Activists
(JUST A FEW WE LIKE)
Ai Weiwei
Chinese artist, activist, documentarian who has produced sculptures, installations, documentaries, and public works famous for his political commentary and activism on human rights issues.
Benjamin Von Wong
Canadian artist, activist, and photographer best known for his environmental art installations and hyper-realist art style focusing on amplifying positive impact and helping to make positive impact unforgettable.
Mary Mattingly
Mary Mattingly is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores issues of sustainability, climate change and displacement. Mattingly combines photography, performance, portable architecture and sculptural ecosystems into poetic visions of adaptation and survival.
Daniel Beltra
Photographer who captures the profound beauty and vulnerability of the natural world in his photographs of natural landscapes and wildlife
Jason deCaires Taylor
Award winning sculptor, environmentalist and professional underwater photographer. For the past 17 years, Taylor has been creating underwater museums and sculpture parks beneath the waves, submerging over 1,200 living artworks throughout the world’s oceans and seas.
Lorenzo Quinn
Contemporary Italian artist leading figurative sculptor whose work is inspired by such masters as Michelangelo, Bernini and Rodin. Exhibited internationally, his monumental public art and smaller, more intimate pieces transmit his passion for eternal values and authentic emotions.
Olafur Eliasson
The works of artist Olafur Eliasson explore the relevance of art in the world at large. He believes that art can influence our behaviours and beliefs beyond the museum walls and that the impact of art can be to create a ‘new sense of responsibility’ in relation to our world and those around us.