Image credit: Cinda Manins, a CLIMARTE commissioned Timeline Trilogy artwork tracing 1) the deep time history of life on Earth, 2) the evolution of life on Earth, 3) an imagined future where life on Earth is in harmony. Made with string, hand made paper and other repurposed materials. Photo courtesy of Julian Meehan.
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Our understandings of the basic physics of climate change as well as its solutions date back to the early 1800s.
1824, greenhouse gas – the existence of what would later become known as the ‘greenhouse effect’ was proposed by French mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier.
1839, photovoltaic (PV) effect – at the age of 19 French physicist Alexander Edmond Becquerel observed and discovered the ‘photovoltaic (PV) effect’ which was the foundation for generating electricity from solar cells.
1873, solar energy – the first solar cells were in development.
1881, electric vehicles – what is likely the first electric vehicle was driven on Rue Valois in central Paris by French inventor Gustave Trouvé.
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As an important part of its advocacy, CLIMARTE has contributed many submissions to government inquiries dating back to 2010.
Image: Sharon Field, The Scrolls: 3,000 days…and counting, pen, archival ink and watercolour on watercolour paper, commenced 26 March (Earth Day) 2022, ongoing until Earth Day 2030.
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Over the last few years, CLIMARTE has produced and presented many exhibitions and associated public facing programs exploring the Climate Crisis in all its manifestations.
Image: from the opening of FLOW, 31 May 2023. Photo courtesy of Julian Meehan.
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CLIMARTE collaborates with artists, scientists and activists to create powerful, socially engaging projects.
Image: from the opening of Creative Constellations: Atlas of Radical Hope, 14 February 2024. Photo courtesy of Julian Meehan.
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CLIMARTE hosts special events bringing together artists, scientists, academics, researchers and civil society to engage in meaningful dialogue on effective action to address the Climate Crisis.
Image: from the community discussion held as part of Sharon Field’s The Scrolls: 3,000 days…and counting international tour launch, 6 October 2024. Photo courtesy of Julian Meehan.
Click to see past CLIMARTE eventsWe joined The Sustainable Hour podcast team for a fabulous discussion about what a genuinely renewable as well as socially and ecologically regenerative future looks like, and the vital roles artists and creative workers are playing in realising it.
It was great to have CLIMARTE's work featured on Amber Daines's engaging podcast 'The Politics of Everything'. Deborah Hart, Chair of CLIMARTE, discussed with Amber how the intersection of politics, business, and creativity shapes the urgent need for climate action.
On the eve of Australia's Federal election, we had a public discussion of the role street posters play in mobilising communities to demand a better future. The discussion was led by Dr. Clare McCracken, a CLIMARTE poster artist (2019) and recipient of Vice Chancellors scholarship for her practice-led research which sits at the intersection of art, cultural geography and urban theory.
What must we do in the next 11 years to act decisively to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change; and, how can culture move people from awareness to action to ensure a just and sustainable future for all life on Earth?
Sink your teeth into climate bites for info packed discussions with experts on food, water, fashion and nature. Take away practical knowledge and tips to bite back against our climate emergency.
Sink your teeth into climate bites for info packed discussions with experts on food, water, fashion and nature. Take away practical knowledge and tips to bite back against our climate emergency.
Sink your teeth into climate bites for info packed discussions with experts on food, water, fashion and nature. Take away practical knowledge and tips to bite back against our climate emergency.
This keynote will address why we need a cultural shift in response to the climate crisis, and why dedicated climate museums are a necessary, though not sufficient, component of that shift.
Sink your teeth into climate bites for info packed discussions with experts on food, water, fashion and nature. Take away practical knowledge and tips to bite back against our climate emergency.
Beka Economopoulos and Jason Jones are the co-founders of The Natural History Museum and Not An Alternative, a collective that works at the intersection of art, activism and theory.
ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 presented 33 socially engaged exhibitions and events at leading museums and galleries across Melbourne and regional Victoria. The 2019 festival considered ideas and concepts around art and activism, community engagement, transition and accelerated action on climate change.
Rewriting the Score was commissioned by Latrobe Regional Gallery in collaboration with CLIMARTE and incorporates painting, video and sound to address the energy transitions that are occurring in the Latrobe Valley.
Climate change has a scientific basis that is beyond question. In two significant papers written in the 1960s Japanese born American meteorologist and climatologist Suki Manabe developed a global mathematical model to simulate climate change.
At a time when facts can have ‘alternative facts’, news can be ‘fake’, and coal can be ‘clean’, ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 upholds a long tradition of art speaking truthfully and thoughtfully to power.
Artist and co-founder of The Canary Project Edward Morris discusses the diverse ways in which artists can contribute to social movements to address climate change.
Art, culture and environment are vital areas of contemporary intersection, generating exciting and thought-provoking explorations of ideas and creative thinking about the environmental conundrums of the 21st Century.
SHADOWS, Angela Viora: "Tracing the trees’ shadows on the ground with chalk, pedestrians see the traces the day after during the day-light, stepping onto them. Hopefully, they look up and see the beautiful trees standing next. I hope that these interventions will work as reminders to Melbournians of the importance of the work that trees do for us 24/7, incessantly, day and night."
Not Now, Not Ever is a techno-arachnid fantasy – a sing-and-dance-along to Julia Gillard’s ‘Misogyny Speech’ and a meditation on what it means to bring a girl into the twenty-first century.
We live in a strange moment in the history of the Earth. Humans are building cities, damming rivers, digging up fossil fuels and transforming the very face of the planet.
This event took place at Edmund Pearce Gallery Melbourne 5 February 2014
The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show is curated by Danish artist Søren Dahlgaard with deputy curators Elena Gilbert & Microclima.
Interview with William L. Fox, Director, Centre For Art + Environment (USA), 7 May 2015. Presented by ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2015
Interview with David Buckland, Director Cape Farewell, UK, 7 May 2015. Presented by ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2015
ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2015 is a festival of climate change related arts and ideas featuring curated exhibitions alongside a series of keynote lectures and public forums featuring local and international guests.
This event took place at Federation Square As Part Of The Sustainable Living Festival 29 April 2017 as part of ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE
The exhibition Earth and Sky curated by Hetti Perkins, features a selection of bark paintings by John Mawurndjul and Gulumbu Yunupingu, two of the most outstanding Australian artists of our time
Nevada Museum of Art asks us to imagine art, not just for art’s sake, but art that walks in the world; recording and archiving the human experience for present and future generations to learn and grow from.
Counting One to Four: Nature morte synthesises the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) findings revealing predicted mass species extinctions as global average temperatures increase by one to four degrees above pre-industrial levels.
This video was produced and created by festival Director Bronwyn Johnson and Guy Abrahams for CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 festival.