Smoke In The Forest
- 2024
- 56 x 76.5cm
- Amazon rainforest charcoal ink on paper
- In 2023, Simon Butler, the director of British charity Migrate Art, travelled to the Amazon Rainforest where illegal fires were burning out of control. He shipped boxes of charcoal from burned areas of the Amazon, back to the UK. The charcoal was turned into ink and paints and distributed to 40 international artists, whose works made with the Amazon inks and paints were sold at Christie's in London, to raise money to provide the Xingu Indigenous reserve with fire fighting equipment. The works shown here have been painted with the Amazon ink.
- Related links:
- Guardians of the forest’: How art made from the ashes of Amazon Rainforest fires is helping Indigenous communities
- Turning the ashes from the burnt Amazon forest into art to support Indigenous people from the Xingu territory fighting the fires
- Enduring Amazon: Life and Afterlife in the Rainforest
- The Amazon We Want
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