Eden Project and Cape Farewell collaboration

Pioneering the cultural response to climate change

Cape Farewell pioneers the cultural response to climate change. Working internationally, it brings artists, scientists and communicators together to stimulate the development of new artworks founded in scientific research.

Cape Farewell engages artists for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating on a human scale the urgency of the global climate challenge and is widely acknowledged to be the most significant sustained artistic response to climate change anywhere in the world.

The collaboration with Eden

The Cape Farewell project is a wonderful example of how to explore issues and initiate discussions around climate change in an engaging, compelling and moving way, which is also positive and forward-thinking. Eden's founder and CEO, Tim Smit

In 2007, Cape Farewell began a long-term collaboration with the Eden Project. Throughout this collaboration, Cape Farewell will present new artworks on site and play a vital part in the development of Eden’s creative and environmental agendas.

Cape Farewell and the Eden Project will continue working into the future. Through a series of residencies and site-specific works Cape Farewell artists will surprise and engage, and illuminate the evolving climate change narrative. Cape Farewell and the Eden Project share the ambition to communicate, through creative means, the need for a more sympathetic relationship between humans and the planet.

Cape Farewell latest: The Disko Bay Expedition

This September Cape Farewell returns to the Arctic, visiting the spectacular Disko Bay area with a team of over 40 international cross-disciplinary artists, journalists and scientists to build on the work begun in 2007. You can follow the latest blogs below...

Bringing together artists, climate scientists and educators

Since 2003 Cape Farewell has brought scores of artists, climate scientists and educators together on five research voyages to the High Arctic. From these expeditions has sprung an extraordinary body of artwork now exhibited across the UK (London, Oxford, Liverpool, Newcastle, Folkestone and Cornwall), in Europe (Oslo, Brussels, Hamburg, Madrid, Monaco and Munich), in North America (Colorado, Chicago and New York City) and in Japan (Tokyo). They have also produced a publication (Burning Ice – Art and Climate Change), a BBC film and DVD (Art from the Arctic), Max Eastley’s Arctic CD, educational resources for GCSE Geography and Science and a UN award-winning website.