Coverage of the 2021 Day of Action to Remember Nature in Launceston Town Square.     On 4th November every other year since the artist's passing, I have responded to Gustaz Metzger's call to all artists to Remember Nature on 4th November, the anniversary of his original call out, to convene an interactive and creative event for creatives and the public to Remember Nature.  This year it will take place at The Whitaker in the Rossendale Valley.  Contact me if you would like to help make it happen and do come along!

I am delighted to have had "The Weight of the World"  2018 (Etching, 215 x 270mm) accepted for the group printmakers' forthcoming exhibition at Fronteer Gallery, Unit 4, Orchard Square, Sheffield S1 2FB.

A group show organised by UAL's Climate Emergerncy Network  to mark Earth Day 2023. Phil showed two works: The Second Elizabethan Age – all that glistens is not gold The Second Elizabethan Age has just drawn to a close in the UK.  Elizabeth ll’s 70 year reign coincided with unprecedented growth in prosperity (even if increasingly unequal), but this has come at a cost – a sustained rise in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere from 310ppm in 1953 to 419ppm in August 2022. This work makes this cost visible as a starting point for wider discussion and action. This work raises questions about whose golden age the last 70 years have been? And what has the cost been, both in terms of climate change and in widening inequalities between the western democracies and everyone else and within those democracies where income gaps have widened enormously. Creative solutions, creative inspiration,...

Artist Phil Barton uses the Granary Square fountains to visually represent how sea levels are rising by programming them at present and future high tide heights. This dramatic artwork highlights the perils of rising sea levels and the extent to which land will be lost to the waves if temperatures continue to rise. The Waters Are Coming in action The four arrays of fountains will be programmed with the outer jets at current levels of 40cm high and the central jets at the predicted 2123 height of 200cm. The ground has been marked into continents with 20 global cities and island nations at risk of flooding marked and lit. Echoing the daily passage of the tides, the fountains will move around the ‘world’, emphasising the fate of low lying populations if net zero isn’t reached within 20 years. At high tide, the fountains are taller than all of us, and...

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE This exhibition initiates a wider project by Phil Barton towards a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Lindow Man’s discovery in August 1984. The Lindow Moss area includes a former raised bog – less than a kilometre from where you are standing – which has been severely reduced and damaged from a combination of centuries of peat cutting, the spread of agriculture, development, alterations to drainage, pollution and waste tipping.  The wider area includes Lindow Common, Newgate Nature Reserve, Rossmere and extensive areas in agricultural use still supporting an extensive landscape of Moss Rooms formed by peat cutting. The whole area is known as Lindow Common or Moss, but this exhibition focuses on the remaining cut-over peat bog known as Saltersley Moss where Lindow Man was found in 1984 (he's now in the British Museum). It has been heavily cut for peat, which ceased several years ago and,...