Museums & Foundations
Cape Farewell
Climate campaigning arts organisation Cape Farewell was founded by David Buckland in 2001. The organisation has led eight expeditions to the High Arctic, the frontline of climate change, taking arists, scientists, writers and performers with them, from Rachel Whiteread and Anthony Gormley, to Vikram Seth, Ian McEwan and Marcus Brigstocke.
In 2007, the South Bank invited Cape Farewell to stage the SHIFT Festival, an 8-day, music led climate festival with debate, site-wide installations and exhibitions. Marcus Brigstocke shared a stage with Ed Milliband, while KT Tunstall, Graham Coxon, Robyn Hitchcock, Shlomo, Max Eastley and Liam Frost, amongst others, performed.
We managed press for a global tour of Michael Pinsky's Pollution Pods, which travelled from Somerset House, to the UNs in Geneva and New York, where we worked with the World Health Organisation and partners to drive coverage.
In 2023 we launched Cape Farewell’s trip to The Marshall Islands, with Reuters coverage.
Coverage Highlights
Sigg Art Foundation
Swiss collector and entrepreneur Pierre Sigg is channeling his long-time passion for contemporary art into the creation of a Foundation to support the work of emerging and newly established artists.
Sigg Art Foundation runs a programme of international residencies to build cultural bridges, with a special focus on artists challenging history and artistic heritage through the lens of digital and technological innovation.
Residences are held annually at Pierre’s family home in Le Castellet in Southern France, whilst an inaugural residency was held in AlUla, in the Saudia Arabian desert, in February 2022. The intention is to continue to work in AlUla and around the world, giving artists an opportunity to focus on their practice and meet other like-minded practitioners, to build cultural bridges and exchange ideas. The Foundation is now opening up the residency opportunities to those working in other artistic disciplines, such as film, music and design.
Prix
Pictet
Prix Pictet, launched in 2008, was the world’s first photography award to focus on sustainability, with a distinct theme generated each year in collaboration with sponsor Swiss private bank, Pictet & Cie.
We were appointed to manage the PR campaigns for 2009 and 2010, helping to appoint nominators worldwide, working on shortlist announcements and awareness-raising events at venues such as the Rencontres des Arles, galleries in London, Hong Kong and Paris and finalist exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Musée Elysee in Lausanne and the Mall Galleries in London.
Sir John Soane’s Museum
We worked with the Sir John Museum on their key fundraising campaign "Opening Up the Soane", the £7m refurbishment that launched in 2011, as well as the 200th anniversary of the building and various associated projects.
Our outreach succeeded in bringing press who had not been to the museum for decades back to this much-loved national treasure.
Coverage Highlights
The Wallace Collection
Working with The Wallace Collection from 2004-2015, we promoted its changing exhibition programme and provided strategic PR advice on the overall activities of the museum.
Highlight campaigns included the Boucher: Seductive Visions show, where we teamed up with Cohn & Wolfe and the Persuaders (event planners) to deliver marketing, public relations, sponsorship and launch event management for the Wallace Collection’s most ambitious exhibition to date. Vivienne Westwood opened the exhibition, dressed in an incredible replica of the pink Madame de Pompadour costume portrayed in Boucher’s famous painting. Our PR campaign delivered in excess of £1m in coverage and reached an audience of approx 32 million.
We also worked on the controversial Damien Hirst exhibition in the galleries, which generated an immense amount of coverage and drew in a much younger audience to shake up The Wallace's visitor profile.
Our work with the Wallace gained us new clients including: the Rothschilds' contemporary art programme at Waddesdon Manor; and John Murray Publisher's exhibition on Osbert Lancaster, introducing the art press to the business.