The Royal Exchange, photography by Brummell Magazine, 2020

Nested in The Royal Exchange, the artworks will be presented in an immersive setting with the opportunity to purchase the pieces via a silent auction. Bringing to the forefront the pressing need to work together in changing the future ahead and reevaluating waste streams, The Crossover Project aims to celebrate the power of collaboration when tackling global issues such as this.

Working with a collective of fashion designers and furniture makers to capture excess material, the waste will be presented to a group of artists who will transform the materials into captivating artworks. From textiles, to sawdust and timber offcuts, the final collection will be a thought-provoking insight into material application and circularity.

The exhibition is open to the public from 23rd June until 8th July 10am - 5pm with Thursday Lates until 9pm at The Royal Exchange London. The artworks will be available to bid on in a silent auction hosted by The Auction Collective, allowing the project to showcase a tangible, commercial solution to the waste issues we face today. A portion of profits from the sale of the artworks is being donated to The Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Environmental artist David Buckland will be supporting the project and exhibiting two of his artworks from his series ICE TEXTS.

David Buckland is a designer, artist and film-maker whose lens-based works have been exhibited in numerous galleries in London, Paris and New York and collected by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Getty Collection, Los Angeles amongst others. Five books of his photographs have been and his short film for the Dance for the Camera season Dwell Time was broadcast on BBC1.

Since 2000 Buckland has created and now directs the Cape Farewell project, whose ambition is to bring artists, scientists and educators together to collectively address the Climate Crises. The results of seven High Arctic expeditions have led to a range of outcomes, including a major exhibition, the publication of the book ‘Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change’ and a BBC broadcast of the film ‘Art from the Arctic.’