Visual climate change art 2005–2015: discourse and practiceDuring the last decade (2005–2015), artists from all over the world have taken on climate change as the subject matter of their work. Encouraged by activists (most notably Bill McKibben), artists have appropriated climate change as a social problem and decided that they too, alongside journalists, scientists, and activists, were called upon to engage with this issue. Dozens of noteworthy exhibitions [...] have placed climate change art on the map as a new and timely genre, displaying relevant artworks both alongside climate negotiations and in dedicated gallery spaces such as the Barbican in London. [...] Although caught in the net of many criticisms, climate change art plays a crucial role in allowing the public to rethink the role of human beings’ everyday activities in irrevocably altering the climate system. In effect, climate change art makes the Anthropocene a cultural reality.
Nurmis, Joanna. "Visual Climate Change Art 2005–2015: Discourse and Practice." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Climate Change, vol. 7, no. 4, 2016, pp. 501-516.