerset House (2005)
  • Liverpool Biennial features Arctic inspired work by Max Eastley and David Buckland (2004)
The Ship: The Art of Climate Change at the Natural History Museum, 2006
Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change at Kampnagel Cultural Centre, Hamburg, 2007
ARCTIC by David Buckland and Max Eastley in the Pritzker Pavilion of Chicagos Millennium Park
Night view of The Ice Garden in the Clarendon Quad, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Detail of Blossom by Clare Twomey, exhibited at the Eden Project in 2007
Detail of Blossom by Clare Twomey, exhibited at the Eden Project in 2007
William Hunt, Earth, Wind and Fire, 2007 (still)
Gautier Deblonde, from The Svalbard Series, 2003-2005
Siobhan Davies, Endangered Species, 2006 (still)
Gary Hume, Hermaphrodite Polar Bear, 2003
Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change shown at Fundación Canal, Madrid, 2008
Artist floor talk as part of Art & Climate Change at Kampnagel Cultural Centre, Hamburg, 2007
Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change at Kampnagel Cultural Centre, Hamburg, 2007
Cape Farewell outdoor modular exhibition at The Sage Gateshead
Kampnagel Cultural Centre

Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change at Kampnagel Cultural Centre, Hamburg