PaleBlueDot
We have launched our online shop with a limited edition set of Ecology Cards to help raise funds for pollinator research at the University of Sussex. Scientists based at Prof. Dave Goulson’s Lab have founded The Buzz Club, an exciting … Read More
In celebration of #NatonalMeadowsDay on July 1st we posted some images of the 5th year of flowering in the Lost & Found Meadow – we’ve just added to these with some late flowering knapweeds, field scabious and cranesbill. There is … Read More
Air Bee n’ Bee is a Citizen Science project devised by The Buzz Club, a new charity led by Professor Dave Goulson at the University of Sussex, to assist scientists to collect research data on pollinators. Air Bee n’ Bee aims to encourage people to … Read More
2016 marks the 4th flowering of the Lost & Found mini meadow and some changes are needed. Knapweeds and Common Vetch now dominate so we need to cut earlier to encourage more diversity. So even though there are still lots of beautiful … Read More
Lost & Found is a powerful and challenging multi-media installation of visual arts created by PaleBlueDot founders Jane King and Neil Mabbs, to present evidence of links between our consumer driven culture and the decline of the natural world. This … Read More
Exhibitions & Events May – June 2015 We’re Here Now! 2015 We’re Here Now! is BACK. Around 300 people came to the opening event at the Castle Quay Shopping Centre in Banbury. For a second year Martin Carrolchick and Neil Mabbs have taken over empty units and … Read More
At the beginning of the month we attended the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC15) to support James Taylor from Broughton Grounds Farm deliver a presentation for Friends of the Earth – part of their slot on pollinators and sustainable agriculture. We met … Read More
On September 9th 2014 we launched our latest project – Bees & Weeds with our favourite collaborators, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Jane King and Neil Mabbs we were joined by over fifty art students from Banbury & … Read More
Lost and Found Exhibition at The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford We’re planning our next Lost & Found openings: Later this year on August 12th we open at ONCA in Brighton and building on the success of the We’re Here Now! festivals during … Read More
Jane King has been photographing the collection of UK bumblebee species – 27 in all – at Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), for Lost & Found. Some of the specimens are very old, dating from the 19th and … Read More