Collection: 3000 days … and counting …

3000 days … and counting … | Sharon Field

West Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre |Exhibition: 7 February – 23 March 2025

The 2021 IPCC Report warned that we need to keep the global temperature below a 1.5° C rise by 2030. 

At that time …  2030 was 3000 days away.

I set myself a challenge – to do a drawing/painting a day for the next 3000 days on a series of scrolls, the purpose of which is to provide a visual record of the plants we are in danger of losing. 

I started my drawing on Earth Hour Day, 26 March 2022.

The format of a scroll is important because it is a symbol of life, time and wisdom.  Both ends rolled up indicate a life that is folding and unfurling. Our lives in this time of climate change are like a scroll of uncertain length where the past has already been written and the future is hidden. We only see the present clearly.

Over 1100 days have passed since that significant IPCC report and still little has been achieved. There are less than 2000 days to go until 2030. What can we do?

Come and visit Sharon at Belco Arts during the exhibition from Thursday to Sunday 10am-3pm. It will be a wonderful opportunity to meet her while she works on her daily drawings from the gallery.