Exhibition
ReWild
3 Dec 2020 – 10 Dec 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- 06:00 – 23:30
- Tuesday
- 06:00 – 23:30
- Wednesday
- 06:00 – 23:30
- Thursday
- 06:00 – 23:30
- Friday
- 06:00 – 23:30
- Saturday
- 06:00 – 23:30
- Sunday
- 06:00 – 23:30
Timezone: Europe/London
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- Language: English
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Curator Lee Sharrock and Runway Gallery owner Daniel Syrett, have joined forces to launch ReWild, a virtual environmental art exhibition.
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Lee Sharrock PR and Daniel Syrett, curator of Blacks Club, Century Club and director of Runway Gallery, have teamed up to launch this exhibition ReWild, a virtual environmental exhibition online at Runway Gallery from 3 to 10 December.
ReWild takes its name from David Attenborough’s rallying cry to ‘Rewild the world’. He states in his book: “We share Earth with the living world – the most remarkable life-support system imaginable, constructed over billions of years. The planet’s stability has wavered just as its biodiversity has declined – the two things are bound together. To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. We must rewild the world.”
Attenborough talks in his book about a sixth mass extinction, saying: “A sixth mass extinction is well underway. Our garden of Eden will be lost. I wish I wasn’t involved in this struggle. I wish I wasn’t there.”
A percentage of proceeds will be donated to Friends of the Earth, one of the original environmental NGO’s formed back in 1969 in San Francisco and now present in over 70 countries. The mission of Friends of the Earth is to enable each generation to enjoy an environment with abundant nature, healthy air, water and food.
The exhibition will feature artists who are responding to the climate crisis in their art or capturing the beauty of a planet that we are gradually destroying.
Featuring Artists: Abigail Fallis, Alexander Newley, Ann-Marie James, Bruce Atherton, Corran Brownlee, Evi Antonio, Graeme Messer, Hayden Kays, Jimmy Galvin, MM (Maxim), Pandemonia, Simon McCheung, SYRETT, Tom Waugh, Toni Gallagher and Trish Wylie.