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“Art is a way of making the invisible visible, that’s why I’m part of this project. It’s about awareness, about getting everybody on board. Politicians say people aren’t ready, but they are ready. We can’t go back, there’s no turning back now – it’s a red alert, it’s a public ...
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Breathe:2022 by Dryden Goodwin
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Photo by Jules ListerPart of Wild Eye This artwork has been created in the shape of a dolos – a form normally used as a defence to prevent coastal erosion. The sculpture is purposely only partially formed as it is intended to be completed by snowfall. The artist, Ryan Ga...
We are only human (Incomplete sculpture for Scarborough to be finished by snow), 2022 | Ryan Gander
Welcome Green Light: Programming for Environmental Responsibility was designed to inspire and support people working in the cultural sector to embed environmental themes in their creative work. At a time of increasing public support for addressing urgent environmental ch...
Green Light: Programming for Environmental Responsibility
“Art is a way of making the invisible visible, that’s why I’m part of this project. It’s about awareness, about getting everybody on board. Politicians say people aren’t ready, but they are ready. We can’t go back, there’s no turning back now – it’s a red alert, it’s a public ...
Breathe:2022 by Dryden Goodwin
Echoes of Disruption, 2021 Digital video, 18 min. Courtesy of the artists Echoes of Disruption is video entry 11543.1 from the laboratory log-book of time-travelling researchers, with journal notes narrated by an Artificial Intelligence program. Having travelled back to ...
Dubmorphology – UnNatural History Commissions
love letter to the mystery (wavertree park) Frances Disley (born 1976, based in Liverpool, UK) Love letter to the mystery (Wavertree Park), 2021 Digital video, 13 min 41 sec, Courtesy of the artist Frances Disley’s sculptures and film-works are a response t...
Frances Disley – UnNatural History Commissions
hiber nation 20/21 Tania Kovats (born 1966, based in Devon, UK) in collaboration with Benjamin Wigley (born 1979, based in Nottingham, UK) hiber nation 20/21, 2020-21 Digital film, 9 min 28 sec. Courtesy of the artists and Parafin Gallery, London In this new...
Tania Kovats – UnNatural History Commissions
The mouth of the ground Gözde İlkin (born 1981, based in Istanbul, Turkey) The Mouth of the Ground, 2021 Video, 13 min 33 sec. Courtesy of the artist and artSümer, Istanbul Gözde İlkin drew inspiration for the newly commissioned work on view at the Herbert fr...
Gözde İlkin – UnNatural History Commissions
Christina Agapakis, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Sissel Tolaas / Doug Aitken / Angela Brazil / Gerard Byrne / David Claerbout / Mat Collishaw / Dorothy Cross / Frances Disley / Dubmorphology / John Gerrard / Alex Hartley / Andy Holden / Gözde İlkin / Tania Kovats / Michael L...
UnNatural History – A major new exhibition exploring natural history and climate change curated by Invisible Dust
“Where I’m from, we walk backwards into the future. Everything known, everything that has happened so far is what we face. Behind us is the unknown. Where we are going.” We’re excited to present the new short film ‘ E Kū mālo`elo`(To Stand Firm)’ by ...
‘E Kū mālo`elo`e (To Stand Firm)’ – Ahilapalapa Rands
“Woven Time: A Girdle of Fig Leaves” is a video in the form of a dream premonition. In dialogue with a particularly lovely patch of mud visual artist Adam Chodzko speculates about what art might need to become next and what new ways it might be used, in order to make a path of...
‘Woven Time: A Girdle of Fig Leaves’ – Adam Chodzko
At a time of such fragility and uncertainty, we present our first FORECAST art commission ‘Forecasting: Interesting Worlds‘. Created by acclaimed Chinese artist Fei Jun in collaboration with 13 co-creators from across the world, this new work asks us to consider t...
Forecasting: Interesting Worlds – Fei Jun
Dark Interludes Grief expands and contracts temporalities. The breath in deliberately occupies space The pause elongates the moment The release amplifies a remembering All to be repeated in a ritual of remembering, and remembering, and… To be enveloped by the...
Dark Interludes – Michelle St Anne and Julie Vulcan with the Living Room Theatre
Invisible Dust, in collaboration with Humber Museums Partnership commissioned Juneau Projects to develop ‘Shoreline, Skyline, Treetop Messenger’ – a work inspired by North Lincolnshire Museum’s natural history collection, focussing specifically on its col...
Juneau Projects – Shoreline, Skyline, Treetop Messenger
Invisible Dust are delighted to be partnering with the National Maritime Museum London for a second time to produce an artist’s residency with photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva. Originating from Tiksi in Russia, Evgenia frequently travels back to her homeland in...
Evgenia Arbugaeva – Stories from the Russian Arctic
Hand-coloured maps by contemporary artist, Kathy Prendergast, and teaching maps by female geography students from Bedford College (now Royal Holloway, University of London) are brought together in this exhibition. These maps encourage the viewer to look beyond the surface and ...
Kathy Prendergast – Strata
‘Wastescape’, by British artist Gayle Chong Kwan, explored New Zealand’s relationship to food and waste in a large-scale, immersive art installation using thousands of plastic milk bottles. In the New Zealand context Chong Kwan’s ‘Wastescape’ explored the effects of the contro...
Gayle Chong Kwan – Wastescape
Brazilian-born artist Rodrigo Lebrun introduces us to the imaginary town of ‘Sunthorpe’ and its popular tourist attractions. His video installation uses an intentional typo, Sunthorpe (Scunthorpe), to express unrealised utopias, current challenges and future aspirations. Lebru...
Rodrigo Lebrun – Green (Screen) Dreams
‘Shore: How We See the Sea‘ brought together filmmakers, curators and marine scientists together in nine locations across Scotland to inspire, explore and share coastal communities’ responses to Marine Protected Areas two years after the legal designation of MPAs i...
Margaret Salmon and Ed Webb-Ingall – Shore: How We See The Sea
‘Encounters’ was part of the worldwide events on the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific in 1768. Artists Ahilapalapa Rands and Fiona MacDonald: Feral Practice created new commissions for an exhibition at Whitby Library. ‘The Oceanic Reading Room’ and...
Ahilapalapa Rands and Fiona MacDonald: Feral Practice – Encounters
‘Under Her Eye’ comprised of a high-profile Summit (Friday 1st June) hosted at the British Library Conference Centre, followed by a festival of public art installations and workshops across King’s Cross (Saturday 2nd June) that invited the public to consider and experience cli...
Under Her Eye 2018: Women and Climate Change
A Director’s Lab Presentation from award-winning filmmaker Margaret Salmon on her film for ‘Shore: How We See the Sea’, a touring multi-arts and science project reflecting Scotland’s coastal communities’ responses to Marine Protected Areas. Margaret discussed the researc...
Margaret Salmon – Shore at Under Her Eye
Presented in the British Library Piazza Marquee, artist Gayle Chong Kwan hosted a very special multi-course banquet where guests were invited to taste locally produced food, sip bespoke cocktails, explore sensory rituals and enjoy a range of creative activities. Inspired...
Gayle Chong Kwan – At the Crossroads: Microclimate Sensory Banquet at Under Her Eye
‘Human Sensor LDN’ by artist Kasia Molga, is a large-scale digital and performance artwork that explores Londoners’ daily exposure to air pollution through a combination of cutting-edge wearable technology and dance. Wired up to a series of breathing and air pollution data sen...
Kasia Molga – Human Sensor LDN
Fifteen young women multidisciplinary PhD researchers from universities throughout the UK were selected to take part in a new ‘Under Her Eye’ Fellowship produced by acclaimed arts and science organisation Invisible Dust. This initiative was inspired by ‘Under Her Eye’ 2018 spe...
Under Her Eye Fellowship Programme
‘The Sewerby Cookbook’ combines local contemporary and historical recipes within a collaborative publication looking through the lens of cooking and archiving to explore how our relationship to food and food culture has changed over time. The cookbook was created by internatio...
Ahilapalapa Rands – The Sewerby Cookbook
Human well-being is directly affected by the health of our seas, yet public awareness of many of the challenges facing the marine environment remains low. For decades, researchers have investigated issues such as non-native species, climate change, pollution, overfishing, and ...
Blueprint: Future of Our Seas
‘Milling About’ by Laura Wilson is a film exploring the region’s history of growing grain and producing flour for baking bread. Inspired by the archaeological collections in the museum, Wilson worked with archaeologist Dr. Melanie Giles, University of Manchester, to explore th...
Laura Wilson – Milling About
Invisible Dust produced an exciting programme of artworks for the Scarborough Seafest in 2017. The event included a new film and Q&A on ‘Avoiding Green’ by Phil Coy about local fishermen. Visitors were invited to watch ‘Coral Love Story: Chapter #1’ by Kasia Molga – ...
Onshore at Scarborough Seafest
‘Offshore: artists explore the sea’ examined the many contrasting ways that the sea has shaped our culture, our imaginations and our physical existence through mythical sea monsters, superstition and seaside traditions as well as trade and travel. While inherently without bord...
Offshore: artists explore the sea
The title of this piece ‘Tehom’ is the Hebrew word for the Deep or the Abyss. In August 2016 award-winning fantasy fiction writer China Miéville travelled to Bermuda to follow in the footsteps of American naturalist William Beebe eight decades before. He descended the depths o...
China Miéville – Tehom
Inspired by the walled garden at Normanby Hall and Gardens ‘Microclimate’ was an installation of photo-collages and cucumber straighteners, plus a sensory banquet created by artist Gayle Chong Kwan. The work explored the history of the gardens, seasonality and the politics of ...
Gayle Chong Kwan – Microclimate
Created by Design Futurist Kasia Molga, ‘Human Sensor’, is a performance of wearable costumes that respond to air pollution levels. Wired up to a series of breathing and air pollution data sensors, the dancer’s costumes illuminate in a response to pollution levels – pulsing wi...
Kasia Molga – Human Sensor
‘Rock Music’ by Owl Project is a performance building on the collectives previous experiments with prehistoric technology. Owl Project are interested in how rhythms are the creators of forms and also one of the foundations of music. They have explored making electronic music f...
Owl Project – Rock Music
‘Deep Above’ attempts, through art, to loosen our mental blocks about environmental catastrophe. We appreciate, intellectually, its potentially devastating impact on our planet and yet simultaneously we distance ourselves from feeling this danger, diverting our belief into fan...
Adam Chodzko – Deep Above
Artist Phil Coy undertook a residency at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Space, the largest Space Science research department in Europe. Coy was interested in the history of ocular vision as it relates to the interrelationship with space based Earth Observation. His fi...
Phil Coy – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Space Residency
Artist Laura Harrington works within mediums including film, drawing and installation and is interested in the natural world and how humans understand and interact with it. A shared interest in upland environments and peat as a lively and dynamic material, provided the impetus...
Laura Harrington – The Liveliest of Elements, an Ordinary Extraordinary Material
Invisible Dust worked with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to exhibit works by artists Mariele Neudecker, Adam Chodzko and Eve Mosher in the museums’ RE·THINK space. It was the first time the artworks were shown in London and the intervention was part of the ‘Invisib...
RE·THINK: Environment
“The ‘HighWaterLine’ is a spark for conversation and also to start discussing solutions and to bring together all the people who are connected by this line .” – Heidi Quante. Director, Creative Catalysts. ‘HighWaterLine’ was a collaborative project between artist Eve...
Eve Mosher – HighWaterLine Bristol
‘Disappearing Nature: artists supporting life on earth’ presented an artists insight into the peril of endangered plant and animal species around the world, highlighting humankind’s effect and cause. It raised questions around whether nature exists separate from human in...
Disappearing Nature: artists supporting life on earth
‘Ways of Seeing Climate Change’ brought together artists and scientists to explore climate change and gave them the opportunity to plan ideas together on a future funded project. The event included workshops on climate change and action, health, fuel poverty, carbon footprint ...
Ways of Seeing Climate Change Symposium
At the ‘Ways of Seeing Climate Change’ event as part of the Manchester Science Festival, artist Ellie Harrison invited event participants to take part in ‘Anti Capitalist Aerobics’ a ‘revolutionary new exercise programme’. The artwork engages delegates in an energy intensi...
Ellie Harrison – Anti Capitalist Aerobics
‘SUNLIGHT’, Elizabeth Price’s large-scale video installation drew on historic slide imagery of the sun. ‘SUNLIGHT’ was Price’s first solo exhibition in a public gallery since winning the Turner Prize in 2012 and was developed as part of her Invisible Dust residency with the Ru...
Elizabeth Price – Sunlight
Mariele Neudeker’s deep sea and arctic works created in collaboration with scientists and the curatorial support of Invisible Dust were shown at HOUSE 2013, Brighton Festival. “The intention was to capture the lifestyle of the Inuit people and deconstruct the elements that...
Mariele Neudecker – Heterotopias and Other Domestic Landscapes
For ‘Breathe’, artist Dryden Goodwin created over a thousand drawings of a five year old boy (his son) inhaling and exhaling air. Combining the drawings to create an animation, this showed the boy’s fluctuating breathing patterns, at some moments regular, and at others more la...
Dryden Goodwin – Breathe
For ‘Bats in Space’, artist Jeremy Deller worked in collaboration with Professor Kate Jones, Chair in Ecology and Biodiversity jointly at University College London and the Zoological Society of London. As part of the project, Deller lead bat walks in London that invited partic...
Jeremy Deller – Bats in Space
London 2012 Olympic artist Faisal Abdu’Allah collaborated with professional athletes and world-class leading scientists to create ‘Double Pendulum’, a film exploring breathing and movement. As part of CREATE 11 festival, over 500 people attended the film premiere, screened out...
Faisal Abdu’Allah – Double Pendulum
Norwich based collective, other/other/other, presented ‘A Good Clean Run’ a project that explored air quality along a city centre route and its effects on residents health. The project aimed to investigate the deterioration of respiratory and pulmonary health caused by poor ai...
other/other/other – A Good Clean Run
Commissioned by Invisible Dust, ‘The Bowthorpe Experiment’, by Townley and Bradby was an evening cycle tour designed to see the future of Norwich. The work was a collaboration between Townley and Bradby, Magnificent Revolution, and Jonathan P Watts that it took place on three ...
Townley and Bradby – The Bowthorpe Experiment
Liz Ballard worked with Dr Kevin Hiscock, a hydrologist from the University of East Anglia who specialises in water pollution. Ballard had been exploring the effects of pollution and climate change in East Anglia, in particular water pollution in the River Wensum that runs thr...
Liz Ballard – Tracing Water
To create ‘in clean air we fly’, artist Kaffe Matthews collaborated with 40 children from Shacklewell and Colvestone primary schools in Dalston to explore the possibilities of city transport without pollution and its related health and environmental effects. Together they inve...
Kaffe Matthews – In Clean Air We Fly
Wild Eye
Photo by Jules ListerPart of Wild Eye This artwork has been created in the shape of a dolos – a form normally used as a defence to prevent coastal erosion. The sculpture is purposely only partially formed as it is intended to be completed by snowfall. The artist, Ryan Ga...
We are only human (Incomplete sculpture for Scarborough to be finished by snow), 2022 | Ryan Gander
Featured journal
Breathe:2022 – A decade of air pollution, and unequal progress
In 2012, artist Dryden Goodwin created an animation of over 1000 drawings of his five-year-old son inhaling and exhaling air for his major work Breathe. The film was projected on the roof of St Tho...
Forecast
At a time of such fragility and uncertainty, we present our first FORECAST art commission ‘Forecasting: Interesting Worlds‘. Created by acclaimed Chinese artist Fei Jun in collaboration with 13 co-creators from across the world, this new work asks us to consider t...
Forecasting: Interesting Worlds – Fei Jun
“Woven Time: A Girdle of Fig Leaves” is a video in the form of a dream premonition. In dialogue with a particularly lovely patch of mud visual artist Adam Chodzko speculates about what art might need to become next and what new ways it might be used, in order to make a path of...
‘Woven Time: A Girdle of Fig Leaves’ – Adam Chodzko
“Where I’m from, we walk backwards into the future. Everything known, everything that has happened so far is what we face. Behind us is the unknown. Where we are going.” We’re excited to present the new short film ‘ E Kū mālo`elo`(To Stand Firm)’ by ...
‘E Kū mālo`elo`e (To Stand Firm)’ – Ahilapalapa Rands
“Art is a way of making the invisible visible, that’s why I’m part of this project. It’s about awareness, about getting everybody on board. Politicians say people aren’t ready, but they are ready. We can’t go back, there’s no turning back now – it’s a red alert, it’s a public ...