Greenhouse Britain
Tuesday 26 February 7.30pm
Old Market Hall Film and Digital Media Centre, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
This event brings to Shrewsbury the eminent American ecological artists, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison. It has been organised to complement the exhibition Greenhouse Britain, showing at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery until Saturday 1st March. Greenhouse Britain, a new touring exhibition by the Harrisons and their British associates, dramatically addresses the rising sea levels likely to be caused by climate change. It features a multimedia video projection onto a giant topographic model of mainland Britain, showing the waters gradually redrawing the coastline.
The Harrisons have exhibited worldwide since the 1960s and are widely acknowledged as pioneers of socially-engaged contemporary art practice.
Other speakers will include David Haley, Sheilagh Jevons and The Cloud Gallery Collective. The exhibition Greenhouse Shropshire ‘... like there’s no tomorrow’, also at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, is co-curated by Haley, Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University and associate artist with the Harrison Studio in the UK, and Shropshire-based Jevons, who has established a reputation both in the UK and abroad for her work as an artist and activist.
Artists from The Cloud Gallery Collective have created an installation in The Music Hall Gallery, Shrewsbury, to promote their ideas for an art gallery that has a low carbon footprint and is environmentally and economically sustainable. A follow-up event, Thinking Space, will discuss this project in detail on 27th February, from 10.00am – 1pm, in The Clive Suite at The Music Hall. Keynote speakers are John Thornes, Professor of Applied Meteorology from Birmingham University’s School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Mark Newall of architects Baart, Harries, Newall.
Both events are free but booking is strongly advised as places are limited. Contact Box Office: 01743 281281.
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