Cape Farewell at Eden

Summer Season at the Eden Project

July - September 2008

Youth Expedition & Web Portals

Over the summer season in 2008 and during the September 2008 expeditions, website portals promoting/presenting the autumn voyages will be installed on site at the Eden Project. 

During this period, we are also working with the creative and education teams at the Eden Project to choose a student from the Cornish area to take part in the 2008 youth expedition.  More details to be announced soon.  

Upcoming Winter Season at the Eden Project

November 2008 - February 2009

Details to be announced

Cape Farewell travels to Cornwall in November 2008 to continue the long term collaboration with the Eden Project. Check back soon for more details or join the mailing and let us keep you informed as dates are released.  This follows the 2007 Winter Season collaboration, details below.

Winter Season at the Eden Project

December 2007 - February 2008

Clare Twomey, David Buckland, Max Eastley, Vicky Long, Eugene Sellors

This Winter Season sees the beginning of Cape Farewell's long-term artistic collaboration with the Eden Project, introducing a major new commission, Blossom, by artist Clare Twomey. This vast and delicate work comprises thousands of fragile unfired china clay flowers that weave in and out of the central pathway at the Eden Project site interacting with the horticultural displays. The flowers deteriorate by the hour responding to the conditions of the weather - exposed and vulnerable.

Blossom interacts with a sound installation by Max Eastley and Vicky Long who have worked together to combine recordings made in the High Arctic. Installations along the path carry the crash of the waves, the sound of ice melting, the industry of Cape Farewell's oceanographers and the awe experienced by the artists in this inspiring, yet threatening and threatened, environment.

The sound and ceramic installation lead visitors along a pathway between the two Cape Farewell exhibition sites; the Ice Rink, which features a photographic film & video installation by David Buckland and Eugene Sellors including new images taken during the 2007 expedition to Greenland.

The second site in the Core building features a graphic exhibition and video portal mapping the routes of the 2007 expeditions. This exhibition provides a representation of the epic journeys undertaken by both the Youth crew and Arts/science crew. Visitors to the Eden Project and to the Cape Farewell voyage microsites can view daily video reports, blogs, and images of the art, science and increasing effects of climate change in the Arctic.

Alongside these exhibitions and the pathway is Glacial Soundscape - a glacial and sound artwork by Max Eastley which was first exhibited at Bodliean Library, Oxford, October 2005 to critical acclaim.