The successful Greenpeace 'Save or Delete' art and photography exhibition, featuring exclusive works by some of the world's best known international graphic artists such as Pete Fowler, Mike Gillette and Jasper Goodall, toured across the UK between autumn 2005 and spring 2005.
The exhibition showcased twelve specially commissioned illustrative works and a range of photographic images communicating the beauty and the crisis of the last remaining rainforests of Indonesia and the threat they face from illegal and destructive logging. Composer Dan Parmentier created an evocative soundscape to accompany the exhibition.
The tour was curated by Sarbjit Girn of Artbelowzero and media partner Dazed and Confused. It followed the success of 2003's Greenpeace Save or Delete exhibition, which was held at the Oxo Gallery in London.
Pete Fowler
Renowned illustrator Pete Fowler said "I hope this campaign helps to raise awareness of the plight of the orang-utans and their environment, and my artwork in some way will make people and companies think of the tragedies occurring far away." Pete is one of the UK's best known illustrators having produced works for The Face, GQ, Levi's and Tatler.
The collaboration, first launched by Greenpeace in 2003 with illustrators like Pete Fowler, Jasper Goodall, Mike Gillette, Kate Gibb and Geoff McFetridge marked the first time the leading lights of the illustration world have come together for an environmental cause.
The exhibition showed that if the world's ancient forests are to have a future, we will have to change the type of timber that we buy. It also encouraged viewers to help save the world's remaining ancient forests by ensuring that the timber products they buy are certified to the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
A series of photographs by freelance photographer Kate Davison accompanied the exhibition, taken as part of a Greenpeace field investigation. The photographs documented the trail of forest destruction from Indonesia and showed how rainforest timber from this region ends up on UK construction sites and in prestigious building projects including Government buildings and even Art Galleries.