Tag: environment

  • Erasure

    Through painting, sculpture and film, three international artists ask us to reflect on ecological destruction and cultural erasure – and how we can work towards a better future

  • Isabel Rock: Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold

    Mutant crocodiles, slugs, rats and pigs populate a post-apocalyptic world, but despite the humour, Rock is deadly serious in her attempt to draw attention to the climate crisis and the state of our prison service

  • Jaeeun Choi: La Vita Nuova

    With projects including plans to drop seed bombs on Korea to studying what happens to paper if you bury it for years, this retrospective looks back over Choi’s 40-year career and her passion for nature and ecology

  • Stepping Softly on the Earth

    Twenty artists, mostly non-western and indigenous, consider how dam projects, diamond mining, monoculture and other human interventions have affected their lands and way of life

  • Tomás Saraceno in Collaboration: Web(s) of Life

    The Argentine artist-activist wants us to fall in love with spiders. His thoughtful Serpentine survey might just do the trick

  • Plastic: Remaking Our World

    Dundee’s V&A Design explores the fascinating history of this miraculous but now highly controversial material, and considers how we can rehabilitate it

  • Melissa McGill – interview: ‘One of my main influences is water’

    The multimedia artist reveals how a two-year stay in Venice shaped her career and why water features so often in her works, and explains her use of traditions and personal reflections to bring people together to address climate change

  • Khvay Samnang: Calling for Rain – Amartey Golding: Bring Me to Heal

    Khvay Samnang uses Cambodian dancers to conjure stories of environmental disaster and recovery, and Amartey Golding combines sculptures woven from human hair and the V&A’s opulent interiors to send a message about humanity’s potential for cruelty and also healing. They…

  • Adrian Berg – book review

    Marco Livingstone’s lavish book is a tribute to one of Britain’s finest landscape painters and its publication is accompanied by an exhibition of Berg’s works at the Frestonian Gallery in London

  • Emma Critchley – interview: ‘Being underwater where everything completely shifts interested me’

    She has worked with dancers in the world’s deepest swimming pool, with scientists investigating glacial retreats and others investigating the effect of noise pollution on the oceans’ inhabitants. She explains how her work responds to environmental crises