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Climate change exhibition at Auckland University

13 Feb 2025

PHOTO: Dan Shipp


Media release | A powerful exhibition that showcases the devastating impacts of climate change in the Pacific has opened at Auckland University of Technology’s Te Wai Ngutu Kaakaa Gallery.

Running from 29 January to 21 February 2025, Trouble in Paradise - Climate Change in the Pacific features a series of confronting and compelling images that document the impact of rising sea levels, cyclones and floods on communities across the Pacific.

 

The exhibition comes to AUT from the Falemata'aga/Museum of Samoa, where it starred as an official side-event of last year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. It will now be hosted at AUT in partnership with the British Council New Zealand and the Pacific and the British High Commission in Wellington.

 

AUT Vice-Chancellor, Professor Damon Salesa, says the free exhibition will give visitors a first-hand look at the impacts the climate crisis is having on our Pacific neighbours and empower them to learn about the Pacific artists and communities who are leading, acting and responding.

 

“These photographs – and their creators – come as authentic voices speaking to our shared global challenge, offering powerful and unique insight, vision and critique, coming in parts sombre, poignant, celebratory, and defiant,” says Professor Salesa.

 

“Here at AUT, a grateful caretaker of this powerful collection, we have found it speaks both to who we are, and the role we must play in our shared existential challenge. We are a university that is not just in, but of the Pacific, with an indigenous past and present that defines us, and where a third of our students are indigenous to Aotearoa or the Pacific.”

 

Featuring many of the winning entries from the UK Government’s Pacific Climate Photography Competition in the lead-up to COP26, the photographs featured are by residents of islands across the Pacific. Following the exhibition, the collection of photographs will be generously loaned to AUT to inspire staff and students and their teaching, learning and research.

 

British Council Director New Zealand and the Pacific, Natasha Beckman, says, “The British Council’s mission is to support arts as a platform to address global challenges of our times - such as climate change. Pacific communities often bear the brunt of its effects despite their minimal contributions to global emissions. Through poignant imagery, Trouble in Paradise aims to move hearts and minds, inspiring urgent action and sparking crucial policy discussions on a global scale.”

 

To commemorate the exhibition, AUT and the British Council have co-produced a publication which features an essay from Professor Salesa and contributions from New Zealand Poet Laureates Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM FRSNZ and David Eggleton. A digital copy is available here [PDF, 10.1 MB].

 

Trouble in Paradise - Climate Change in the Pacific will be held at the Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery alongside Sione Tuivailala MonÅ« and Edith Amituanai: Toloa Tales, an exhibition that explores what it means to return to an ancestral homeland.

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