Category: Sydney+NSW

Dean Sewell / Oculi/Agence VU / Greenpeace

Come down to Sydney’s beautiful Royal Botanical Gardens to view Greenpeace’s latest photo exhibition ‘Changing Climates’. The exhibition showcases a selection of powerful images from award-winning photographers around the globe capturing extreme weather events and their aftermath.  The images explore the essence of climate change – the people and places, impacts and actions. As Australia passes an historic tax on a price on carbon pollution, these images show what is at stake.

The exhibition is staffed every day by Greenpeace volunteers and runs from Wednesday 2 until Monday 14 November so if you’re in Sydney come down and say hi and take a look at the photos. They’re hanging in the Palm House in the Royal Botanical Gardens. Opening times are 10am – 4pm and admission is free.

For more information please see http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/en/what-you-can-do/events/Changing-Climates-A-Greenpeace-photo-exhibition-/

Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November 11am-5pm.

During the course of his eight week residency which is supported by the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan Vincent has embarked on a new body of work entitled The Atlantis Project.

The Atlantis Project uses an aquarium tank to house coral reefs growing on miniature sculptures of iconic landmarks of civilized and capitalist society. With the concept of creating a modern day Atlantis city, where all that is known to civilized mankind will be flooded over by the rising sea levels. The corals are free to develop and grow until all its resources within the aquarium are fully consumed, and eventually inducing a coral bleaching event where they die off. Under the microcosm of the aquarium, the project wishes to show metaphorically the limitations of Mother Earth’s resources. As a subset of the Earth’s vast system, the human behavior of unrelentingly seeking for infinite growth will inevitably lead to extinction.

The Open Studio will also showcase paintings from Huang’s climate change series.

Artspace Sydney 43 – 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW

More information: Vincent J.F. Huang