CLIMARTE Poster Project sticks up for climate change action

MGC is honoured to be hosting an exhibition of the CLIMARTE Poster Project. Classes have been using the series displayed in the central corridor for inspiration all term since Bronwyn Johnson and her daughter Daisy Batten installed them in July. Please keep an eye out for the exhibition on the upcoming parent teacher evening or any time you come in for a visit.

Andrew Vance

Last year CLIMARTE commissioned 11 artists to design posters that engage the community on climate change action. The CLIMARTE Poster Project exhibition was held during April-May at the Carlton Connect Initiative, LAB 14 Gallery at The University of Melbourne, with 500 A0-sized posters displayed on poster sites around the City of Melbourne and surrounding suburbs. 

The commissioned artists were Angela Brennan, Chris Bond, Jon Campbell, Kate Daw, Katherine Hattam, Siri Hayes, Martin King, Gabrielle de Vietri and Will Foster, Thornton Walker, and Miles Howard-Wilks.

The posters convey the strength, optimism and urgency we need to move to a clean, renewable energy future. Each artist has imagined a completely different way to convey their feelings about these issues: from the didactic to the numinous, graphic to the abstracted. And yet every artist points to the necessity and benefits of transforming our economy and lifestyle from one based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy.

Guy Abrahams, CLIMARTE CEO and keynote speaker at MGC’s forthcoming Student Enviro Conference said “The CLIMARTE Poster Project is about provoking public dialogue, and influencing public and political opinion, by creating the empathy needed to bridge the gap between knowledge and action.”

Katherine Hattam, creator of the Renewable poster said, “My design highlights the optimistic and beautiful aspects of wind farms – how good is that!”

CLIMARTE will continue to commission artists to make posters and exhibit them at our forthcoming festival ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE to be held in April-May 2017. 

CLIMARTE is delighted to exhibit the Posters at MGC and looks forward to seeing the posters created by students at the annual Student Enviro Conference on 9 September (On the theme “The Great Barrier Grief”). We hope the Posters on exhibition and all those attending the conference will find inspiration and encouragement to help create the solutions urgently needed to lead us towards a just and sustainable future for all.

Bronwyn Johnson

Executive Director

CLIMARTE

Member of MGC Sustainability Committee