CLIMATE CHANGE
An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Private View: Tuesday 12th November 2019 (5pm - 7pm)
Exhibition runs: Wednesday 13th – Sunday 17th November 2019, Open daily: 11am - 5pm
Ruth Davies
Teresa Hughes
Sarah Kniveton
Pippa Wrigley
Also featuring artworks from local schools
Four artists have come together, with an exhibition at 44AD artspace to raise awareness of climate change.
What is happening?
Paintings by Ruth Davies depict heat, flooding and protest. Ceramic sculpture ‘In Memoriam’ by Teresa Hughes illustrates the devastation caused to coral, while Sarah Kniveton illustrates the critical importance of water with her installation ‘Tipping Point’. Pippa Wrigley looks at how climate change could affect Bath and what can be done to mitigate it.
Ruth Davies
Ruth Davies’s paintings, with the use of brightly coloured acrylics, show the effects of the changing weather in various ways. These include bleached grass and fires in California, severe heat and flooding in Africa, hot weather in Morocco, smoke in the atmosphere and flooding in a British street. Ruth’s work portrays the current effects of climate change rather than predicting the future. Two paintings show protests by large numbers of people in London, many of them young, who are attempting to draw the country's attention to the problem.
Teresa Hughes
Teresa Hughes’s current work is influenced by the climate change crisis. Teresa is inspired by the way prehistoric people used art to convey cultural messages and strives to use her ceramic skills to similar effect in today’s world. From making a very basic pinch pot to constructing an elaborate sculpture, working with clay connects her existentially to this aspect of human history. ‘In memoriam’, a white porcelain column, depicts the natural beauty of the marine ecosystem that is now being lost due to human estrangement from the natural world.
Sarah Kniveton
Sarah Kniveton’s work is based around the tipping point of climate change and uses water as a metaphor.
It is based on observations of water in the environment, climate change and its predicted impact on freshwater supplies and sea level. Photography and screenprint are used to explore the nature of water and our relationship to it, creating a memorial for future generations to reflect upon. The imagery of cascades and waves have been chosen as symbols of the approaching tipping point of climate change.
Pippa Wrigley
Living in Bath, with its gentle climate, it is difficult to realise that we are in the midst of an emergency. However, damage is already being caused in other parts of the world by unprecedented climate changes.
Pippa Wrigley’s paintings show a panorama of what can be seen from Parade Gardens, in the centre of Bath.
How would we feel if we had violent thunderstorms, burning heat, hurricane force winds and torrential rain, which are all happening in other parts of the world? The paintings suggest that life on earth is precious and could be lost to climate change unless we take action now to mitigate it as much as we can.