NOWHEREISLAND

A Project by Alex Hartley

2012 Cultural Olympiad project for the South West of England

During the 2004 Cape Farewell expedition artist Alex Hartley began the work Nymark (Undiscovered Island), a photographic piece that echoes the journeys of the early Arctic explorers in describing the process of finding and naming a 'new' island; one only uncovered in recent years by a retreating glacier. The work is currently touring with the Art & Climate Change exhibition.

In October 2009 nowhereisland was announced the winning Artists Taking the Lead project for the South West of England, the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad's most ambitious event. Alex Hartley will develop the work begun in 2004, transporting the island of Nymark and sailing it to the ports and harbours of the South West of England.

The island will be transposed onto a floating platform, and brought to the UK via International Waters. Whilst outside national seas, the island will become nowhereisland and will declare itself a new micronation.

At the end of the Olympic year, after acting as a travelling embassy for the new nation and having described the south west coast with its journey, nowhereisland will return to its place of origin in the High Arctic and be remade.

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