Blogposts tagged 'Art'

Climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilisation

Posted by jossg - 9 September 2011 at 12:35pm - 5 Comments

Georgia Hirsty writes about her role in the recreation of Vitruvian Man. She's a deckhand aboard the Arctic Sunrise, at 80 degrees north.

Everything north of Holland was new territory for me. I’d never seen the ice and could barely imagine it. When I asked a shipmate of mine what it was like, he said: “you feel how old it is, how untouched.”

Article tagged as: arctic, art, climate change, da vinci, go beyond oil, john quigley

Modern art is (made from) rubbish

Posted by saunvedan - 26 September 2008 at 3:58pm - 0 Comments

The Rainbow Worrier, made from 5,000 plastic bags It's been an arty week for me. After the polar bear sculptures in the US, an outdoor art group in Devon - Trail Recycled Art in Landscape (Trail) - has made a trawler boat out of 5,000 plastic bags and named it Rainbow Worrier after our legendary ship the Rainbow Warrior. They even filled it up with plastic fish in fishing nets to highlight how plastic is destroying marine ecosystems.

Plastic waste isn't just what you see on beaches and coast lines. A plastic dump in the Pacific Ocean as large as Texas is constantly swirling in a massive gyre that is referred to as the 'trash vortex'. Other unflattering names include Asian trash trail and the Eastern Garbage Patch where six kilos of plastic swirls for every kilo of plankton.

Article tagged as: art, dumping, marine life, oceans, plastic, waste

Seeing the light at Earls Court

Posted by bex - 21 September 2007 at 2:17pm - 10 Comments

Judging from recent comments on this site, it seems there are a few people out there who still believe the myths that compact fluorescent bulbs are ugly, ungainly and undimmable.

But going green doesn't mean sacrificing good design, and CFLs can be versatile, stylish and even beautiful. We've been working with designer Jason Bruges (he of Wind to Light renown) on an installation using fully dimmable, compact fluorescent bulbs and, well, I'll let the film do the talking:


Article tagged as: 100% design, art, climate change, design, earls court, exhibitions, jason bruges, light bulbs, videos

Warning - this story contains nudity

Posted by tracy - 20 August 2007 at 9:36am - 0 Comments

Spencer Tunick installation on Swiss glacier

That was bound to get your attention. And that is precisely what 600 volunteers thought when they took off their clothes on a glacier in the Swiss Alps to call for action against climate change.

The nude volunteers posed for our Swiss office and renowned installation artist Spencer Tunick on the Aletsch Glacier. Known around the world for his installations, Spencer Tunick wants people to know that global climate change is not an abstract issue, but a hazardous threat which affects us all.

Article tagged as: art, artist, climate change, glaciers, global warming, spencer tunick

Your climate change videos

Posted by jossc - 20 June 2007 at 2:25pm - 0 Comments

A big thanks once again to all of you who took part in our Glastonbury competition. Here are some of the best entries in the video section - it's a shame there could only be one winner in each category.

My birthday in the park (living with climate change...)



Article tagged as: art, climate change, competitions, glastonbury, images, multimedia, videos

You and climate change, in pictures

Posted by bex - 20 June 2007 at 10:03am - 0 Comments

We asked you to create images and videos about climate change. As promised, here are some of our favourite images (make sure you check out the winners, and the wonderful animations and videos too).

Click on the images to see them in full size:

Painting and collage

Article tagged as: art, climate change, competitions, images, multimedia

Artists on Aldermaston

Posted by bex - 2 December 2006 at 12:48am - 0 Comments

One of the hundreds of citizens inspecting Aldermaston earlier this week was the artist Kurt Jackson. He’s best known for his paintings of the Cornish landscape, but it turns out he’s also a dab hand at sketching nuclear weapons facilities. In the rain. Under the scrutiny of nosy police officers.

Article tagged as: aldermaston, art, artist, britain, england, kurt jackson, nuclear non-proliferation treaty, nuclear weapons, sketch, steve bell, UK, weapons inspectors

The 'Save or Delete' art exhibition

Posted by admin - 2 February 2006 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

The successful Greenpeace 'Save or Delete' art and photography exhibition, featuring exclusive works by some of the world's best known international graphic artists such as Pete Fowler, Mike Gillette and Jasper Goodall, toured across the UK between autumn 2005 and spring 2005.

Article tagged as: art, exhibitions, forests, pete fowler, save or delete
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