Greenland - Travels in an Amazing Place: a lunchtime talk by Margaret Sharrow

View from the Greenland coastal ferry, heading north from Nuuk.

Copyright Margaret Sharrow, 2009.

Thursday 26 March, 1pm
School of Art, Aberystwyth University, room 206

What is Greenland like?

Isn't it awfully cold there?

What is it like to stand by a glacier?

Can you really tell if global warming is happening there?

These and many other questions will be answered in a talk illustrated with photos and anecdotes, by third year fine art student Margaret Sharrow.

Last summer Margaret spent over three weeks taking photographs and travelling up and down the west coast of Greenland, the world's largest island and one of its most remote cultures. Located between Iceland and Canada, straddling the cultures of native Greenlanders, its Danish colonial heritage, and the global media culture, Greenland is also the home of some of the world's most stunning scenery.

For more information about Greenland, click around this website.

For more information about Margaret Sharrow, visit her art blog, online portfolio, or public Facebook page, or e-mail her at sharrow-art@hotmail.co.uk

For a map showing the location of the School of Art, visit here.

27 March 2009

Many thanks to all those who attended my talk, and asked such good questions. And also thanks to the people who apologised for not being able to attend: your good wishes were much appreciated.I have enough material for many more talks about Greenland, so stay tuned to my blogs!

Margaret Sharrow in Greenland homepage

Welcome to my blog website about my travels in Greenland. I am an artist currently finishing a B.A. in fine art at the Aberystwyth University School of Art. Last August and September I went on a funded trip to experience and record the Greenlandic landscape, having won a Geoffrey Crawshay Memorial Travelling Scholarship from the University of Wales . This blog will include narratives from my travels, photographs, works in my portfolio that have come out of this journey, and links and information about this enormous/tiny news-topical/little-known country.

For more general information about my art practice, including my current exhibitions, please visit my portfolio website (sharrow.mosaicglobe.com) and my artist's blog (http://www.margaretsharrow.blogspot.com/). You can also see my work at Saatchi Online, Flickr and Facebook.