Art and particularly sculpture can be wasteful, and all artists need to consider ways in which they can make their practices more sustainable. Through exploration of the possibilities of recycled and eco-friendly materials, artists can bring about education. The more people are made to be aware and care, the bigger the demand for change. The bigger the demand for change, the more big companies or governments listen and want to be seen to be doing something.

I started looking at sea defences within my work in 2017, as I was interested in their varying geometric shapes. These huge man-made shapes protect the land we walk on from the ever-encroaching expanses of sea. They seem so alien and out of place in their natural setting. Lisa Jewell has called it ‘Enthralling and Addictive’ and Jenny Quintana (author of ‘The Missing Girl’) ‘A truly compelling story that captures exactly the complexity of friendship and motherhood and how everything we think we know can be challenged in one heartbreaking instant…’

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If nothing is done, half of the world’s sandy beaches could disappear by 2100 due to climate change-induced coastal erosion and rising seas. As global temperatures continue to rise, driven by heat trapping greenhouse gases, melting ice will raise sea levels, and extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent and intensify, battering vulnerable coastlines around the world. The BlueMark team has designed proprietary methodologies for evaluating how each of the three key components of an investor’s impact management process—impact mandates, impact management practices, and impact reporting—are aligned with industry standards like OPIM, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Impact Management Project (IMP), the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) IRIS+, UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and others. Also outside the Barn is Ros Burgin’s Lifelines. Coral reefs are some of the richest and most diverse ecosystems on earth, representing an important source of food and income to more than 500 million people worldwide, and they perform a crucial role in coastal defence. They are formed of the calcium carbonate skeletons of corals, small, immobile organisms closely related to jellyfish. Under pressure from pollution, over-fishing, sea temperature rises and bleaching, reefs have declined by 50% since 1950. Burgin’s work maps out the world’s remaining tropical coral reefs across four handcrafted Lignum surfboards.

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Tideline, a specialist consultant for the impact investing industry, today published a how-to guide for investors seeking to define their approach to sustainable investing. The full report, “Truth in Impact: A Tideline Guide to Using the Impact Investment Label,” is available at https://bit.ly/3yiy8Mu. Q. What is the inspiration behind your work in Tideline and how does it sit within the context of your work? The aim of Lifelines is for the public to become as easily familiar with the location and shape of coral reefs as they are with the shape of continents. I am seeking to create a sea-change in people’s thinking, where out of sight is no longer out of mind, and to pull focus to life below the water and our connection to and dependence on healthy oceans. Q. What is the inspiration behind your work in Tideline and how does sit within the context of your work?

People become immune or overwhelmed by the daily bombardment of news and the situation we are in can seem futile. Artists and creative thinkers can reach people in different ways and help them understand that it is possible for each of us to make an impact. The more artists make work about aspects of climate change and its effect on the planet, the wider the audience that is reached about such issues. Artists working with scientists can help see things from a different perspective, as well as making research more relatable.

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The things I focus on in my art practice are issues that society acting as a whole can change, and it is the emphasis on values and sustainability that runs through all my work. I make many pieces that advocate for an accelerated pace of change. I find it incredible that that these issues persist, even after all the campaigning work has been done and it is law. An example is the Equal Pay Act, law since 1970 and more than 50 years later, there is still a gender pay gap. Photographed during a 2015 visit to Iceland, the glaciers forming the basis for Wayne Binitie’s Liquid Paintings and Octet sculptures no longer exist. These works mark the beginning of a continuing collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey that saw Binitie’s work, Polar Zero, forming the centrepiece of an exhibition during the United Nations COP 26 Climate Conference last November. ‘The scale of the topic is so overwhelming and so complex that it can feel distant, even apocalyptic. People need something tangible to get hold of, that collapses that distance.’ The launch of BlueMark represents the formal separation of the verification business from Tideline’s consulting business, thereby establishing a dedicated team to provide independent impact verification services. BlueMark will also serve non-US clients out of a newly established London office. A long time ago, John Muir (1838 -1914), the Scottish-born American naturalist, and founder of the modern conservation movement observed “When one tugs at a single living thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world.” Based in the small mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth, Coch-y-Bonddu Books are leading international dealers in new and out-of-print books on the subjects of angling, game shooting, sporting dogs and falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books grew out of the interests of owner, Paul Morgan, who issued his first catalogue of second-hand fishing and sporting books in 1982, while he was still working as a water bailiff on the River Dyfi. A series of successful and comprehensive sporting catalogues enabled Paul to take up bookselling full-time in 1990, giving him more time to travel the world in pursuit of rare and interesting books.