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Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change

Cape Farewell's acclaimed exhibition 'Art & Climate Change' comes to Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan. To coincide with this exhibition, Cape Farewell Director, David Buckland takes part in talks and events across North America.

On 31st March David Buckland visits the Wexner Centre for the arts in Ohio to take part in their Climate and Culture event, as part of a panel discussion with Lonnie Thompson, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Edwina von Gal, Mitch Epstein and Alexis Rockman.

David Buckland then travels to Michigan to give a lecture on 6th April at the Cranbrook Institute of Science as part of Cranbrook's Artology Lecture Series.

On 31st May Cape Farewell conducts 'The 10' in Toronto: the second of an international series of cross-disciplinary visioning sessions with ten leading figures in the climate change arena. More soon...

Cranbrook Art Museum

31 January - 13 June 2010

In partnership with the Barbican Art Gallery, International Programme

Heather Ackroyd & Dan 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 exhibition, was first shown at the Natural History Museum in London, May to September 2006. It began its international tour in February 2008, showing at the Fundacion Canal Madrid, a new space in Madrid’s cultural quarter. Celebrated in the national press and media, the show was a great success.

In July 2008 the exhibition opened in Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation; the Miraikan.  From Japan it made it's way over to the United States where it is to be seen as part of the Artology series at the Cranbrook Art Museum.

David Buckland, director of Cape Farewell, is going to present the Cape Farewell project and the exhibition at Cranbrook on 6 April 2010.

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Alex Hartley, Nymark (Undiscovered Island), 2005, (detail). Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Gautier Deblonde, from The Svalbard Series, 2003-2005
Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change, opening at Miraikan, Tokyo.
Art & Climate Change at Fundacion Canal, Madrid. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, Stranded, 2005–2006
Siobhan Davies, Endangered Species, 2006 (still)
Art & Climate Change at Fundacion Canal, Madrid. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Art & Climate Change at Fundacion Canal, Madrid. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Art & Climate Change at Fundacion Canal, Madrid. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Art & Climate Change at Fundacion Canal, Madrid. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Art & Climate Change at Fundacion Canal, Madrid. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Black Ice Shards by David Buckland installed at Fundacion Canal. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Art & Climate Change at Fundacion Canal, Madrid. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Kathy Barber, Here Today, 2005 (Neon, solar panel, cabling, battery). Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change, the first major book title from Cape Farewell
The Svalbard Series by Gautier Deblonde installed at Fundacion Canal. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Gautier Deblonde, from The Svalbard Series, 2003-2005
Art & Climate Change at Fundacion Canal, Madrid. Photo: Ignacio Hernando
Crowd infront of presentation

Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change shown at Miraikan, Tokyo.  Photo from the opening, 5 July 2008