Changing Landscapes – Ackroyd & Harvey

Changing Landscapes
World Art Collections Exhibitions, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Beuys’ Acorns
In 2007, Ackroyd & Harvey collected and germinated hundreds of acorns from Joseph Beuys’s seminal artwork 7000 Oaks and to date have about 250 surviving saplings. In its first phase their artwork is a long-term research project aiming to generate discussion and reflection on scientific, political and creative economies and the cultural and environmental significance of trees.

Stranded 2006
In 2005, working closely with the Cetacean Stranding Programme at London’s Natural History Museum, Ackroyd & Harvey removed the skeleton of a minke whale washed up in Skegness, Lincolnshire, on the UK’s east coast. The artists cleaned the whalebones and then immersed them one by one in a highly saturated alum solution, encrusting the skeleton with a chemical growth of ice-like crystals. This is a work born out of the artists voyages to the High Arctic with Cape Farewell. A 17 min film documenting the artists removing the skeleton, cleaning and crystallizing it, accompanies the work.

9 March – 28 July 2013

Changing Landscapes combines rarely displayed works of art from the Sainsbury Centre collections together with stimulating new projects and commissions by visiting artists and academics, showing a whole variety of current thinking about landscape and environmental issues.
There are also art-making areas where you can contribute to the display, and a library and resource area available for study or group discussions.
Admission is free.
This exhibition is part of a new EU Interreg funded project, which is a collaboration until 2015 between the Sainsbury Centre, Fabrica art gallery in Brighton and three institutions in the Pas de Calais and Normandy in northern France.
If you would like to get involved with Changing Landscapes, contact the Sainsbury Centre education team on 01603 593726.

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Also :

Considering Landscapes
22 March 2013
10.30am –  4.30pm
Further talks to be announced for June

Join artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate Change, UEA and John Burton, CEO World Land Trust, Tom Williamson, Director of UEA Landscape Group and Benedict Binns of Adapt, to discuss issues arising from Beuys’ Acorns.