Blogposts tagged 'Artist'

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.

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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.