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It’s important that the things we are doing and the work we are profiling is accessible but ongoing to inspire and inform the debate. Artists are complex-systems thinkers: experimenting and taking risks is in the realm of what they do. The solutions are there – it’s just the political will and community organising that is key to it. Just a glance at human history shows that even when it gets really tough, people are hard-wired to seek justice and some days it feels not too far on the horizon.

Deborah Hart, Chair, CLIMARTE

Thrilled to have CLIMARTE’s work profiled in an Art Guide Australia feature interrogating the role of artists, art and culture in combatting climate change.

Please read the full article Can art combat climate change? by Andrew Stephens in Art Guide’s July 2024 issue here.

Image: Chelsea Hickman, DangerDangerDangerDangerDanger, 99% upcycled fabric scraps, fabric paint, aerosol paint, marker, 123cm x 190cm, 2020. Open Category Winner: 2020 Woods Street Youth Art Prize and Creative Constellations: Atlas of Radical Hope project submission.

Art is an effective tool in tackling the environmental breakdown by providing a deep reflection of a culture in crisis. “Art informs, inspires and engages. It gets under people’s ideological guards, opens hearts and minds to new ideas, new ways of perceiving and experiencing the world”.

Deborah Hart, Chair, CLIMARTE

Thrilled to have CLIMARTE’s work profiled in an article exploring how “artists can open hearts and minds to inspire environmental action, and help grieve the loss and damage already inflicted”.

Please read the full article By reflecting a world in crisis, art can be a powerful part of the climate solution by James Norman, published in The Guardian for its Change by Degrees column here.

Image: Climate Guardians defying France’s State of Emergency ban on protesting during COP21, December 2015. Photo by Maggie Miles.

Artists are some of the best-positioned people to communicate and help deliver progress towards a zero emission energy future. They are creative, complex systems thinkers who welcome challenges. Throughout history, artists have played a central role as cultural thought leaders.

CLIMARTE is calling for artists to be properly funded to help develop and communicate Climate Action Plans at emergency scale and speed.

Please read the full article in The Fifth Estate here.

We greatly appreciate Vu Consulting’s assistance to raise awareness of the role that art and culture plays in imagining new pathways towards the world we want.

Image: Eugenia Lim, The Coal Face (ScoMo), Poster Project II, 2019

It’s time science and facts replaced profits and power if we are to truly tackle pressing issues such as the climate crisis.

For insights into the role that CLIMARTE is playing in allowing artists to raise critical cultural questions around the current health of Australia’s democracy, please read ‘Truth in political advertising laws only the first step to eliminating the spread of misinformation’ by Deborah Hart, published by the Institute of Community Directors.

CLIMARTE is hugely appreciative of Vu Consulting’s support in helping us elevate the role that art and culture plays in speaking truth to power and shaping a world we want.

To read the article please click here.

CLIMARTE wholeheartedly supported Indigenous Australians having a Voice to Parliament.

We have been fortunate enough to both learn from and exhibit art by Indigenous artists whose work expresses the complex, beautiful, deep knowledge of their traditional lands, waters and culture.

We believe that all Australians will benefit from having a First Nations Voice included in the Constitution, ensuring Indigenous Australians have an effective say on the policies, programs and issues that affect them.

Particularly given the hostile tone of much of the ‘No’ campaign, we also feel compelled to help people better understand the sophisticated and aggressive tactics (and seemingly unlimited global fossil fuel funding) behind it.

Please read our full statement in support of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament here.

Kate Gorringe-Smith enters an urban forest, with the new group exhibition TREE at fortyfivedownstairs.
“In thoughtful and varied responses, the artists have chosen, as instructed, specific trees from the Urban Forest Visual Map as the subject of a new work. They have then stepped back to consider the personhood of that tree, just as an artist in the ever-popular Archibald might step back to consider how best to portray the individuality of their chosen human subject.”
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“In many ways the twenty-five works in this exhibition are yet more love-letters, created to thank, celebrate and mark – deeply and expressively – the individual significance of each of these wonderful living creatures that silently enrich our city. TREE spans solemnity and joy as the artists examine the profound significance of living alongside these giant beings that are so easily taken for granted, but which give and mean so much. To spend time with the works is to want to visit these trees and get to know them personally.”

Link: https://www.printcouncil.org.au/tree/

Since 2014, Pro Bono Australia’s Impact 25 awards have recognised individuals who are working to solve today’s greatest challenges through integrity, foresight, initiative and collaboration.

From the 25, three Judge’s Choice Awards are awarded for Innovation, Collaboration and Influence. From 450 changemakers, shortlisted to 150 nominees, the for-purpose sector has chosen its 25 most inspiring and influential people for 2022.