Art on your door step

Our 2011-12 Tree Culture programme continues this autumn with a residency with the artist collective Active Ingredient who have created the exhibition A Conversation Between Trees. See below for a special twilight workshop for teachers led by the artists. 

Residency:  Active Ingredient

8 - 19 October

Exhibition:  A Conversation Between Trees

22 October - 29 January 2012

Admission Free 

Active Ingredient are visualising and interpreting environmental data from trees as a new interactive artwork.  Their 'climate machine' is a kinetic sculpture that scorches the levels of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere onto recycled paper.  The exhibition reveals the invisible forces at play in forests.  Large video projections will show trees from Brazil and the UK 'in conversation' - revealing the light, colou r and climate in the canopy of trees, changing over time.  A unique set of art prints generated by the climate machine duirng the artists residency will be exhibited in the gallery.

Twilight Teachers' Workshops

Tuesday 11 October, 4-6pm:  Teachers

Wednesday 12 October, 4-6pm:  Children and youth workers

Admission:  £10.  Booking essential

Using Haldon Forest Park trails and led by the artists, these special twilight sessions will focus on activities which link to the exhibition and can be used during group visits.

Our programme focus for 2011-12 Tree Culture is an exploration of the cultural and environmental importance of trees.  The programme coincides with the 2011 United Nations International Year of Forests which aims to 'raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests.'

CCANW is open Tuesday – Sunday and all Bank Holidays, 10am – 5pm, closing at 4pm between November-February. 

CCANW has an integrated programme of exhibitions, artist-led projects and educational activities that reach out, across the art forms and other disciplines, to address the urgent social, environment and scientific issues that concern us all today.