Gretel Ehrlich
Author and Poet
The American author Gretel Ehrlich joined Cape Farewell on the first Art/Science Expedition in 2003, on a voyage from Tromsø to Spitsbergen via Bear Island.
Gretel has published many works of non-fiction, fiction and poetry including Solace of Open Spaces, This Cold Heaven and A Match to the Heart. She has visited Greenland ten times, resulting in a book, This Cold Heaven, a National Geographic story on the effect of climate change on traditional hunting culture in January, 2006, a National Public Radio report, and a forthcoming film. She is also the author of The Future of Ice, a non-fiction work on climate change including the first Cape Farewell voyage to the Arctic.
Gretel Ehrlich spent the year 2007 on a circumpolar journey meeting with indigneous Arctic people in villages across six Arctic nations to hear about their lives - past and present and how they are being affected by climate change. Her book, Farthest North, about indigenous Arctic people and climate change is forthcoming from National Geographic Books in 2009. It explores the ways in which the changing climate has already affected their icescapes and landscapes, their lives and traditions. Arctic ecosystems are in a state of collapse and the remaining subsistence traditions of these boreal cultures are vanishing with them.
Latest News
RPS Awards Shortlist
Tim Sutton’s Unplugged, Winning the Clay has been shortlisted for an RPS Award
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Gretel Ehrlich 2001
"It also occurs to me that the real and the imagined have long since fused here. Truths are relative to the imagination that invents them. It's not the content of experience that we end up with, but the structure of how we know something."
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