We’re back on the art trail this week, inspired by friends of this blog, Marina Walker and Ruaraidh Dobson’s successful What’s the Matter festival! (They did, after all, pip us to first place in the Breathe London storytelling awards).
During London Climate Action Week, the Clean Air Hub was a whole day of global and local policy discussions at London’s South Bank, organised by Clean Air Fund. Unfortunately Louise was only able to stay briefly as she was nipping to multiple other LCAW events, but was able to take in the art that served to inspire the conversation. We were introduced to the fantastic organisation, Our Kids Climate, which was displaying some kids’ artwork. They are a global family of changemakers working together to protect our kids from climate breakdown.
Sometimes the art is about awareness raising of the problems; sometimes about creating a vision for a lower-pollution future. Brockwell Park, near to us, was the lucky recipient of this exhibition of cycling photos. Close to our heart, as it was displayed where our daughters first learnt to cycle.
With apologies for the poor photos (too much sun!) it was a real celebration of how cycling can work for people of all ages, genders, abilities, backgrounds and for all purposes. Still there to see until 31 August!
And moving into crafts, Knitting the Air is getting bigger and better! We are excited to visit the latest exhibition next month and will do a deeper dive with the founder Caroline after that. As Great British Sewing Bee enthusiasts, we were excited to see the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Week creations inspired by pollution, but sad that none focused on the air. We realise this is a tough ask - air is (usually) invisible and all that - and would love to connect with anyone who has ideas on this front.
While we like to think we have our finger on the pulse of local air pollution art, it seems there is so much, we are not quite living up to that! This air pollution canary in Clerkenwell was erected and taken down before we were able to visit… and yes, we did walk around in circles trying to find it!
The Air Quality Communications Network has just featured five days of global air pollution art - follow on Linked In to see more!
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