Climate Action Plan

We are in the midst or an existential crisis, unparalleled to anything the world has ever faced, and it is disproportionally affecting the worst off in our world: we all need to respond.

The deterioration of our climate and planet is distressing but recognising where we are is the first step in making a positive contribution towards tackling the crises. All journeys start with a single step and summoning the courage to climb the mountain in front or us and we all need to take steps in this journey.

Our organisation is no different. We feel the responsibility to use our cultural privilege to raise awareness of the climate emergency and the positive actions that can make a difference. We began climbing our mountain by looking at ourselves, our programme, our suppliers, our ethos, and have plotted a series of steps to play our role and now present them in this inaugural Climate Action Plan (CAP).

Adapting everyday elements from our daily lives does make a difference and contributes to the solution. You might feel taking bigger steps to support global causes is required (and if you do all power to you), or you could just make sure you are doing your recycling correctly; either way your personal contributions are crucial and count. Our CAP is informed by collective research and team work that delved into the resources of the galleryclimatecoalition.org.

By challenging and questioning our behaviours we’ve devised a series of climate commitments that we feel are required and achievable. Some represent small steps, some larger but we are committed to taking them, being part of the solution and not further telling the problem.

We recognise the platform our galleries, studios and digital spaces create and the powerful messages artists and their work can convey.

Therefore as part of this CAP we have launched our Art for Climate Action (AfCA) programme.

AfCA supports artists to talk about the climate issues they feel passionate about and the actions we the public can take. To date artists have presented concerns and actions about rising sea levels and climate refugees, re-wilding to make our city greener, reproductive choice and climate activism. As the programme develops we will continue to support artists to make work they feel is important, pressing, and requires public attention.

We hope our work leads to and increased public awareness of the steps you can take in climbing your own mountain.

 

Our projects

The following projects are examples of our ongoing work as an arts organisation to honour our Climate Action commitments.