2007 Expedition Crew

• Vikram Seth

  Writer

  Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.
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• Marcus Brigstocke

  Comedian

  Stand-up comic, writer, presenter and actor, Marcus hosts The Late Edition, his own live topical TV show on BBC 4. His experiences in the Arctic have feed into a touring show titled Your Time Is Up.
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• David Buckland

  Expedition Leader and Artist,

  David Buckland is a designer, artist and film-maker whose lens-based works have been exhibited in numerous galleries in London, Paris and New York. He created and now directs the Cape Farewell project.
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• Brian Jungen

  Artist

  Brian Jungen is a key figure in Vancouver's art community. His work draws upon the tradition of found art. Instead of presenting objects 'as-is', Brian often reworks them without fully concealing their original meaning or purpose.
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• Amy Balkin

  Artist

  Amy Balkin utilises critique and cross-disciplinary research in projects that consider how humans create, interact with, and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit.
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• Dr Simon Boxall

  Oceanographer

  Simon Boxall is a lecturer in Oceanography at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He has monitored ocean environments worldwide in force 11 gales and in the compete calm, from the air, space and underwater, tracking and monitoring pollution and environmental impact. 
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• Emily Venables

  Oceanographer

  Emily is an oceanography Ph.D student, working on the impact of mixing between warm Atlantic and cold Arctic waters. She worked for a year on the physical oceanography of the West Spitsbergen Shelf in 2005. She has since been to sea monitoring the change in currents affecting the Arctic, between Iceland and Scotland.
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• Dr Carol Cotterill

  Marine and Coastal Geoscientist

  Carol initially trained as a theatre designer, specialising in lighting design, and the effect of colour on the human emotions. However, a rather convoluted path led to re-training as a geoscientist, and working for the British Geological Survey.
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• Liam Frost

  Musician

  Liam Frost is a singer-songwriter and reluctant superstar, hailing from Manchester. Combining northern grit with a psychedelic imagination; personal tragedy with black humour; a strong, centrifugal solo artist with the strength and unity of a big band; Liam Frost and The Slowdown Family confound expectations at every turn.
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• Dallas Murphy

  Writer

  Dallas Murphy is the author of four novels, two plays, and most recently two non-fiction books including To Follow the Water.
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• Shiro Takatani

  Artist

  Shiro Takatani is a Japanese artists and one of the founding members of the Dumb Type artist collective.
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• Ben Jervey

  Journalist

  Ben Jervey is a freelance writer, environmental consultant, and ‘ecopreneur’ who, over the last decade, has been working towards a more sustainable life in New York City. He recently released a book to help others do the same, The Big Green Apple: Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Living in New York City.
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• Kathy Barber

  Artist and designer

  Kathy is an Australian artist who has carved her own way through a mostly male dominated graffiti scene since 1990 - painting, designing and collaborating in spaces across Australia, Asia and Europe. She's created websites for clients as diverse as Philips, Fullham FC and Naomi Campbell, and has designed her own range of hats for Kangol.
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• Nick Cobbing

  Photographer

  Nick is a photojournalist, cameraman and photographic artist based in London. His work concentrates on environment, ecology and community, exploring the diverse and changing relationship between humankind and planet Earth.
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• Beth Derbyshire

  Photographer

  Beth Derbyshire's work is inspired by drawing, dance/contact, communication and information systems. Through their creation and installation, her work seeks to explore what it means to be an individual in a world where we, and our surroundings, are frequently categorised and classified.
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• Aminatu Goumar

  Musician

  Raised as a Touareg nomad in the deserts of Africa, Aminatu Goumar is musician and singer with the band Toumast, who take the music of the desert blues in an unexpected and radical direction.
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• Dan Harvey

  Artist

  Dan Harvey collaborates extensively with artist Heather Ackroyd, often working with natural processes such as growing grass. Their art embraces site specific installation, sculpture, landscape design, photography and performance film.
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• Vicky Long

  Artist

  Vicky Long has a background in theatre and scenography. Since 2005 she has produced exhibitions, events and film for Cape Farewell. Vicky enjoys working with a wide range of artists, to create work that gets right to the heart of what it is to be living today.
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• Caroline Ross-Pirie

  Film Producer and Director

  Caroline is an award-winning observational documentary and art filmmaker who’s undertaken many extraordinary journeys. Her ventures in time travel include the BAFTA nominated, RTS and Indie award winning C4 House projects.
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• Matt Wainwright

  Sound Recordist

  Matt works as a sound recordist, cameraman and stills photographer. His main body of work is television documentary, with subjects centred between art, fashion and music. Matt throws himself into new projects with full enthusiasm, and is very excited by the prospect of his first Cape Farewell voyage.
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