This project is a collaboration between Occhi Arts and Entertainment and Phoenix FTA Limited, a UK-based sustainability strategy consultancy. Inspired by the UK Creative Earth Competition, Occhi Arts and Entertainment, and Phoenix FTA Limited invited young artists worldwide to creatively engage with key topics of concern at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.
The initiative provided young artists with a renewed opportunity to visually express their views to world leaders and community stakeholders by producing 2D artwork (drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and photography) that supported the following themes:
1. Protect What You Love. Climate Change is giving rise to more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions, and an increase in the number, duration, and intensity of tropical storms. Glaciers are shrinking, plant and animal ranges are shifting or going extinct. Humans could save thousands of species from extinction if they act. ‘Protect What You Love’ encouraged participants to express their concerns, highlighting what they hold dearly and want to protect from the effects of climate change.
2. A future beyond neoliberal capitalism? With our societies forced into a truly deranged economic paradigm, one that landed us amid a terrifying climate emergency, it’s hard to imagine that the future of our human species lies beyond the patent immorality of neoliberal capitalism. A completely new system that puts equity and justice at its core is required. Young artists were invited to creatively express their interpretation of a “post-ecopathic” economic system via the mediums of drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and photography.
Image: Oceans of Time, Mary Bobson (Mariia Boborenko)
Together For Our Planet -2021 Publication
Participating artists
Mary Bobson
Sumali (Buki)
Ihiyo Chadwick
Emel Cevikcan
Vincenzo Cohen
Maria Coletsis
Josephine Florens
Ana Maria Guta
Michael Kwong
Wenwen Liu
Marcos Henrique Mello
Lu Meng
Kristina Mygul
Cody Norton
Bukunmi Oyewole
Froso Papadimitriou
Natalie Rusinova
Isa Sosa
O Yemi Tubi
Fazar R.A Wibisono
Yunqi Yang
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