Cape Farewell Greenland Voyage 2007

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Beth Derbyshire
Artist (UK)

Beth’s work is inspired by drawing, dance/contact, communication and information systems. Through their creation and installation the work seeks to explore what it means to be an individual in a world where we, and our surroundings, are frequently categorised and classified.

Beth is currently developing the project Anthem, a trilogy of musical films, which explore, dissect and offer different concepts of ‘nation’. It is a truly epic project, expressing contemporary ideas about citizenship and nationality and investigating themes of human migration and borders.  The final part of the trilogy will be shot during the Cape Farewell Greenland expedition.

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Ben Jervey
Journalist (USA)

Ben is a freelance writer, environmental consultant, and ‘ecopreneur’ who, over the last decade, has been working towards a more sustainable life in New York City. He recently released a book to help others do the same, The Big Green Apple: Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Living in New York City.

Read Ben’s expedition blog ›
www.greenappleguide.com
www.evolvist.com

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Kathy Barber
Artist and Designer (Australia/UK)

Kathy has a background in graffiti art. She currently works with new media and the internet. She is a director of creative company Bullet and is designer of the Cape Farewell website, which was one of five winners in the e-Science category of the UN World Summit Awards, 2005. Kathy joined the 2004 Cape Farewell expedition and created the work ‘Here Today’ for Cape Farewell’s exhibition Art & Climate Change.

www.bulletclip.com

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Dr Simon Boxall
Oceanographer (UK)
Simon is a lecturer in Oceanography at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He has monitored ocean environments worldwide in force 11 gales and in the compete calm, from the air, space and underwater, tracking and monitoring pollution and environmental impact.

‘The sad thing is that everyone assumes that cutting back on our CO2 emissions will necessarily be painful and expensive! For the average person in the street using less power, having better insulated homes, and more economical transport, will save them money and saves our environment and lifestyle. It’s a win/win situation.”
Dr Simon Boxall

www.noc.soton.ac.uk

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Vicky Long
Artist and Cape Farewell Project Director (UK)

Vicky has a background in theatre and scenography. Since 2005 she has produced exhibitions, events and film for Cape Farewell. Vicky enjoys working with a wide range of artists, to create work that gets right to the heart of what it is to be living today. She has worked in the UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic, India and Hong Kong and is excited by the internationalism of the Cape Farewell voyages in 2007. Vicky is also a voice-actor and singer and will keep a voice diary on the expedition, as well as recording poems, stories and songs, pertinent to the sea, the ice and our changing climate.

“Here is an opportunity for change. It will be exciting to look back in 30 years time and think, I was a part of that change.”
Dr. Chris West, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University

Cape Farewell launched its first international Youth Expedition and fourth Art Science voyage on Sunday 9th September at Southbank Centre. Hundreds of well wishers cheered the twelve students on their way, as the expedition launched on the Thames to a brass fanfare from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Embarking on a landmark arts, science and media project, the students will voyage from Longyearbyen to the frozen extremes of Spitsbergen, Svalbard in the High Arctic.

The youth team were joined by members of the Art/Science crew, including Marcus Brigstocke, Kathy Barber and David Buckland.

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Brian Jungen
Artist (Canada)

Brian is a key figure in Vancouver’s art community. In 2006, an exhibition of Jungen’s work was held at Vancouver Art Gallery and in the UK, Jungen exhibited People’s Flag at the Tate Modern. Jungen’s practice re-crafts modern commodities into sculptural objects, entertaining a dialogue between his first-nation ancestry, the global economy and the object of art.