Exhibitions & events
Cape Farewell: u-n-f-o-l-d Exhibition 2010
10:00am to 5:00pm, 27 November 2010 to 22 January 2011 - Every day
Newlyn Art Gallery, New Road, Newlyn TR18 5PZ
10.00am-5.00pm, 27 November 2010 - 22 January 2011
(Closed Sundays & Mondays)
Newlyn Art Gallery, New Road, Newlyn
U-n-f-o-l-d exhibits the work of twenty-five artists who have participated in the Cape Farewell expeditions in 2007 and 2008 to the High Arctic and in 2009 to the Andes. Each artist witnessed firsthand the dramatic and fragile environmental tipping points of climate change. Their innovative, independent and collective responses explore the physical, emotional and political dimensions of our complex and changing world stressed by profligate human activity.
This body of work addresses a new process of thinking where artists play an informed and significant role through creating a cultural shift, a challenge to evolve and inspire a symbiotic contract with our spiritual and physical world.
One of the artists exhibiting is Daro Montag, Course Leader on MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice and RANE (Research into Arts, Nature and Environment) Research Cluster Leader at University College Falmouth. Daro joined the 2009 Andes Exhibition, Cape Farewell's first expedition outside the Arctic, to trek for 18 days through shrinking glaciers, cloud forests, lower forests, areas of deforestation and the Amazon.
Daro is an artist, lecturer and researcher who works with living organisms and natural processes. Best known for colourful images made in collaboration with micro-organisms, he is interested in understanding, and bringing to light, the inherent creativity of natural phenomena. This practice has also led to producing art with the assistance of toads, newts, insects and earthworms. His most recent project examines the soil and its significance both culturally and ecologically.
Unfold is part of our New Generation programme
New Generation is a groundbreaking initiative that could help reform society's notions of what art education can be. It will question ideas of what it is to be an artist in a world of fast-evolving social and cultural change. During the three years of the programme, working in partnership with three of the UK's premiere arts universities, we will involve three student groups in a series of activity-based programmes.
Cape Farewell's premise is that climate change will affect all communities globally. The way we have developed our lifestyles has created the problem and the solution is therefore a cultural responsibility. New Generation will establish the idea that cultural responsibility has a place at the heart of artistic practice, it offers an exciting opportunity for emerging artists and could provide a future model for arts-based education across the UK and internationally.
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