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Dir @invisible_dust Curator 'Climate Clock Oulu26 Ranti Bam, Rana Begum, Takahiro Iwasaki, Gabriel Kuri, Antti Laitinen, SUPERFLEX, & Studio Kalleinen

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Bringing artists together to create Climate Clock

The new episode of Extraordinary Creatives with Alice Sharp and Rana Begum is out NOW wherever you get your podcasts. Or comment the word "podcast" to be sent the link.

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@katemacgarry by @alicewsharp

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What happens when artists and scientists work together?

The new episode of Extraordinary Creatives with Alice Sharp and Rana Begum is out NOW wherever you get your podcasts. Or comment the word "podcast" to be sent the link.

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@katemacgarry by @alicewsharp

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Congratulations @unathimkonto! Winner of @nicolettafioruccifoundation Prize!

Selected by Yinka Shonibare for @frieze London Artist-to-Artist with @goodman_gallery.

Unathi Mkonto, nominated by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, draws from his recent exhibition ‘If Joburg had a beach, who would go?’, with fine-grained beechwood sculptural work drawing energy stored in the ocean floor, and city centres such as Johannesburg (Goodman Gallery). by @alicewsharp

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Ceri Hand’s latest Extraordinary Creatives podcast is now live with an interview between our Artistic Director, Alice Sharp and Artist, Rana Begum, addressing the question: What Art Can Do About Climate Change?

“Who can imagine the future? It’s artists because you know it’s impossible to do anything about the future without imagining.” – @alicewsharp

Listen via the link in our Bio. by @alicewsharp

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How to see your environment as a challenge when creating art!
The new episode of Extraordinary Creatives with Alice Sharp and Rana Begum is out NOW wherever you get your podcasts.
Or comment the word "podcast" to be sent the link.

@oulu2026official
@katemacgarry by @alicewsharp

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Finding the MEANING in your materials
The new episode of Extraordinary Creatives with Alice Sharp @alicewsharp and Rana Begum @ranabegumstudio is out NOW wherever you get your podcasts.
Or comment the word "podcast" to be sent the link.

@oulu2026official
@katemacgarry by @alicewsharp

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6 days ago

What can art do about climate change that science, facts and frightening headlines can’t?

Listen to the full conversation on the Extraordinary Creatives podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. Comment the word PODCAST to receive the link to the episode.

That question has driven curator Alice Sharp @alicewsharp for more than fifteen years. As Artistic Director of Invisible Dust @invisible_dust she has built an extraordinary body of work bringing leading artists and scientists together, not to illustrate scientific research, but to create something neither could have arrived at alone.

One of those artists is Rana Begum @ranabegumstudio, whose extraordinary sensitivity to colour, light, material and architecture has shaped a practice spanning painting, sculpture and installation. For Climate Clock, Alice paired Rana with glaciologist Alan Hubbard. His footage of glaciers breaking apart and collapsing into the sea became the catalyst for Rana’s monumental work made from locally sourced stone that somehow manages to evoke both the weight and the fragility of ice.

And together we explore a much bigger question: if information alone isn’t changing our behaviour, can artists help us feel our way towards a different future?

Listen to the full conversation on the Extraordinary Creatives podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. Comment the word PODCAST to receive the link to the episode.

Credits:
Alice's portrait by @rosaruuskanen
Rana's portrait by Aric Attas Creative

Slide 3: Rana Begum_No.1574 Stone, Climate Clock courtesy Oulu26 photo Maija Toivanen
Slide 4: Antti Laitinen 'You are Here' Climate Clock, courtesy Oulu26 Photo Maija Toivanen
Slide 5: Breathe_Lahore, by Dryden Goodwin Photo L. Wood for Invisible Dust 2024
Slide 6: Alberta Whittle, 'Where the tide greets memory' (2023), part of 'The Oceans Edge' Brazil-UK
Slide 7: Roman Mosaic c. 2025 by Jeremy Deller and Coralie Turpin - photo by Jules Lister
Slide 8: Gabriel Kuri_'Risk Assessing Risk Assessment' Climate Clock courtesy Oulu26 Maija Toivanen by @alicewsharp

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“And if we continue looking down at our phones and lose our relationship with nature’s time we will lose not only relationship with the earth but with ourselves.” – @alicewsharp, CHART public programme

As the days get colder in the N Hemisphere do we still reflect on the change of the seasons? Alice was recently in-conversation with Rasmus Nielsen, one third of Danish artists group @superflexstudio as part of leading Nordic art fair, CHART in Copenhagen; their discussion focussed on the ideas of ‘Climate Clock’, connecting to stories and myths on time - seasonal change, movement of the sun across the sky, and before clocks, church bells marking time. Exploring ‘Super Kello’ created by SUPERFLEX, a beautiful permanent stone sculpture which emits audio one word per minute for ten years, a Finnish version of the Odyssey read by a local fisherwoman.

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1-2. Superflex in conversation with Alice Sharp for @chart_artfair 2026. Photos by Joakim Züger.

3-4. Alice with artist @hellgrenfanny, in front of her her presentation @nevvengallery. NEVVEN is a non-profit hybrid art project, based in Göteborg, Sweden.

5. Alice Sharp with Ben Wenhou Yu, Director of @northingspace, showing works by Lin Zhipeng & Jinbin Chen. Northing—Centre for East Asian Art and Culture is based in Bergen and is the first—and currently the only—non-profit contemporary art centre in Norway dedicated to fostering cultural exchange between Norway and East Asia.

6-7. Alice with artist @metaisaeusberlin and her work, showing with @cfhillofficial

8. Alice on SUPERFLEX ‘One Two Three Swing!’, in private garden, Copenhagen, originally conceived for Tate Modern

8. ‘Super Kello’, new commission by SUPERFLEX for Climate Clock. Photo by Maija Toivanen for @oulu2026official by @alicewsharp

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“Our world has become one where seconds not even minutes matter. A machine-time world which is damaging our relationship to the planet and each other. Danish artists group SUPERFLEX have created a new work ‘Super Kello’ (Kello is both bell and clock in Finnish) which draws us back to a time before machines, to a time of myths.” – Invisible Dust’s Artistic Director, @alicewsharp, discussing a new commission by artist group @superflexstudio for @chart_artfair’s Curatorial Notes Journal (see the link in our Bio to the full text).

Alice Sharp will be in conversation with Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen from SUPERFLEX at CHART in Copenhagen on Sunday 30 August.

CHART and @vonbartha will also present a large-scale project by SUPERFLEX in the centre of Tivoli Lake, continuing the fair’s ambition to inspire new reflections on the environments we share.

Alice Sharp recently collaborated with SUPERFLEX on their new marine landmark ‘Super Kello’ for Climate Clock @oulu2026official. Super Kello provides the residents of Kello, a harbour in Haukipudas, with a place to sit, rest, and consider other ways to measure time. This bell-shaped stone sculpture faces out to sea like a light house, connecting the marine world to land; building a bridge between the underwater ecosystem of the fish and aquatic life and human habitation in nearby human dwellings. It welcomes fishing boats, sailing boats and leisure craft into the safety of the harbour.

Read more about the talk via the link in our bio.

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1. SUPERFLEX: Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen. Photo: Daniel Stjerne
2. Super Kello, SUPERFLEX, Oulu, 2026, Photo by Maija Toivanen for Oulu2026 by @alicewsharp

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2 months ago

#TalksProgramme at CHART 2026 🎤✨ Artist Talk: SUPERFLEX

Join us on Sunday 30 August from 13.00–13.30 for a conversation between SUPERFLEX (@superflexstudio) and Alice Sharp (@alicewsharp)

SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen. As an expanded collective, they work with a wide range of collaborators, from engineers and gardeners to audience members, developing projects that take the form of energy systems, sculptures, infrastructures, contracts and public spaces. Their practice explores alternative models of social and economic organisation, often through participatory and site-specific works, including major public space interventions such as Superkilen.

Alice Sharp is the Artistic Director of Invisible Dust (@invisible_dust). She is the curator and art and science advisor for Climate Clock which is part of Oulu’s European Capital of Culture 2026 programme. Sharp works at the intersection of art, science and climate action, and has collaborated with SUPERFLEX on their new marine landmark in Haukipudas, Oulu.

SUPERFLEX is represented by @vonbartha who is part of #CHART2026.

Explore the full Public Programme at chartartfair.com/programme 👆

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1 Portrait of Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen
2 Portrait of Alice Sharp. Photo by Rosa Ruuskanen by @alicewsharp

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Our Artistic Director @alicewsharp is currently researching Medieval castles in Wales with @cadwcymruwales, @mostyngallery, and @artesmundi. Our upcoming programme ‘Stone Rivers’ will be launched in the Autumn and uncovers French and UK Norman stone architecture, focusing on stone as a contemporary low carbon alternative to concrete and steel.

Images, all courtesy of Alice Sharp:
1. Chepstow Castle
2. Alice with Bill Zajac, CADW; and Nigel Prince, Director, Artes Mundi at Chepstow Castle
3. Harlech Castle, perched above an enormous sandy beach with views across to the mountains
4. Adam Lewis-Smythe, Director, Mostyn with Alice Sharp at Rhuddlan Castle with its double gate house, built by Edward 1st who drew from his Norman heritage
5-6. Norman Llanthony Priory in the Black Mountains
7. Alice with Bill Zajac historian, CADW at Llanthony Priory
8. Caernarfon Castle
9. Conwy Castle, as painted by Turner by @alicewsharp

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Thanks @loubuck01 for fantastic article on 'Climate Clock' for 'Green is the new Black' @theartnewspaper.official

'The most precious thing we have is time. It is finite and cannot be replenished: once it’s gone, it’s gone. And it is becoming increasingly evident that our consumerist desire to control and dictate the pace of time is devastatingly out of kilter with the rhythms of nature. The disparity between human and natural timeframes is explored throughout Climate Clock, a permanent public art trail across Northern Finland'.

Brilliant new artworks by @baamtii @ranabegumstudio @gabrielkuri1970 @studiokalleinen @laitinen_antti @superflexstudio and Takahiro Iwasaki

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/17/the-climate-clock-is-ticking-new-art-trail-in-finland-shines-a-light-on-rapid-arctic-warming

With @claudiawoolgar international programmer and thanks to all at @oulu2026official and @ouluntaidemuseo
and @invisible_dust by @alicewsharp

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