United Visual Artists, High Arctic 2011 (Immersive Installation, National Maritime Museum).

"Barry Lopez, in Arctic Dreams, the holy book about the Arctic as far as I am concerned, wrote; ‘you have to change your mind to begin to understand the Arctic.’ Beguiled by its beauty, we slowly began to learn how to think about this landscape, how to look at it carefully, and to start to understand how human activity – exploitation of animal life and minerals, pollution from our factories and cities to the south, and climate change itself – is causing incalculable damage to this winter Eden. The science is complex; the truth of what’s happening isn’t. But it is confronting, in all sorts of ways. I’ve tried to write about this in the poems in which Mercury, Methane and the Ice Core Sample speak."

Introduction to the poems – Nick Drake.

Photo credit: John Adrian (www.johnadrian.co.uk)

All images are the copyright of the artist and cannot be used "in any way" without their expressed consent. Text used with the permission of Cape Farewell (www.capefarewell.com); with acknowledgment to the National Maritime Museum (www.nmm.ac.uk), Nick Drake and United Visual Artists (www.uva.co.uk).