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KT Tunstall
Artist's Diary
5 hours sailing down the gargantuan straight of Sondre Stromfjord, the light starts to get soaked up by the time. Like a waking dream. Milky green... More ›
Sophie Calle
Artist's Diary
Yesterday I buried my mother’s jewels on Northern Glacier. I was Lucky. A few meters further south and I would have landed on Starvation Glacier. She... More ›
Julie Fowlis
Three Islands Reel
Three Island Reels by Julie Fowlis, filmed during Cape Farewell’s 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Filmed by Matt Wainwright. Julie Fowlis is a singer and multi-instrumentalist originally from North... More ›
Kenny Taylor
Arctic Terns
No other creature on Earth sees so much sunlight in a year. No other living thing makes such a mega-migration. Eighty thousand kilometres is how far... More ›
Tom Chivers
Adrift
Exploring climate as culture, poet Tom Chivers is mapping the natural territories written into urban space: the peat bog underneath Elephant & Castle, Battersea’s tidal loop,... More ›
Shlomo
Arctic Beatbox
Shlomo’s Arctic Beatbox at Hotel Uummannaq during Cape Farewell’s 2008 Disko Bay Expedition. Video: Matt Wainwright. Cape Farewell YouTube channel › More ›
Introducing Disko-very Bob
Emily Venables introduces Disko-very Bob, launched in 2008 as the UK’s most northerly ARGO float. Over the next few years this remote unit will measure ocean... More ›
Doriana
Inuit Perspectives
Doriana from Victor Sammurtok School in Chesterfield Inlet Nunavut, Canada, joined Cape Farewell on the 2007 Youth Expedition. Cape Farewell YouTube channel › More ›
Ackroyd & Harvey
Carving the Snow Camera
Hear from artists Ackroyd & Harvey as they carve a ‘Snow Cam’ and create their glacial ‘Ice Lens’ during the 2005 Cape Farewell expedition. Cape Farewell... More ›
Salcantay & Humantay Glaciers
2009 Andes Expedition
The glaciers in Peru are severely threatened by climate change, watch Rhian Salmon and Charlie Kronick talk about the impact of this in the video. Hannah... More ›
John Cumming, Cecil Tait
Ditty Boxes
There is only so much expansion one can take. We go into our dying with a handful of memories, as an explorer might take a knife,... More ›
David Harradine/ Fevered Sleep
It's The Skin You're Living In
There is a man dressed like a bear. Like a polar bear. Sometimes he looks like a person dressed like a polar bear – human, fake... More ›
Matt Clark, UVA
High Arctic
“And now the general synopsis at 0048 hours on 31 December 2049…New ice, frazzle ice, pancake ice, brash ice, grey ice, leaping ice, fast ice, field... More ›
What if?
Lemn Sissay
A lost number in the equation. A simple, understandable miscalculation. And what if, on the basis of that, the world as we know it changed its... More ›
Ackroyd & Harvey
Polar Diamond
Using technology to accelerate a process that usually occurs naturally over millions of years, a diamond has been grown from graphite extracted from the cremated ash... More ›
Leafcutter Ants
Daro Montag
Film by Daro Montag For science stumbling and slogging in the jungle, nature mocking us In a boat down an amazon river – like a blood... More ›
Francesca Galeazzi
Justifying Bad Behaviour
This morning I walked across the fresh snow with a gas cylinder in my arms, containing 6kg of CO2. I took it across the unspoiled snow... More ›
Leonid Tishkov
Journey of the Private Moon
“Miracles can happen in this realm: the moon comes down from the heavens, glistening polar bears walk on ice floats, white clouds bathe in the sea... More ›
Nick Drake
The Farewell Glacier
“What is it like? That is a difficult question. You might think of a high-rise mega-city, Ice-filled penthouses, snow-stocked apartment towers And locked ziggurats – or... More ›
Liam Frost
Shipwrecks
Recorded on the bowsprit of the Noorderlicht in Turner Sound, Greenland during Cape Farewell’s 2007 Expedition. Click for more › More ›
The Great White Sale
David Buckland
“This image was made in a short window of time when the power of the video projector matches the light of dawn, when there is both... More ›
Chris Wainwright
Red Ice
Chris Wainwright, Red Ice, 2008 Arctic Expedition. Red Ice – White Ice is a series of photographs made by artist Chris Wainwright at night, whilst circling... More ›
Miriam Burke
on Deirdre Nelson's Bird Yarns
“For a week in June, I sat on Tobermory pier under a flock of knitted Arctic Terns. The terns had been knitted by residents of... More ›
Ana Cecilia Gonzales Vigil
Observing the Amazon - and hiding under a ''widow's net" from the mosquitoes
