THE TERRA MATER ARTISTS CONSIDER THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE Following a well-received show at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, the Terra Mater Art group visits the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro with Degrees, an interactive exhibition of paintings, ceramics, sculpture and jewellery considering the effects of climate change.
with Sarah Drew, and have a go at abstract painting with Karen McEndoo. Look out, too, for collaborative artwork within Cornwall. Members share a concern for the of us turning our planet into a desert like the exhibition. Also, 10% of sales will Arakis or Tatooine, or a drought-ridden escalating and alarming issues of global be donated to Cornwall Wildlife Trust, warming, climate change, biodiversity loss, place with dangerous storms, is sobering while the museum shop will stock related to say the least. We need to be the Rebel water and air pollution and deforestation. Alliance and resist the forces of greed that affordable eco-gifts. They have joined together to make The group hopes to spark discussions are ignoring the climate emergency.” a statement through their work and about what is happening now and likely Karen McEndoo’s paintings pay homage creative processes about the damage to occur in the near future, as well as to trees, especially those in towns and being inflicted on the planet, and the considering and suggesting possible increasingly devastating effects not just on cities, often damaged, pollarded, planted in solutions and methods to counteract the poor soil or just overlooked. “By depicting human society but also the animals and damaging increase in global temperatures. them as black spatial forms they become plants with which we share it. “Our shows are an invitation to others to negative spaces around which everything The show title Degrees refers to the work with us to grow a world in which we else tessellates, the blackness symbolising critical rise in temperature of two degrees. can all survive and thrive, protecting the the trees’ ability to absorb light, carbon and Eight local artists and makers have boundless beauty, diverse species and pollution in return for oxygen and lower considered the extent to which people will energy of the world around us.” l temperatures,” she explains. be affected by these changes, depending Terra Mater Art is a group of women
warning of what could happen if nature
artists and makers living and working in
is not protected,” she says. “The thought
not only on where they live on the planet
The exhibition will also feature paintings
(degrees of latitude and longtitude) but
by Dana Finch, ceramics by Laurel Keeley,
also on their social and economic situation.
art jewellery by Donna Burns and sculpture
Art jewellery maker Sarah Drew is planning a collection of big collage
by Whitney Manning. The exhibition aims to be as interactive
necklaces, wall panels and riveted found
as possible. Saturdays will see climate
plastic rings and brooches, all based
change-themed jewellery-making and
on her favourite sci-fi films such as Star
art workshops in collaboration with the
Wars and Dune. “Much as I love these
museum's art club (free for 11 to 18-year-
films, I think they can partly be seen as a
olds): make sci-fi inspired found jewellery
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Degrees runs at the Royal Cornwall Museum in River Street, Truro from February 15 to March 26. To check workshop dates and book spaces, email terramaterart@gmail.com For further information, www.terramaterart.com
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