Cape Farewell, UK

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Cape Farewell is a UK-based artist-led organisation that works to respond to climate change. Launched by David Buckland in 2001 with a series of artist- and scientist-manned expeditions to the Arctic, Cape Farewell is an international not-for-profit programme based at The WaterShed, in Dorset.[1][2][3][4]

Cape Farewell aims to change the way people think about climate change, and to widely communicate, educate and inspire action on the need for urgent, and achievable, change. Cape Farewell engages with creative, scientific and visionary people, working with clean technology entrepreneurs, sociologists and universities towards achieving a non-carbon society.[5]

In 25 years, Cape Farewell has supported over 350 artists and over 60 climate scientists in the research and creation of artworks. For example, Marcus Coates' 'The Sound of Others' opened the Manchester Science Festival in partnership with the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in 2014; Guy Martin installed Forcey's Tower, Dorset, 2014; Sabrina Mahfouz completed her poetry residency with performances at the London School of Economics and the Southbank Centre; and SWITCH showcased young climate poets in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford.[6]

Cape Farewell partners with cultural institutions (for example, the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Tidal Lagoon Swansea, Tate, Eden Project, the Royal Academy, the National Maritime Museum and the Southbank Centre) to create artworks that explore climate change and promote conversation about environmental sustainability.[7]

  1. ^ "Cape Farewell – The cultural response to climate change". Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Cape Farewell". treehugger.com. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Press Release: Arts organisation Cape Farewell leads its first expedition outside the Arctic to the Peruvian Andes with a group of 18 international artists and scientists" (PDF). eci.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Project description – Cape Farewell – Disco Bay expedition". bestclimatepractices.org. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  5. ^ "About – Cape Farewell". Cape Farewell. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Cape Farewell Art". Cape Farewell. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Cape Farewell past projects". Cape Farewell. Retrieved 6 July 2015.