Australian artist Lisa Anderson is currently working in the Arctic.
Rosalie Higson | August 09, 2007, writes in The Australian:
On the Kapitan Khlebnikov, Anderson is looking at the effects of global warming. “The environmental issue of the melting ice caps is so very important that I feel a strong need to do this work and look at ways forward,” she says. She is confident the dynamics of using her own research and working with architects and scientists to create a large-scale art work in Sydney Harbour will have impact.
The stylised iceberg will be partly formed around Cockatoo Island using recycled and carbon-neutral material. “It’s about bringing such a big issue into our own back yard, because if the melting happens there will be icebergs in Sydney Harbour.”