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Art explains: A zero carbon world
What does a 100% renewable energy world look like? Here’s art to lend a helping hand with our imagination.
New T-Shirt and sweatshirt collection: ‘Typefaces’ by Tim Godwin
Check out our new 'Typefaces' collection of sweats and tees in the Human Nature shop! 100% renewably made with organic cotton and designed by Human Nature's Tim Godwin. A playful take on graphic typefaces, grab Elephant, Wolf or Mouse now!
Swim beyond politics to a space of imagination
My god there’s a lot of noise out there right now. It’s as if someone’s turned up the amp and we’re being buried in media commentary, extreme politics, chat about money, migration, and then more chat about money. It’s been hard to find a bit of space. Here in the UK...
Human Nature at Communicate 17
Back in November, Tim from Human Nature & ATM got on a train to Bristol to present two 'toolbox' sessions at the Bristol Natural History Consortium 'Communicate 17' conference. In the Communicate organisers own words... In a time of unprecedented social, economic...
Louis Masai & Bombing Science
The excitement of ‘getting up’ around the world doing exactly what I love most, is a privilege that I am recently enjoying on a more regular basis. I’ve just returned to London after a three week painting trip in the states; I painted… A Right whale mural in cape cod...
Wrong place, right time?
Street art is often in the wrong place. It’s probably there for the right reasons, those reasons being that artists need and want to create public art in a situation where they are prohibited from doing so. So those artists seek out places where they can paint with...
Human Nature at The Wellcome Collection
Human Nature were invited to participate and speak at the Wellcome Collection's Sixth Form 'Perspectives on Nature' Symposium, an event run to coincide with the 'A museum of modern nature' exhibition. The exhibition shows objects borrowed from members of the public...
The Art of Beeing Film Series
Nine weeks, 8,000 miles, 20 murals, 13 cities, and dozens of species going extinct every day. Last Autumn we worked on our biggest and most ambitious project yet: The Art of Beeing - a tour of the US by artist Louis Masai. Partnering with EcoAlf, Defenders of...
ENDANGERED13 in National Geographic
We're chuffed our East London mural project's sparked attention all the way over in India. Read the full article in National Geographic India.
Do You Speak Seagull?: creating dialogue between creatures
Earlier this month a short exhibition hosted by Brighton-based ONCA - One Network for Conservation and Arts - drew to a close. Do You Speak Seagull? was a creative voyage into our communication and relationship with animals, a theme attracting increasing attention in...
Feeding the Insatiable: Exploring the future of art and energy
On the 9th November 2016 a collection of international and interdisciplinary thinkers gathered at ‘Feeding the Insatiable’, a summit for creative explorations of real and imaginary futures. ‘Art can change the world. Artists have played an important part in every...
10 ways you can help nature thrive
Be you ambivalent or activist, it’s difficult to ignore the reality that our planet is changing. As our activities put increasing pressure on the natural world, delicate eco-systems are becoming imbalanced and many of our native species are headed for extinction every...
EcoAlf’s sustainable fashion revolution
Tackling the extinction crisis across the USA, Human Nature has joined forces with pioneering recycled clothing brand EcoAlf for ‘The Art of Beeing’ tour. Since its emergence in 2009, the remarkable enterprise has already transformed over 30 million plastic...
Can we put the environment at the heart of culture by 2020?
By Charlotte Webster This is the challenge Human Nature has set itself. By Human Nature I mean myself as founder, Tim Godwin, Creative Director and the growing number of international artists we work with. We’re an environmental art platform based in London, carving a...
Meet the artist: Deru Anding
Born and raised amongst the Bidayuh Tribe near the jungle in northwest Borneo, Deru Anding's drawings conjure scenes of a lifestyle and community lost. His panoramic works stretch over a meter in length and are drawn entirely from memory. With his first public...
The Art of Beeing
A new project from Human Nature & Louis Masai British artist Louis Masai has arrived in the USA to begin his attempt to tackle species extinction through art. Masai’s mural of a New England Cottontail Rabbit on Troutman Street in Bushwick, New York, kicks off The...
BBC Earth film on ENDANGERED13
Big thanks to BBC Earth for this great little film and article about ENDANGERED13, our London street art project.
Connecting to the environment: Learning from Norway
I’d not been to Norway until earlier this year. I’ve travelled across the world from New Zealand to East Africa, Cuba, the US and beyond but never East across to our North Sea neighbours. Once I was there, the obvious question was why’d it taken so long? I think, deep...
Must see: Jules de Balincourt – Stumbling Pioneers
This show makes me wonder what magic would happen if you locked de Balincourt in a house with Adam Curtis, Massive Attack, Apparat, Louis Theroux, Jarvis Cocker and Wes Anderson. Painting rarely does that. Human Nature doesn’t often big up exhibitions. But Stumbling...
12 ways the arts can encourage climate action
Can the arts really help tackle climate change? Human Nature took part in an online Q&A produced by The Guardian. This was the result.. Read the full...
Podcast interview with Charlotte Webster / ENDANGERED13
Read Inspiring City's full blog on ENDANGERED13.
PHOTOS of ENDANGERED13 on Brooklyn Street Art
Huge thanks to all involved in ENDANGERED13. 13 artists, countless volunteers, our sponsors and of course all of you who headed down to Mile End to watch the action. Check out this blog from Brooklyn Street Art with photos by the master of street art photography Ian...
Where is ENDANGERED13?
The answer to that, is somewhere very special indeed. It's a hidden gem of a space with a story of destruction, neglect and regeneration. Now home to a host of wildlife, the permanent home of ENDANGERED13 will be on Ackroyd Drive Green Link at Tower Hamlets Cemetery...
The Evening Standard: Street artists to highlight plight of endangered animals
ENDANGERED 13 – Live painting - Sign up to our Facebook page to keep up to date. Sunday 10th April 2016, Midday-7pm Ackroyd Drive, Tower Hamlets, London E3 4JY Nearest Tube: Mile End