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An art exhibition entitled Artists for Albatrosses: 5 weeks on South Georgia* will be held at the Air Gallery in London, UK in October this year.

Work in the exhibition will be based on a field trip to the island by two internationally acclaimed wildlife artists, John Gale and Chris Rose. The artists sailed 1500 km in a 20-m yacht, experiencing 10-m waves and winds in excess of 80 knots, to sketch and paint albatrosses and other wildlife for the exhibition which will raise funds and awareness for BirdLife International's Save the Albatross Campaign.

The exhibition is being sponsored by the adventure travel company Hurtigruten, which will enable the artists to donate 25% of all sales to the campaign.  Both artists are also donating a significant piece of work to be auctioned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) for albatross conservation as well as a number of limited edition print runs, to be sold exclusively through the RSPB with all proceeds going to the Save the Albatross Campaign.

Artists for Albatrosses will be held at the Air Gallery, 32 Dover Street, London, UK during 3-15 October 2011 from 10h00 to 18h00.

Some of the artists' work can viewed at http://www.chrisrose-artist.co.uk and http://www.galleryofbirds.co.uk/.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 20 August 2011

*A dispute exists between the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (Islas Georgias del Sur y Islas Sandwich del Sur) and the surrounding maritime areas.