Talk: Art in Antarctica

Sat. 26th April 2025

1pm

Pay what you can

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Antarctica is the only continent on earth without an indigenous human population. Nevertheless, for almost as long as people have been exploring it, they have been making art. Discover carved whale teeth, scientific watercolours and Christmas decorations in this lecture about the many artistic responses to the icy continent.

Henrietta Hammant is a museum anthropologist and a polar specialist. She has lived and worked in some of the coldest places on earth, from the Polar Bear Capital of the World in northern Canada to the Antarctic peninsula. Her research takes museums and material culture as a starting point to understanding how people have interacted with the polar regions for thousands of years.

Banner art: "The great ice barrier - looking east from Cape Crozier." Watercolor by Edward A. Wilson

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