Cape Farewell’s exquisite new touring exhibition, which kicked off in Vienna this May, shows in Cornwall from 26 Nov – 22 Jan at the Newlyn Art Gallery, University College Falmouth.

Michèle Noach joined Cape Farewell on the 2004 Art/Science Expedition. Taking almost three weeks the Cape Farewell crew circumnavigated Spitsbergen, the main island of the Svalbard archipelago, aboard the Noorderlicht – sailing almost as far North as possible. Following the expedition Michèle produced her series of lenticulars (a 3D optical medium) called ‘The Arctic Feel-O-Graphs’, featured in the Cape Farewell book Burning Ice, and exhibited at the Natural History Museum in London and then internationally with Art & Climate Change. She returned to the Arctic on her second voyage with Cape Farewell in September 2008, joining the Disko Bay Expedition.

In 2007 Cape Farewell visited The Lost Gardens of Heligan, pre-cursor to creation of Eden Project, as part of their long term collaboration with the Eden Project. From this start point Michèle has worked with both Heligan and Eden Project on several projects, including The Glasshouse Men, an installation of lenticulars in the greenhouses at The Lost Gardens of Heligan in November 2008. She is currently Artist-In-Residence at Eden working on the adaptive behaviour of Arctic poppies.

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