Platform Earth: CARBON
Frieze London, The Regent’s Park
13 - 17 October 2021
In her role as Assistant Curator at Platform Earth, Rosannagh is excited to have conceptualised their inaugural fundraising exhibition, CARBON.
As curators, Flora Fairbairn and Rosannagh were tasked with developing a fundraising project that engages some of the biggest names on the UK art scene in a sustainable, eco-friendly creative project that would not only raise money for the charity, but present new ways of working in the arts without leaving behind a huge carbon footprint.
Rosannagh got to work and introduced the charity to Graviky Labs at MIT, understanding that their product, Air-Ink, an innovative black ink made from sequestered air pollution (as used in her own practice), would be a good fit for the project. She conceptualised and facilitated a project that brought together major UK artists to work with the Air-Ink (shipped by sea, not air) on recycled paper, framed in FSC certified wood.
She is delighted that this collection of carbon-negative works will launch at Frieze London 2022, and demonstrates how the art world can create world-class exhibitions without harming the planet. Funds from sales will enable the charity to support cutting edge science in carbon reduction, including their Great British Sea Forest campaign, supported by the Sussex Kelp Restoration Project and David Attenborough, which is working to conserve over 300 square kilometres of invaluable marine habitat.
