Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art of Activism ()

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F-Rated
Friday 19 th – Wednesday 24 th September
Fri 19, 6pm + intro by the director
Sat 20, 2.30pm
Wed 24, 6pm
Dir. Fiona Cunningham-Reid, UK, 2025, 80 mins.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Fiona Cunningham-Reid presents an intimate portrait of
internationally acclaimed artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, who work at the intersection of
art, activism, biology and ecology. Uncompromisingly preoccupied with the climate and ecological
crisis, Ackroyd & Harvey's work has become a rallying cry for the environmental movement, winning
them international acclaim and a global following. With some of their pieces standing in prestigious
galleries and others embedded in nature, their work not only references the natural world, but also
regularly employs it. The film offers singular access into the lives, work and partnership of the artists,
and their quest to shake humanity into action on climate catastrophe - whatever the personal cost -
including their collaboration with Extinction Rebellion, and co-founding the movement Culture
Declares Emergency.
Meticulous and thoughtful, this careful study of a lifelong creative partnership asks questions of
where art and hope - and love - stand in our very uncertain world.