New Rules

'Climate art' emerged several decades ago as a label for art and storytelling engaged with climate change. Around the turn of the century, the genre label made some sense. But the 21st century has seen a growing awareness that climate change is not a scientific issue: it's the backdrop against which all other issues take place. Climate is not an issue, but an era  - and so every artist alive...

As an artist making work about the climate and the environment, the most frequent question I get asked in interviews is, ‘Where’s the hope?’  But I find myself asking myself: Are you asking for a way to help or a way to make yourself feel better?