We also showcased the young poets and YPNers who rose to the SWITCH Challenge series at an evening event at Rich Mix, London, featuring newly commissioned work, a commendation from Ian McEwan, and a stunning range of powerful young performers.
‘You rose magnificently to a very, very difficult challenge…driving towards a consideration of the specific, the detail, the hard-edged thinginess of the world under threat’
(Ian McEwan on SWITCH).
A sheaf of wheat pressed into Arctic snow. Image credit: Nick Cobbing / Cape Farewell More ›
Clare Twomey’s Blossom was a major Cape Farewell commission launched in 2007/08 at the Eden Project. The vast and delicate work comprised thousands of fragile... More ›
David Buckland – Ice Texts, 2003 ‘Burning ice, The Cold Library of Ice, Sadness Melts: Texts projected on a glacier wall as the captain manoeuvres the... More ›
This picture is taken from a project by the artist Sunand Prasad. The red balloons represent C02 emissions. Together the balloons mark out a cube representing... More ›
A photograph from the artist Leonid Tishkov’s ‘Private Moon’ series – with Cape Farewell’s expedition boat, the Noorderlicht, in the background. Credit: Leonid Tishkov / Cape... More ›
The Aurora Borealis (or Northern Lights) is caused by the collision of charged particles, carried on solar winds, with the earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Cape Farewell,... More ›
Photographer David Buckland projects the ‘shadowy form of a pregnant woman walk[ing] over black ice, her body serving to remind us of our responsibility to unborn... More ›
What If? is a powerful examination of the direction that ‘evolution’ has taken the human race in the 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of... More ›
We also showcased the young poets and YPNers who rose to the SWITCH Challenge series at an evening event at Rich Mix, London, featuring newly commissioned... More ›
Celebrating the first year of SWITCH, we made a short film to present an inspiring year of creative schools workshops – led by poets Karen McCarthy... More ›
The renowned writer and Cape Farewell Patron Ian McEwan took big interest in the Switch competition and had addressed all his fellow writers at the final... More ›
The decision on who is going to win was a difficult one there were quite a few excellent submissions. Well done to all! The runners-up for... More ›
The final challenge was to write a poem that contained the things you would put in a box to represent humanity if aliens landed in the... More ›
Challenge three was to write a collage poem that explores the causes and effects of climate change, using information gathered from notebooks and freewrites responding to... More ›
The prompt for the second challenge was to write a poem in the voice of an animal that has to leave its home. Mary Anne Clark... More ›
The winner of the first challenge is Jamie Uy, a very promising young poet. The challenge was to take on the theme of consumerism responding to... More ›
Daro Montag 03/07/2009, 11:04am “Everything is carbon in motion. Even the butterfly is carbon in flight.” More ›
Hanna Tuulikki’s Air falbh leis na h-eòin (Away with the Birds in Gaelic) is a vocal piece investigating the relationship between the Scottish Gaelic tradition and... More ›
From Geoff Sample’s Artist Diary from Away With The Birds, 2012: The deep throb of the ferry’s engines provides an accompaniment to the journey and transports... More ›
“I haven’t been able to sleep much, and some of the best thoughts I’ve had on this voyage have been in the place between dreams and... More ›
Bird Yarns brings together knitters from Mull and across the UK and beyond, with textile artist Deirdre Nelson in response to the changing migration patterns of... More ›
Having just hiked for 3 weeks through the Peruvian Amazon, the author of Life of Pi Yann Martel reflects on how this experience and the acquired... More ›
X, Y, Z Generation from Karen McCarthy Woolf on Vimeo. At some point every generation thinks it’s the last. This usually happens when people are young... More ›
Forest for the Trees is a meditation on the complex relationship between nature and industry; sustained land vs commodified land; matter on the surface of the... More ›
This snow was near where some fish had been caught and prepared for eating. More ›
Greenpeace composite image showing the glacier Blomstrandbreen has retreated nearly 2 km since 1928, with an accelerated rate of 35 metres lost per year since 1960... More ›
Loud noise, crust or hardness formed on the earth by the weather, shower that comes suddenly, mountain torrent, twisted or misshapen foot or ankle,... More ›
