“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 message and ice. This fleeting moment of human excess is so short, two hundred years, but for the glacier it is barely a single breath taken.”
David Buckland
Artwork by David Buckland. Text by Amy Balkin.
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 ›
