The Art of Nature Connection

Dr Lesley Dickie - Chief Executive Officer

Last year was the summer of giant, colourful gorillas across our island. Fabulous life-size works of sculpture, subject to the imagination of artists from far and wide. Our Go Wild Gorillas sculpture trail aimed to be fun, exciting, thoughtful and, due to its very nature, it would get people out and about exploring Jersey to track these magnificent silverbacks. But what can we really say about the use of the arts in nature connection and species conservation? Is it just fun, or something deeper? For me, it goes beyond the obvious, into how we interact and make sense of the world and our place in nature.