Jo McPherson
‘Melting textile landscape’ £80
‘Namura’s Jellyfish Invader’ £100
‘Lighten’ £30
“These pieces are designed to mimic museum display specimens and are an
artistic reflection on climate change. I recently watched a film about climate change
and was deeply moved and shocked to see the rate of polar melt taking place.
Whole pieces of icescape the size of Manhattan lost forever. On the other hand at
the same time I had been researching the Nemura Jellyfish and found that climate
change was having the opposite effect on it and that in Japan it was growing to
record sizes and in huge bloom proportions. One quote from National Geographic
even spoke of a jellyfish invasion. The two pieces submitted to this exhibition are
just what I created in response to these experiences.”