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

"Matt Clark and I decided we wanted to ‘unfreeze’ Arctic voices from the deep past and into the future, to 2100 when it seems inevitable now that there will be no more summer Arctic sea ice. We wanted to trace the stories of the European engagement with the Arctic in all their curiosity, delight, disaster, euphoria and exploitation. We wanted the voices to talk to each other across time, as well as to the visitor as she makes her way through the installation. Reading in the papers recently about the new ‘cold’ rush to exploit the mineral riches of the Arctic reminds me Europeans were already exploiting the Arctic in the time of Shakespeare. It’s just that now, what’s at stake really is the future."

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).