You might remember in October we wrote about Good Energy partner Cape Farewell, an ambitious and pioneering programme set up in 2001 that sits at the vanguard of a movement to encourage a cultural response to climate change. While most of us are unlikely to have a chance to join one of their expeditions to the frontline of climate change, an exhibition touring currently provides an opportunity to experience what these inspirational journeys have produced.

U-n-f-o-l-d is showcasing the work of 25 artists including Lemn Sissay, Ian McEwan, Clare Twomey and KT Tunstall, who have all participated in one or more of the Cape Farewell expeditions to the High Arctic in 2007 and 2008 or the Andes in 2009. It is now on display in Cornwall at the Newlyn Gallery in Newlyn/Penzance until January 11th and admission is free.

Says Cape Farewell creator, David Buckland, of the movement’s raison d’être: “We intend to communicate through art works our understanding of the changing climate on a human scale, so that our individual lives can have meaning in what is a global problem.” The body of work on display, which has already been to Vienna, London and Newcastle and will head across the Atlantic to Chicago in March, is described as “addressing a new process of thinking where artists play an informed and significant role through creating a cultural shift, a challenge to evolve and inspire a symbiotic contract with our spiritual and physical world.”

Vibrant and thought-provoking, stretching across a multitude of mediums, the U-n-f-o-l-d exhibition presents viewers with a unique opportunity to experience what artists rather than the academics are saying about climate change.