The Grantham Climate Art Prize is an award for young artists to communicate messages about climate change, piloted with support from: Professor Peter Kennard, celebrated photomontage artist and professor of Political Art at the RCA; Dr Alice Bell, co-director of leading zero carbon campaign group Possible; and, Alison Tickell, the chair of Julie’s Bicycle, a charity that supports the creative community to act on climate change. This year we will also be involving Turner Prize winning artist Helen Cammock as our patron.
Art has the potential to inspire minds and touch emotions in a way that science alone often finds challenging. We felt an exchange between artists and scientists would be a worthy endeavour, and might lead to a fuller, wider appreciation of climate issues and how they can effectively be explained. We hope this prize will draw local communities together behind positive action.