Melting Ice - A Hot Topic:  Envisioning Change

A UN Environment Programme/Natural World Museum Exhibition 

June 2007 - September 2008

David Buckland, Siobhan Davies, David Hinton, Gary Hume

A selection of Cape Farewell artworks was selected to tour with the Natural World Museum and United Nations Environment Programme exhibition, Envisioning Change, to Oslo, Brussels, Monaco and Chicago. Cape Farewell artists David Buckland, Siobhan Davies, David Hinton and Gary Hume are featured alongside works by Anne Senstad, Robert Bateman and Chris Jordan.

Currently Touring 

Envisioning Change celebrates World Environment Day and opened in Oslo on 5 June 2007 at the Nobel Peace Centre. Over 2,300 people attended - a record-breaking number of visitors for the Peace Centre. It then toured in Europe to the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (October 2007 - January 2008) and the Ministry of Culture in Monaco to coincide with the UNEP Governing Council meetings (March - April 2008). Envisioning Change is currently being exhibited in its final destination at the Field Museum in Chicago closing on 1 September 2008.

About the Exhibition

For UN World Environment Day 2007, the Natural World Museum in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme produced an exhibition that addresses the theme of climate change from a global perspective - the melting and thawing of ice, snow and permafrost are environment-altering changes taking place around the world- from the Andes to the Himalayas to the melting ice caps of the Poles. "Change" - the transition that occurs from same to different, the moment of transformation, a change of position or action. Change used in reference to our environment can describe the transformation of material substance - from ice to water, liquid to gas - the changing conditions of our rivers, our rapidly melting glaciers, and the overall changes in the earth's climate. Change requires organisms and organizations alike to adapt to new environmental conditions. Metaphorically, change can also refer to the transformation of society's mindset to act in a positive way individually and collectively to work toward a more sustainable future.

Participating Artists

Subhankar Banerjee – India, Robert Bateman – Canada, Alfio Bonano – Denmark, David Buckland – UK, Christo & Jeanne-Claude – US, Margaret Cogswell – US, Sebastian Copeland – France, Xavier Cortada – US, Siobhan Davies – UK, Era and Don Farnsworth – US, Free Range Studio – US, Helen and Newton Harrison – US, Mona Hatoum – Lebanon, David and Hi-Jin Hodge – US & Korea, Gary Hume – UK, Laura Horelli – Finland, The Icelandic Love Corporation – Iceland, Ichi Ikeda – Japan, Sveln Flygari Johansen – Norway, Chris Jordan – US, Kahn Selesnick – England, Sant Khalsa – US, Fred Ivar Ultsi Klemetsen – Norway, Angela Lergo – Spain, Jonas Liveröd – Sweden, Dalibar Martinis – Croatia, Jacob McKean – US, Gilles Mingasson – France, David Nash – Wales, Lucy + Jorge Orta – England & Argentina, Sven Påhlsson – Norway, Shana and Robert Parke-Harrison – US, Cecilia Paredes – Peru, Andrea Polli – US, Ana Prvacki – Singapore, Anne Senstad – Norway, HM Queen Sonya of Norway, David Trubridge - New Zealand, Strijdom van der Merwe – South Africa, Theo Wujcik – US, Yoshiaki Kaihatsu – Japan, Justin Young – US.

This exhibit was produced in collaboration with the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Nobel Peace Center, Monaco Ministry of Culture, and the United Nations Environment Programme and made possible through the generous support of Autodesk, Inc. and the Norwegian Ministry of Environment.

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