po-lar

Visual Arts Nova Scotia says:

Climate change is having an increasing impact worldwide. The polar regions of our planet are important indicators of climate change because they both reflect and compel changes throughout the globe. The landscapes of snow and ice are continuously melting and opening up, allowing and inspiring scientific research – research that is going further and deeper than ever before. The International Council for Science (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has named March 2007 to March 2009 International Polar Years, a programme gathering Arctic and Antarctic research from scientists all over the world.

But discovery is not only limited to science. With organizations such as Cape Farewell, artists are also visiting centers of the matter-at-hand and creating works that offer insightful and alternative interpretations of climate change and its effect on the polar regions and, thus, our globe. In acknowledgment of this important time for our environment, VANS invites our members to create work that explores changing landscapes, global impacts, displacement and discovery.

The above small painting will be my submission for po-lar: an upcoming members exhibition which will run from Tuesday, June 3 to Friday, August 29, 2008 in the Corridor Gallery, coinciding with the 2008 AGM on Saturday, June 7.

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