Dear Earth
Fife Contemporary is marking its 20th anniversary in 2026 with Dear Earth, an exhibition exploring how artists are responding to the increased fragility of the world around us.
About Dear Earth
| 21st Mar 2026 to 13th Sep 2026 | |
| Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm (until 7pm Thursday) / Saturday 10am - 4pm / Sunday Midday - 4pm | |
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Kirkcaldy Galleries Kirkcaldy Galleries War Memorial Gardens, Kirkcaldy KY1 1YG |
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| This is a free event | |
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For the past 20 years Fife Contemporary have been producing exhibitions of contemporary art and craft for artists and for the public in Fife. Across this time attention to sustainability and care for the planet has permeated our programme, which has often featured artists exploring sustainable practices and addressing themes such as climate justice, overconsumption and environmental change.
Over the two decades the descriptions of these challenges have changed as well, with terms like climate emergency and net zero being used more widely now than they were in 2006. Dear Earth brings these themes together for today’s world. As well as human impacts on our environment, the exhibition will address increasing unease and nervousness about the future of the planet and the value of our efforts to save it.
Art cannot solve our problems, but across the centuries it has been used to help reflect on our world and its changes and challenges. The works featured in Dear Earth show how the artists who made them have each reflected on their own relationship to a fragile and precarious world and through their practice have found a way to respond. Brought together with different perspectives and from across Scotland they explore an experience we can all relate to.
Dear Earth features artists Ade Adesina, Helen O’Brien, Jeni Reid, Jenny Pope, Naomi Mcintosh, Scott Hunter, Susie Johnston, Will Carey and Zoe Hamill.
Opening in Kirkcaldy Galleries on Saturday 21 March 2026, Dear Earth will include a series of talks, workshops, public activity, artist development programmes and pop-up events that look back on the last 20 years, and look forward to a positive and possible future.
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