Creative Responses to the Climate Crisis

On this webpage we are presenting wide-ranging creative responses to the climate crisis. These artworks explore some of the issues we face as our planet warms: from the death of our ocean’s kelp forests, to seabird extinction; from life in an arid environment, to overfarming; and from plastic pollution to ozone depletion. Most of the works here come from artists living in the global south, in locations already feeling the impact of climate change.

“I live in the Hex River Valley, which is an export grape producing landscape and a mono culture. This has huge implications for the environment. As it is the only work opportunity for most people the possibility to change this is very little, so my ice pages are one way of highlighting the melting ice caps, which will result in huge climate changes. But as we cannot see this happening and we keep assuming that we will be ok, these ice pages are warning signs that are visible. I record the date, time, wind, humidity and document the leftover grape stems from a vast agricultural system as signifiers of the harmful ways of our very destructive behaviour. Frozen in ice these images are speaking to our blinded folly on this earth…”

— Erica Lüttich

“When large numbers of seabirds wash up like this it’s called a ‘wreck’. On the east coast of Scotland wrecks are most likely to occur when continuous days of storms from the east churn the sea to such an extent that birds simply cannot dive effectively enough to catch their various prey species. If the storm is severe or long or both then seabirds starve and over coming days their bodies wash onto our beaches…” read more on seabirds and our collapsing climate here

— Leo du Feu

“My artwork is centred around the issues of industrial pollution, toxic contamination of waterbodies, the implications of shifting weather patterns and how communities are directly affected by industrial pollution…”
— Aubrey Bango

Further Artworks

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We are taking a selection of your artworks to COP26 – view a teaser online: here