ABSTRACT
Historically, the visual communication of climate change in popular media culture has tended to focus upon, and prioritise, photographic and film documentation of climate impacts, which have been criticised for their disempowering and disengaging effects. This chapter explores the possibilities that visual arts offers for new ways of perceiving and understanding climate change, through a consideration of the ways in which visual arts engagement with climate change can appeal to our emotions, imaginations and our senses. It reflects critically upon the discursive/institutional context of the space of the artwork's display and how this contributes to the possibilities and limitations of the making meaningful of climate change through creative and artistic practice. Through notions of belonging, place, space, time, vision, display and context, the chapter identifies and also explores how these themes offer ways for artists to help (re) imagine climate change as a present and pressing concern.
