With the help of so many wonderful people in Aussie the Sydney Ice Bear was a HUGE success. It was very well received by the crowds as well as the media… and global media as well. The Purves Environmental Fund jumped in with both feet leading the way, to Rob Purves Ice Bear owes a huge thank you.
Sydney has fuelled our tanks… lets see where else we go… will keep you posted!
Mark
Posts Tagged ‘PBI’
Sydney
Friday, June 10th, 2011Sydney Ice Bear
Saturday, May 21st, 2011The count down is on… this time next week I shall be meeting up with Duncan Hamilton and Toby Sherborne… the team at the hairy port ready to set forth to Sydney. With our partners the other side of the world we will let Ice Bear loose to spread its message, what a wonderful journey Ice Bear has been on!
Tigers
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011I know we are the Ice Bear Project and I know we set our selves up to sculpt awareness into the plight of the Polar Bear and its environment and indeed that is precisely what the Project is doing. Easter will with a fair wind bring us and our block of ice to Sydney to carve the bear for Earth Week. It is looking VERY favourable that we are going to be asked to do another very prominent bear here in the UK in early April… SO Ice Bear has by no means lost its voice.
In the mean time however I am setting forth to create another work which will talk of the plight of the Tiger… I am travelling to Delhi and then on to Kanha National Park where I will be joining a dynamic team lead by Latika Nath Rana. Latika invited me to join her for her Art Week where artists from across the world will be joining up to create work aimed at raising funds and awareness to protect tiger and its habitat.
My mind is a blur of ideas… all yet to be formed and solidified… but I hope next time to report on my findings with enthusiasm and excitement. I intend to use sculpture to unite people both in India and all over the world with the one aim of conserving that iconic cat and its habitat.
More to follow… I get back from this recce on 4th Feb… so till then!
Mark
15th Dec
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010Julian Bickesteth has been running a very well oiled machine in Sydney. The Ice Bear has arrived in fine order having travelled by ship via Singapore… it now lives in its natural habitat in a freezer.
But as with projects of this complexity and distance Julians team very wisely decided that because of tight time frames both logistically and on the funding front we would postpone the carve until April 17th… ie during Earth Week. Easter in Sydney will be wonderful and the time frame perfect for Ice Bear to work its magic.
I hope that by having a bear in Australia we will be able to cruise it through the Far East… as I would hope the bear in Canada might do the Americas and the one in UK Europe… Let’s keep the message flowing through sculpture.
6th Oct
Thursday, October 7th, 2010So much happening in the Coreth world… I have discovered that I have not only to create Ice Bears for the sake of the Arctic, the Polar Bear, its environment and all matters related to it… AS well as Tigers to raise awareness to their plight… but also do some some what less philanthropic creating which will hopefully help to fill the tummy and feed the sculptural motor for Ice Bear!
We are HOPEFULLY doing another Ice Bear in Sydney to mark the anniversary of the end of the COP15 conference… that could be very poignant.
If any of you wish to see what else is filling my day email the Sladmore Gallery gerry@sladmore.com and ask for a brochure of my soon to be opened show (starts on 3rd Nov)… With that brochure you will get a DVD covering the Ice Bear journey. DO please come along to the show if in town!
If any one is interested I am
29th June
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Oh how chuffed I am with the Toronto Ice Bear, he really worked in every possible way. Equiterre and WWF CA were perfect partners in the sculpt… and my team works like clockwork.
We will shortly be posting happy snaps on the web site… so keep looking!
Toronto and the G20
Friday, June 25th, 2010Ice Bear has arrived at the G20 Summit in Toronto and given us some wonderful sculptural challenges not least of all being that the temperature is about 28c and boy does ice not melt quickly!
We have created the Toronto bear in partnership with Equiterre and WWF Canada, a partnership that has worked really well… as before and as will happen hopefully in the future. We used Equiterre’s skeleton , the one that was originally created for Quebec City and subsequently travelled to Ottawa and Montreal… it is a skeleton that has now become very Canadian and is enjoying the fact that it has migrated permanently across the Atlantic!
The sculpting home team of myself, Duncan and Jamie Hamilton with Toby Sherborne as the amazing Mr Fixer was joined again by Peter Boy and his brother Jack both highly talented Inuit sculptors. Jack and Peter did a very successful pre-carve in Montreal taking off several tonnes of ice and thereby lightening the load both for the transporter and for the somewhat hot days worth sculpting of sculpting ahead.
Toronto in at the moment teaming with security surrounding the G20 as one might expect. My first concern was not so much that the ice would melt faster than we could carve it but that to get to the block of ice we had to wiggle our way through a police force that out numbered the Canadian population a thousand fold with what could be seen as a trunk full of lethal weapons! It was funny when somewhat later in the day we were visited by a dozen or so scary cops who swooned over Ice Bear and just loved having their pictures taken, spikes, chisels, daggers, sculptors and all…
The Carve went so smoothly and the bear looked wonderful, Equiterre and WWF were chuffed with all that they had, the not so many (securitied out) passers by loved it and with fingers crossed the press will appear later this morning to watch the melt and see the bear as a skeleton and a pool of water.
I will report further at the end of the day and will now attempt to upload a flip for you… standby!
Mark
22 June 2010
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Toronto and the G20 Summit tomorrow… this should be a very exciting and punchy Ice Bear… 28c is quite warm, I long to see how the bear behaves and speaks…!!! Keep an eye on us and wish us luck!
15th June
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010My eldest sons has finished his finals … were does life go… all so fast but exciting, anxious… but through the baldness and grey temples I feel happy that aims are being achieved! I am certain that the Ice Bear aims are winning … Next Wednesday 23rd the Ice Bear team return to Canada, this time to Toronto to create another strong message delivered in that wonderful language of sculpture… I have been deep into my Arctic sculpture, the studio has been a buzz of wild activity… but that is eclipsed by the excitement of another Ice Bear… follow us!
18th March
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Win some and loose some… Equiterre and the Canadian Bear is a big win… with a future ahead. It is planned that the bear will be re frozen and taken to Toronto in June… watch this space! Sadly it would appear that we have fallen over our bid to raise enough funding to take a bear to either New York or Washington to coincide with Earth Day… very sad as Ice Bear had much to say. We are now working closely with the British Council and WWF to find other venues through Europe as well as the rest of the world… Ice Bear is on a mission!
Very soon our new look website will be up and running… keep scanning!