The Eden Project

“To face the challenges ahead we need the best of our imagination and creativity, our technology and science, our humanity and vision. There are many synergies between the Cape Farewell and Eden Projects: both care deeply about our planet and look for ways to work with artists, scientists, educators, communicators and people from all walks of life to help create a brighter future. We like to show what individuals can achieve by working together and with the grain of nature. The Cape Farewell project is a wonderful example of how to explore issues and initiate discussions around climate change in an engaging, compelling and moving way, which is also positive and forward thinking.”
Tim Smit, CEO Eden Project

The Eden Project and Southbank Centre are Cape Farewell’s two major UK partners, 2007-10. Cape Farewell will present work at both sites over the next three years and play a vital part in the development of their creative and environmental agendas.

In August 2007, Cape Farewell began its three year artists residency at the Southbank Centre. Cape Farewell will operate as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre's creative climate change initiatives. Simultaneously, Cape Farewell embarked on a three-year collaboration with the Eden Project.

Cape Farewell artists will engage with Eden through a series of residencies and create climate-focused site-specific works, which will surprise, engage and illuminate. Cape Farewell and the Eden Project share the ambition to communicate, through creative means, the need for a more sympathetic relationship between humans and the planet. Artworks will be presented at the Eden Project over the next three years and in collaboration with an expanding group of partners, including the British Council and Barbican Art Gallery, this work will also tour nationally and internationally.

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