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Anne Brodie
Antarctic Series
7 - 29 March 2009
In 2006/07 Anne Brodie was awarded an Antarctic international fellowship sponsored by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and spent nearly 3 months living and working in the Antarctic at the BAS base in Rothera and re-fuelling depot Sky Blue. During her time there, she became aware of the extraordinary human / environmental interface which has come to inform all of her work, and continues to be a source of creative investigation with scientists at BAS and the University of Surrey.
Most of the information coming out of Antarctica is scientific data monitoring the rate and implications of climate change. To contrast this Brodie felt a freedom as an artist to explore creatively the extraordinary world around her, yet at the same time becoming aware that the environment needed very little in the way of intervention, it already had its own voice; all it needed was a quiet witness.
Brodie’s series of short films explores the extraordinary natural wonders, and subtle interventions, she achieved and witnessed during her residency.
