Highlighting the complexity of wildfire and its relationship with culture, climate and colonialism.

Wednesday 1 March - Saturday 29 April

What is Stolen Climate about? In a world where changing patterns of wildfire are affecting people in more extreme ways, what can global perspectives on fire offer us? And how can different ways of knowing inform how we face the future? The Stolen Climate exhibition features a collection of artwork, film and photography which presents First Nations Peoples’ perspectives on fire, in the context of the current climate emergency.

Who? Clinton Naina is an artist whose practice exposes the impact of British settlement on his people, the Torres Strait Islanders. His work ‘Stolen Climate’ reinforces the need to understand climate change through the lens of people and history, and the complex ways in which our past actions continue to unfairly impact on those who are most affected by climate change today.

What will you see? Explore a selection of satellite imagery that shows Australian wildfires through the lens of technology and science. The extreme nature of these fires contrasts with fire use as a traditional land management tool by First Nation peoples.

Watch the film ‘The Fire Keepers’ by Tim Georgeson who explores a collaborative approach to land management, which respects Indigenous knowledge of Country and cultural fire practices. Could approaches like this offer a way to maintain and revitalise ecological biodiversity and rebalance our relationship with nature?

Collaborating partners: The Stolen Climate exhibition has been developed in partnership with Science Gallery London as part of a Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires Environment and Society research spotlight. The exhibition has been produced by Science Gallery London. Learn more from the Centre of Wildfires Environment and Society here.

If you have any queries, please contact Dr Adriana Ford at wildfire@imperial.ac.uk