CAPE FAREWELL - Key Persons
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- Treasurer of the Cape Farewell Foundation Board
Carolyn Taylor (Treasurer)
Carolyn Taylor is a start-up specialist, responsible for numerous cultural non-profits from The Word On The Street to Cape Farewell Foundation (Toronto).
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- Member of the Cape Farewell Foundation Core Team
- Member of the Core Team
- Curator, Programming Director
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- Director
- Founder
- International Director
- Member of the Cape Farewell Foundation Core Team
- Member of the Core Team
- Artist
- Artist Talk During the Space to Breathe Weekend at Somerset House, January 2017
- Artist Talk for Art & Climate Change at Kampnagel, 2007
- Artist, Designer
- the Pregnant Messenger, 2005
Lily Lloyd joined the team in February 2021, working alongside founder David Buckland to create Cape Farewell's growing archive.
Lily studied BA photography at Falmouth university before working as an art teacher at a local private school.
She has been involved in numerous local community art festivals and engagement, as well as achieving a Young Persons Bursary award. Her photographic practice explores the interrelationship between humans and animals. She is particularly interested in the relationship between humans and birds, as shown in her latest photographic series'.
Lily manages Cape Farewell's social media platforms and ranges Cape Farewell's ever growing archive!
In 2001 David Buckland created and now directs the Cape Farewell project which without expectation has become a global entity. The work of the artists and climate scientists have been the subject of two major films, Art From The Arctic for the BBC and Burning Ice for Sundance, both produced by Buckland.
The notion that art can interrogate the future with some semblance of rigour has been analysed and researched and become instrumental in facing the challenge of climate change.
Buckland has co-curated major climate art exhibitions, Art & Climate Change for the National History Museum, London 2006, eARTh: Art of a changing world for the Royal Academy, U-n-f-o-l-d which has toured worldwide, Carbon 12 for the EDF foundation gallery in Paris, 2012, Carbon 13 for the Ballroom Texas, 2013 and the Carbon 14 exhibition and festival in Toronto 2013 / 14.
David is a designer, artist and film-maker whose lens-based works have been exhibited in numerous galleries in London, Paris and New York and collected by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Getty Collection, Los Angeles, and the Michael Wilson Collection amongst others. In 1999 David presented a one-man show of digitally mastered portraits of Performers at London's National Portrait Gallery, which attracted over 100,000 visitors.
David Buckland gives an artist talk during the Space to Breathe weekend at Somerset House, January 2017.
Ice Rink, a photographic film and video installation by David Buckland and Eugene Sellors at the Eden Project, 2007.
David Buckland gives at artist talk for Art & Climate Change at Kampnagel, 2007.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Cape Farewell Foundation Board
David Miller is the former mayor of Toronto and current President and CEO of WWF-Canada.
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- Member of the Core Team
- Publicist, MDG Associates
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- Member of the Board
- Lecturer in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton
Dr Simon Boxall is a Cape Farewell Board Member and joined Cape Farewell's 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2010 Arctic expeditions.
He became involved in Cape Farewell at the early stage of the organisation. David Buckland visited the NOC and discussed his ideas with Simon and others in Southampton back in 2002. The unlikely combination of arts and science working in close collaboration to highlight the urgency of dealing with climate change seemed then to be both novel and an unknown path. Cape Farewell turned out to be a trend setter and Simon has been involved in the science of all of the Arctic expeditions, and been on the vessel in all but one.
Dr Simon Boxall is an academic in oceanography at the University of Southampton, based in the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He studied oceanography at the University of Liverpool where he focused on the physics of the deep ocean, and moved towards shallow waters and coastlines when he moved to his present post. He has over the years undertaken studies of both open and coastal seas, using both shipborne measurements and remote sensing techniques. His work has included looking at oil spill tracking and observations of climate change. Simon's other role is in public understanding of science and he regularly delivers public lectures worldwide, has appeared in over 60 documentaries and regularly features on national and international news stories relating to the ocean environment.
"For all of the science that we have achieved, some of my most unexpected output has been art in the form of an art installation at the EDF Galleries in Paris and at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol. I was rubbish at art in school - that's why I became a scientist. I realise now that the two are closer than one realises".
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cape Farewell Foundation Board
- CEO of MaRS Discovery District
Ilse Treurnicht is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a leading innovation centre located in Toronto.
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- Partner at LGA Architectural Partners
- Toronto Architect
Toronto architect Janna Levitt is a partner at LGA Architectural Partners and her practice has a particular focus in art and architecture. Current projects she is leading include the new Laurentian School of Architecture of the North in Sudbury for Laurentian University; the central branch of the Kitchener Public Library and the Toronto Media Arts Centre (TMAC). She is also a member of the National Steering Committee for the Canadian Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cape Farewell Board
- Charity Director, Writer
- Charity Director, Writer and Communications Consultant / Artist and Board Member
Jo Revill is a charity director, writer and communications consultant and is a Non-Executive Director of Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, a global leader in child health.
She previously worked as CEO of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), a Medical Royal College, and the British Society of Immunology.
A former journalist with The Observer newspaper and advisor to Alan Johnson MP when he was Health Secretary, she has extensive experience in leadership, governance and strategy.
She lives in Cerne Abbas, Dorset with her husband, Mike McCarthy and is currently writing a book about expeditions to the Arctic.
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- Development Director
- Member of the Cape Farewell Foundation Core Team
- Member of the Core Team
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- Member of the Cape Farewell Board
- Artist, Curator, Assistant Manager and Social Media Director
- Assistant Company Manager and Social Media Director
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- Website Designer and Developer
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- Artist, Urban Planner, Activist and Researcher
Vancouver-based artist Myfanwy MacLeod is perhaps best known for her iconic work The Birds, a public sculpture located in Vancouver's Olympic village. The Birds is an example of her ironic sense of humour and ability to use her work to analyse, even satirize relationships between the individual and larger social structures. Since the 1990s, she has been represented in numerous national and international exhibitions.
Nancy Vonk is the Co-Founder of SWIM, a creative leadership lab and was the former Co-Chief Creative Officer at Ogilvy Toronto.
Robert Davies is a Principal at Montgomery Sisam Architects and Board President of Environmental Defense.
Job Titles:
- Company Manager
- Artist, Teacher, Art Project Coordinator, Curator and Company Manager
Tom Rand is the author of Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit and is the Cleantech advisor at MaRS Discovery District.