Aardvark & Aardvark creative director Simon McGrath tackles global warming subject in piece exhibited at Sydney’s Sculptures by the Sea
Aardvark & Aardvark creative director Simon McGrath is exhibiting in Sculpture by the Sea again this year. The exhibition which is currently running at Bondi attracts around 500,000 visitors from around the world and boasts some of the countries best sculpture and
installation work.
McGrath, who exhibited a set of giant taps two years ago with his artwork, ‘Who left the tap running?’ has tackled the issue of climate change once again. This time, by placing a virtual iceberg in the ocean just out from Bondi. The artwork is called ‘Virtually Melted’ and can only be seen via your smartphone through an App developed by Webling Interactive.
Says McGrath: “My artwork is a response to the fact that 49% of the arctic has melted away since the year 2000. It’s astounding to think that so much of the arctic could melt away so quickly and if professor Peter Wadham from Cambridge University is correct, then the arctic will be totally ice free by the summer of 2015-2016. That doesn’t sound very cool to me.”
Believers and sceptics are encouraged by McGrath to read more about the plight of the arctic at savethearctic.org.
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Rubbish! The world is not melting it just goes in cycles over hundreds/ thousands of years.
Stop the panic go with the flow.
Move on nothing to see here.
Clever.
Nice one Simon.
…it would’ve melted somewhere in the southern ocean.
Awesome work mate
Hmmm, should I believe decades of scientific findings from thousands of expert scientists the world over about who have devoted their careers to analysing climate change or should I believe the deluded ramblings of some random knob on an advertising blog? IT’S SO HARD TO DECIDE! Let me guess, you don’t vaccinate your kids either, do you?
Very cool mate. Virtually easier to store too
Yeah, but Antarctic ice cover is at a record high. So what does that say about global warming.
@Believe this – National Geographic has reported new studies suggesting that’s due to melting ice shelves shielding the surface from warm water.
If you’re going to fling single line ‘defences’ of your underbaked theories you should probably read up on the actual science and ongoing developments and research into that science first.
Antarctic sea ice has risen by 3.6%, and yet Arctic sea ice coverage this year was 23% lower than the long term average. Last year there was even less.
This time instead of using an app wouldn’t this be more impressive to see a floating sculpture?