For a limited time, Fen Ditton Gallery is hosting an exhibition celebrating artists’ responses to the natural world.

Rebecca Jewell, Sarah Gillespie, and Esther Tyson are exploring the threat of severe environmental change on the status and diversity of UK species, focusing on seaweeds, moths, and farmland birds. The exhibition will showcase works and research that has been developed during their artist residencies with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI).

Species declines lies at the heart of the biodiversity crisis, and CCI hosts IUCN’s Red List Unit, a hub for scientists assessing the status of animal and plant communities across the globe. CCI’s curator, John Fanshawe, believes the Red List can be a catalyst for interdisciplinary conversations about the meaning of species loss. “Enabling contemporary artists and scientists to collaborate and share new ways of expressing the crisis surrounding extinction, notably of less well-known species, is vital.”

By exploring seaweeds, moths, and farmland birds, Jewell, Gillespie, and Tyson are celebrating such species; species of the sea’s edge, of darkness and of exhausted field margins, plants and animals that quietly play pivotal roles in our world, but invariably risk bleeding away unsung.

For more information, visit Fen Ditton Gallery’s Website

More information about the CCI Arts programme here.

Exhibition opening times:
18 – 27 November 2022
Fridays 12 – 6pm
Saturdays and Sundays 10am – 6pm