Explorers Against Extinction – UK Charity 1177505 – has partnered with The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh to exhibit a remarkable collection of work highlighting climate change.
An invited group of Internationally renowned artists has created work featuring fossils, artefacts, and materials from the beach at Happisburgh, Norfolk, the home of Explorers Against Extinction, a UK conservation charity working to recover key species and restore ecosystems.
Happisburgh is the site of the earliest known human occupation in the UK, dating back 900,000 years. It will be one of the first UK communities lost to coastal erosion. As its sand cliffs are eroded, relics of extinct species and early humans who lived nearly one million years ago are exposed. Fossils from mammoths, elephants and rhinos are found on the beach, together with ancient flint tools and wood from drowned forests.
The collection invites us to consider the relationship between humans, climate change and extinction.
Artists and Photographers taking part include: Daniel Beltrá, Richard Deacon, Andy Goldsworthy, Michael Kenna, Richard Mosse, Michael Pinsky, Sebastião Salgado, Julian Stair, Jon Foreman, Beverly Joubert, Eleanor Lakelin, David Nash, Peter Randall-Page, Conrad Shawcross and Emily Young.
The Extinction Collection will be on display bewteen Saturday 21st September and Saturdau 19th October at THe Fine Art Society, 6 Dundas St, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ
