Sea Change (Tionndadh na Mara)
Sea Change is a four-year Cape Farewell programme of research and making across Scotland’s western and northern isles
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Sexy Peat / Tìr mo Rùin. Highland Print Studio/Cape Farewell: Year of Natural Scotland 2013
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery 8 March - 5 April 2014
Following the success of Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin as part of Sea Change at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, the exhibition transfers to Inverness Museum and Art Gallery in March-April 2014, before returning to its island of origin at An Lanntair, Lewis. Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin artists: Anne Campbell: http://www.annecampbellart.co.uk/ Jon Macleod: http://www.jonmacleod.com/ Kacper Kowalski:... Read More ›
Sea Change 2012: interdependence
Thank you to everyone involved in Sea Change 2012: artists, arts and science organisations, local communities and funders. Here’s a map of some of the artist-led activity over the year; as Scotland debates the important issue of political independence, we’re voting for the ecological interdependence of people, places and resources! Wishing everyone a happy... Read More ›
Air falbh leis na h-eòin – Away with the Birds
Artist Diary: Daniel Warren
No film can be too personal. The image speaks. Sound amplifies and comments. Size is irrelevant. Perfection is not an aim. An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude. Free Cinema 1 manifesto, February 1956 I’m not really one for writing a diary or a blog, and there are already good writers involved... Read More ›
A celebration of GalGael
Sunday 27 January 2013, Govan, Glasgow
An afternoon of song and story about boats, journeys and navigating change, in celebration of GalGael’s traditional boat-building and furniture-making project in the heart of Glasgow’s former shipbuilding community. With Bird Yarns, Mary Jane Lamond, Wendy MacIsaac, Mary Smith, Inge Thomson, Hanna Tuulikki, Nerea Bello, Allan Macdonald, Nuala Kennedy, Kathleen MacInnes, Alec Finlay. ‘ What a... Read More ›
Scientists ask blunt question on everyone’s mind
Science, society, ethics: the new advocacy. Read about it here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/12/is_earth_f_ked_at_2012_agu_meeting_scientists_consider_advocacy_activism.single.html Read More ›
Machair. Hugh Harwood
Machair is a complex eco-system situated on low-lying coastline, comprised of sand with a high proportion of shell fragments (sometimes 80 or 90 % making it fertile). Machair has developed with the effects of strong winds combined with just the right amount of rainfall and, most crucially, the involvement of people and their grazing... Read More ›
Things Unspoken / Things Unseen. Andrea Roe, Anne Bevan
Book launch 20 August 2013 at Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Things Unspoken Things Unseen by Anne Bevan and Andrea Roe 2 volume artist book Things Unspoken Things Unseen, by Anne Bevan and Andrea Roe, was launched with Cape Farewell’s 2013 Swan expedition at the Pier Arts Centre in August 2013. Including contributions by Janice Galloway, Jen Hadfield, Kathleen Jamie, Robert Alan Jamieson and Alan Spence,... Read More ›
It’s the Skin You’re Living In installation tour 2013 – David Harradine / Fevered Sleep / Fuel
See the film here, via Fevered Sleep
See the film here: It’s the Skin You’re Living In It’s the Skin You’re Living In is a multi-format film project, that explores and challenges existing images of climate change. Shot in a series of locations from the islands of Svalbard in the High Arctic to a kitchen in a house in London – via... Read More ›
Air falbh leis na h-eòin – Away with the Birds: Culture 2014
Isle of Canna, August 2014
Hanna Tuulikki’s body of work exploring the mimesis of bird sounds in Gaelic song was described as ‘heartbreakingly gorgeous’ on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Culture Show in January 2014. Performed in collaboration with vocal artists, field recorder Geoff Sample, filmmaker Daniel Warren, Gaelic singer Mary Smith, textile artist Deirdre Nelson and choreographer Rosalind Masson, the... Read More ›
Bird Yarns inspires ‘Tern’, by musician Mick Slaven: Listen here
Deirdre Nelson: Artist Diary March 2013
Tern, written and performed by Mick Slaven Listen here Copyright control Mick Slaven, 2013: www.trickyhat.com/mick–slaven.html Riding the Breeze Bird Yarns made a brief landing at Letham Nights in Fife late last year and managed to share the stage with Coal Town Daisies and The Bevvy Sisters. Letham nights aims to bring high quality music to... Read More ›
Robert Macfarlane’s journey to the Shiant Isles
On Lewis community owned boat Broad Bay
See Robert Macfarlane’s account of a journey to the Shiant Isles with Ian Stephen on Lewis community-owned sgoth Broad Bay: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443524904577649524150261342.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Read More ›
Ian Stephen and Christine Morrison in Travelling Light at An Talla Solais, Ullapool
20 April - 19 May
Ian Stephen and Christine Morrison present new work, supported by Sea Change, as part of Travelling Light at An Talla Solais, Ullapool, an exhibition and art activities inspired by the sailor’s ditty box. http://www.antallasolais.org/travelling-light An Talla Solais Market Street Ullapool IV26 2XE Acts of Trust wins award in British Awards for Storytelling Excellence The... Read More ›
Hear Stephen Hurrel on Radio 4
Listen on BBC iPlayer
Listen to Stephen Hurrel discussing his artist residency at the University of Aberdeen Lighthouse Field Station, Cromarty. Part of BBC Radio 4’s Saving Species series. Read More ›
Air falbh leis na h-eòin – Away with the Birds
Hanna Tuulikki's Complete Audio Diary
28 June 2013 Listen here to an extract from Hanna’s diary: Voices at Dusk https://archive.capefarewell.com/seachange/wp-content/uploads/canna-diary-extract-13.mp3 29 May 2013 Listen here to an extract from Hanna’s diary: Tracing Lines https://archive.capefarewell.com/seachange/wp-content/uploads/canna-diary-extract-121.mp3 19 April 2013 The creation of Air falbh leis na h-eòin: Hanna on tumblr 14 January 2013 Listen here to an extract from Hanna’s diary:... Read More ›
Dùthchas na Mara – Belonging to the Sea
Downloadable publication by Iain MacKinnon, Ruth Brennan, Stephen Hurrel
New research on island fishermens’ relationship to the sea suggests cultural roots to Sound Of Barra dispute A new book investigating the cultural background to the ongoing maritime conflict in the Sound of Barra in the Western Isles is being published this week. The book, called Dùthchas na Mara/Dúchas na Mara/Belonging to the Sea,... Read More ›
‘Particle’ (Things Unseen). Anne Bevan
3 Aug – 16 Sept 2012
Solo exhibition by Anne Bevan with Shetland Arts (Bonhoga Gallery) and the Shetland Museum and Archive (Pier Store). An installation of sculpture, print and video exploring the microscopic world of our shores and oceans, from the North Atlantic to the Sea of Japan. Anne has collaborated on the project with Dr Kate Darling from the... Read More ›
Ditty Boxes. John Cumming, Cecil Tait in Travelling Light at An Talla Solais, Ullapool
20 April - 19 May 2013
Shetland/Orkney sculptor John Cumming and Shetland furniture maker Cecil Tait collaborate on Ditty Boxes, an installation based on the hand-made sailors’ boxes designed to hold treasured possessions on hazardous ocean voyages. The ditty boxes have now travelled from Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick, to Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, and on to Künstlerhaus, Dortmund, before returning... Read More ›
Topologies of Air – Ruith Na Gaoithe. Shona Illingworth residency at Taigh Chearsabhagh
Symposium/event November 2013
‘…the act of envisioning an object or an action in terms of an ecology or lifecycle (whether in a banal commercial sense or within a creative research project) ultimately challenges the classification of that object as a product.’ Jill Bennett, Living in the Anthropocene, 2011 Shona’s project for the Cape Farewell Sea Change project will... Read More ›
Kittiwake Faces Extinction in UK
Population Halves
Kittiwake sea bird could become extinct as population halves since the 1980s | Mail Online. Read More ›
CARBON 12
4 May – 16 Sept 2012
CARBON 12, Cape Farewell’s new exhibition opens at Espace Foundation EDF, Paris on 3rd May, with work focusing on the vital exchange between artists and scientists. The exhibition encompasses biodiversity, atmospherics and oceanography – earth, wind and sea. Five artists who have worked with climate scientists exhibit their artworks alongside the scientific enquiry. Artists Lucy... Read More ›
Bird Yarns. Deirdre Nelson
Artist Diary - Arctic terns descend on Glasgow Botanics!
Birdyarns is gathering supporters and followers with each and every landing, each time making connections in new, exciting and unexpected ways . Recently singer Jo Mango (uk.myspace.com/jomango) got in touch having spotted Creative Scotland’s post about the birds landing in Glasgow. Much of her songwriting involves birds in one way or another so she... Read More ›
Landscape Scar
Jennifer Wilcox
Landscape Scar by Jennifer Wilcox, from the ‘Hiort’ St Kilda series. Read More ›
Ten Proposals for the Ocean
From UNESCO at Rio+20
‘The changes that will be required to transition to a Blue-Green Economy will be a mix of physical, behavioural and institutional. The objectives below summarise the nature of changes that will be required. Each of the proposals presented in this section are compared against the objectives in the matrix; the purpose being to understand how... Read More ›
IPCC Report on Extreme Weather Events
Special Report
Special Report: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). This is the latest IPCC report and it looks at how climate change might create more extreme weather events. Read the IPCC’s latest report here http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/ With thanks to Diana Liverman, Co-Director, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona Read More ›
Bird Yarns Photo Diary
Artist Diaries. 21 June 2012
21 June 2012 The days are long, bright and cool on Tobermory: only 4 hours of darkness between last gull and first dove call. Down in the harbour boats swing on the wind; clouds sit over Ardnamurchan and Morven across the Sound of Mull. On the fisherman’s pier a... Read More ›
WAVE/ING at Aberdeen Maritime Museum. Jini Rawlings
26 May -1 September 2012
Aberdeen Maritime Museum 26 May – 1 September 2012 Jini Rawlings has produced new work based on the log of Aberdeen trawl skipper Alfred Craig and a 19th century journal by Elizabeth Jane Oswald. ‘Bound for Iceland’ combines Craig’s personal testimony from his posting to wartime Iceland with film footage from the artist’s voyage... Read More ›
Air falbh leis na h-eòin – Away with the Birds
Artist Diary: Geoff Sample
See Olivia Uney’s Canna photographs: http://www.cannamousephotography.co.uk 8 June 2012 Listen to White-Tailed eagles, Canna. Recorded by Geoff Sample https://archive.capefarewell.com/seachange/wp-content/uploads/WTeagle_Canna1.mp3 The deep throb of the ferry’s engines provides an accompaniment to the journey and transports us from the known mainland to the unknown island. Leaving the harbour we leave man-made noise and a wide-open Atlantic insular... Read More ›
Bird Yarns. Mary Jane Lamond
Artist Diary - Flying in from Nova Scotia
11 June 2012 Just a little news on the Cape Breton flock below…I drove down to Sydney (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) yesterday to meet up with Janice MacKay and Kelly Krawchuk to pick up the Cape Breton flock of Arctic Terns. We met up in a pub and had a great visit, some food and... Read More ›
Arctic Terns
Kenny Taylor
We call them ‘Arctic’ terns. But they could be ‘Antarctic’ terns, or ‘All-the-Ocean-in-Between’ terns. For during one twelve-month period, these beautiful seabirds breed in the northern world, fly down across the Equator and winter far beyond. Arctic terns are the commonest kind of tern breeding in Britain and Ireland. You can see them around Mull and many other parts... Read More ›
Scots Pine and Juniper, Knoydart
Steve McQueen
Glasgow artist/maker Steve McQueen uses drawing, paint, photography and film to communicate the complexity of environmental ‘edges’ – borders between ecological zones in a constant process of change/exchange. http://www.facebook.com/SteveJMcQueen http://www.stevejohnmcqueen.blogspot.co.uk/ Read More ›
Culture, Climate, Young People
Thoughts on speaking about climate change
Bill McKibben, Founder of 350.org, author and environmental activist, shares his thoughts on speaking with young children about global warming and climate change. Read More ›
Bird Species & Climate Change
The Global Status Report
The Global Status Report: A synthesis of current scientific understanding of anthropogenic climate change impacts on global bird species now, and projected future effects. Read More ›
Supported by
- Jon and NoraLee Sedmak
- With the support of the
Culture Programme of the European Union
as part of the Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA) 
