UNFOLD
A Cultural Response to Climate Change
Each
artist witnessed firsthand the dramatic and fragile environmental tipping points of climate change. Their innovative, independent
and collective responses explore the physical, emotional and political dimensions of our complex and changing world stressed
by profligate human activity. This body of work addresses a new process of thinking where artists play an informed and significant
role through creating a cultural shift, a challenge to evolve and inspire a symbiotic contract with our spiritual and physical
world.
David Buckland is an artist whose lens-based works have been exhibited worldwide. In 2000 he created the
Cape Farewell project, which he now directs. A major international Cape Farewell touring exhibition includes his video work
"The End of Ice" and two series of black glass collodion based photographic pieces and a series of twelve photographic glacial
text projections. Buckland's work was also shown in the UN touring Exhibition for World Environment Day. He also produced
two films for television, "Art from the Arctic" for the BBC and "Burning Ice". Recently he co-curated the exhibition "Earth
- Art of a Changing World", at Royal Academy, London. Chris Wainwright is an artist, curator and Head of Camberwell, Chelsea
and Wimbledon Colleges, the University of the Arts London, UK. He is also President of The European League of Institutes of
the Arts (ELIA). Currently he is a member of Tate Britain Council and a board member of Cape Farewell. He has been in numerous
one person and group exhibitions worldwide. His work is represented in many major public and private collections including:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council England; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.