A Hitchhiker’s Guide To Gaia – Famous Artist Steps In To Raise Funds
Scalloped Hammerheaded Shark By Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling Donates Limited Edition Artwork To Fund James Lovelock Climate Change Film
One of Britain’s most distinguished artists has donated a limited edition of 250 signed and numbered giclee prints to be sold to raise money for cutting edge climate change film: ‘A Hitchhiker’s Guide To Gaia’. Everyone who purchases one of these original prints will also be listed in the film credits as an associate producer.
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Hambling, awarded the CBE in 2010 New Years Honours list, is well known for controversial public sculptures in memory of Oscar Wilde, in central London, and of Benjamin Britten, entitled ‘Scallop’, on the Aldeburgh beach, Suffolk. Her work is also in major museum collections in the UK and abroad.
Having been moved by a photograph in the press of a Scalloped Hammerhead Shark wounded by fishermen. Hambling painted her response: an image of profound intensity, beauty and sadness. The work is titled, ‘Young Scalloped hammerhead, Wounded’ and depicts the creature with traces of blood languishing beneath a breaking wave.
The painting has been carefully reproduced exactly as a giclee print in a limited edition of 250, signed and numbered. The proceeds from the sales will go towards completing the documentary about equally controversial scientist, 91 year old, Professor James Lovelock, creator of the now accepted Gaia Theory.
The film crew led by director Andy Worboys has already spent three days filming with Lovelock, exploring his ideas and looking at the reality of the effects of global heating and its’ impact on humans and all other species. The film will be a fresh and optimistic look at what needs to be done to ensure our survival, and also why it is important that we even try to survive. The film will take the viewer to the cutting edge of science where technologies, that could one day be the key to our survival, are being developed.
For more information on supporting this project by purchasing a Hambling print, please visit www.arts.co.uk. More information about the film can be viewed from here as well.
A giclee print is made with especially light fast inks which achieve all the richness of colour and detail in the original painting.
The official web site for the film is here: www.guidetogaia.co.uk
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