Antarctic Artist

 

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Mirrored Lemaire

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Just had to buy this notebook for working in Antarctica this season.

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Antarctic Solargrams

1 December 2015 - 1 March 2016

Taken with a pinhole camera with the aperture left open for 3 months.

Each line is an arch of sunlight captures the passing of a day.

Broken or missing lines denote the cloudy days.

With thanks to Bob Clayden for providing the solargram cans. 

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Mirrors

Top: Glacier, Port Lockroy, 2016

Middle: Goudier Island, Port Lockroy, 2016

Bottom: Flag Point, Port Lockroy, December 2015

Day without a breath of wind are rare and exquisite

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Antarctic Footprints

Top: Paradise Bay, February 2015

Bottom: Deception Island, November 2015

Take only memories, leave only footprints

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The exhibition is up!

http://www.barbican.org.uk/library/event-detail.asp?ID=18643

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The ice crystal books are coming along. The photos show examples of stellar and sectored plates; stellar and fern-like dendrites; and a triangular form.

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The Antarctic Treaty is a binding international agreement that protects and preserves Antarctica as a place of peace and cooperative scientific research.

The geographical area covered by the Treaty is everywhere below the 60 degree southern line of latitude.

The images show the beginnings of ideas for a book that re-imagines the Treaty as a protective circle of words written along the 60degree southern latitude encircling Antarctica.

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Thinking about snowflakes, ice crystals and paper cutting today.

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Still needs more refining, but I’m close to having the book designs finalised for the Species Series. This collection is inspired by the Observer’s Pocket Books series printed by Frederick Warne & Co in the 1960s.

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We’ve set up a crowdfunder fundraising page and would be delighted and very grateful if you would take a look and pledge your support if you feel able.

We’d appreciate any level of support you feel you can give and hope that you will enjoy the rewards we’re offering in return. 

Our goal is set quite modestly in the hope of exceeding it: the more we raise the better job we can do in presenting and publicising the artwork and exhibition.

Thank you in advance for taking a look:

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/antarctic-circles

Perhaps your friends, family or colleagues will be interested in this project: please feel free to share this post and the crowdfunder page link with people you know.

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Recordings of the otherworldly sounds of the Weddell Seal.

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Draft pages - baleen whales

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Mock up prototype - Antarctic Colour Wheel. Colours shown here include: Deep Drake; Jade Ice Jewel; Ancient Breath; Ice Cave; Heart of the Glacier; Ship Surge; Snow Algae; Weddell Coat: Ice Shadow

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Seal of Approval...

Over the three weeks we saw five different seal species in the Antarctica Peninsula and South Georgia.

Crabeater / Leopard / Elephant / Fur / Weddell

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Humpback Dinner Party

In the beautiful Wilhelmina Bay we witnessed pods of humpback whales working together to create bubble nets to catch their prey.

Bubble nets are made by the whales diving down deep then swimming up in a spiral pattern while releasing a steady stream of bubbles. As the bubbles rise they form a bubble cage which traps the fish or krill. The whales then swim up through the centre of the bubble net with their jaws open and capture a great gulp of food. Humpbacks are ‘baleen’ whales: they filter their food through baleen plates. When the whale closes its mouth the water pours through the baleen plates which trap their food behind.

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The King Penguin

This highly evolved species has earned the title of the King penguin. Instead of a brief and limited breeding season the King penguin reproduces on a continual cycle. Within the colony all stages of the life can be found. Parents nurturing eggs, through to fledging chicks, juveniles and breeding adults. The islands of South Georgia and the Falklands are home to the King penguin.