Earth Water Sky Residency Begins at Science Gallery Venice

This week the underwater artist, Emma Critchley, began her 2 month Earth Water Sky residency at Science Gallery Venice, generously funded by Fondation Didier et Martine Primat. She is working with one of Italy's leading environmental scientists, Professor Carlo Barbante who is based at Ca Foscari University and is one of the leaders of the Ice Memory Project - a project to create a library of non polar ice cores which record the changes in climate and will be stored in Antarctica.

The bubbles of gas stored in the cores give clues as to how the climate has changed. Tiny particles organic materials stored in the ice core can give clues also to people's movements across time and space - across continents and the centuries.

With Ice and Memory as inspiration - wait and see until next year what comes out of the residency. The results will be exhibited during the Venice Biennale. But for now, it is research and discovery! The joys of the artistic process.