Art meets science at Pier Arts Centre presentation

Representatives of Cape Farewell, an international arts organisation, are presenting an evening of conversation and visual art at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, tonight.

Cape Farewell director, David Buckland, and associate director, Ruth Little, will give a talk at the Pier at 7.30pm.

Cape Farewell was created in 2001 by artist David Buckland to instigate a cultural response to climate change and is now an international not-for-profit organisation based at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre in London and with a North American foundation at the MaRS centre in Toronto.

The organisation works internationally, bringing artists, scientists and communicators together to work collaboratively and independently to consider the relationships between people, place and resources in the context of climate change.

David and Ruth will be joined on Thursday evening by Shetland-based Swan Trust chairman Allister Rendall and captain Michael Gray where they hope to begin a dialogue with Orkney’s cultural and environmental organisations about the shape and nature of Cape Farewell’s 2013 journey and its outcomes.

Ruth Little commented: “It would be great for like-minded individuals and organisations in Orkney to join David and I for an evening of presentations and conversation about ocean journeys, art and climate change.”

She continued: “David will introduce the pioneering interdisciplinary work of Cape Farewell, and I will discuss the ‘slow art’ of contemporary expedition in Cape Farewell’s ongoing Scottish islands project, Sea Change. We’ll be joined by representatives of the Swan Trust, with whom Cape Farewell is working in partnership to plan a research expedition of artists and scientists to Orkney, Fair Isle and Shetland in summer 2013.”