Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change

Miraikan, Tokyo

5 July - 17 August 2008

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.  The opening on 5 July coincided with the G8 conference in Hokkaido and was attended by Sarah Brown (wife of Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister).  With an immense response in the national media and a total of 45,430 visitors it was a huge success in Japan.  The exhibition closed on 17 August.

In Tokyo, the exhibition of Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change was made possible by support from the British Council Tokyo.