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 ‘WWF’
Sydney
Friday, June 10th, 2011Sydney Ice Bear
Friday, June 3rd, 2011What a wonderfully fulfilling experience this has been, Sydney seems to have embraced Ice Bear with arms wide open… thank you Sydney. Sydney’s Home Team have ensured that people know about us and what we are doing. The Bear has been well received not only on the environmental level but also from the sculptural point of view. Last night with the extraordinary Vivid Light festival as a back drop we had had a day to remember… boy oh boy I was tired… but very happy.
Well done to all concerned for taking the Ice Bear from the High Arctic to the other side of the world, its message is spreading and long may continue to do so.
Thanks.
Mark
Sydney 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.
24th Oct
Sunday, October 24th, 2010Paddling hard below the surface the Ice Bear Team (with Julian Bickersteth from International Conservation Services in Sydney) is getting ready the bear prepared to do its magic on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on 19th December this year. This is an enormously exciting prospect as it shows that this work of art not only has life but has an exciting future continuing the mission it started at COP15 last year.
How far have we got…??? The UK team has prepared a bear in the freezer… amongst the broad beans and sent it to Felixtow to catch its passage over the high seas. Julian is doing an amazing job of preparing for its import to Australia and its sponsorship. There is a long way to go in every respect but the excitement and tension grows.
Stand by for another revamp of the website… THE SYDNEY ICE BEAR…
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
15th Sept
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010Rarely have I been more pooped than by the weekend…with WWF the team worked relentlessly to achieve what should have been an impossible task, that of sculpting a life sized tiger in a very short space of time indeed and with the weather far from certain. But where there is a will there is a way. I could never thank enough the team of volunteers who gave so willingly so much time to mix plaster and generally run around and provide for me… the sculpture belongs to them!
We were also assisted by schools and scouts… who under the wonderful guidance of a prime assistant Mia not only helped with the rock but also produced endless tiger footprints.
The aim was to demonstrate to people that the tiger is under threat… hence I started with bones, the deadness of the tiger. In the space of a week we wanted to breath life back into those bones and even to bring on the next generation. This was well achieved. I would hope the messaging get out that against adversity we can turn a dire situation around.
Join WWF and my team to help save the Tiger and its environment in the same spirit that we are continuing to highlight the plight of the Polar Bear and its Arctic home.
4th Sep
Saturday, September 4th, 2010GREAT start… good weather and a fine team… lots to do over the next days to breath life into the Tiger… join us!
Tiger!
Sunday, August 29th, 2010It may seem like a change in direction but it is not… My next big project starting on 4th September is to create a life size Tigress on the South Bank near the Globe Theatre in London. This time I shall start with a skeleton and try amongst the crowds to breath life back into the bones. With bags of plaster of Paris I shall, I hope, sculpt the Tigress over the space of a week or so. This again is a project sponsored by WWF and in the Year or the Tiger, it uses art to draw attention to the plight of that beastie. We plan to have a live web link so that you can watch the progression (as well as Coreth making a complete fool of himself!)… There is no doubt that it will be a big challenge but may be that is a metaphor for the tigers challenge and that of WWF who want to double their numbers by the next Year of the Tiger.
On the Ice Bear front the team is right now putting together a movie covering the Ice Bear issues… movies take time to create especially when on the back of immensely generous folk giving time and expertise for the love of the project… huge thanks to all.
DO join us on the South Bank either in person or via the web!