"Artists are brilliant at holding complexity. Making meaning, making sense, building community around problems is their superpower."

So says Angharad Wynne-Jones of the role artists and creatives have in addressing the existential issue of our time: climate change. 

Wynne-Jones is a strategist and facilitator for Creative Climate, a new peak body formed with Creative Australia funding to help Australia’s arts and cultural sector tackle the climate crisis. 

“The appetite for this work is really palpable within the sector,” says Wynne-Jones. “Audiences are keen for cultural institutions and the cultural sector to make these changes. Artists are too.” 

Climate action in the cultural space isn’t new. Wynne-Jones points to UK-based Julie’s Bicycle and Culture for Climate Scotland as arts organisations formed in the last two decades to mobilise the industry against climate change, which provided guidance to Creative Climate. 

https://creative.gov.au/news-events/stories/climate-creative-action