Burning issue: student art against climate change – in pictures

Doomsday clocks, parched land and thirsty polar bears – as COP21 kicks off, political artist Peter Kennard has worked with Royal College of Art students to create a poignant and provocative exhibition on environmental threat

• Fiddling While Earth Burns is at the Dyson Gallery in Battersea, London until 8 December


Monday 30 November 2015 07.00 GMT




Burn Baby Burn by Myka Baum
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Five Minutes to Midnight by Peter Kennard
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Plane Banana by Mollie Tearne
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COKEBEAR by Eunho Rhee
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Endgame by Peter Kennard
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Earth Sold by Myka Baum
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Burning structure by Julia Parkinson
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Coal in the hole mining poster by Julia Parkinson
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Portrait, oil on earth by Peter Kennard
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Trades by Lewk Wilmshurst
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The Haywain 31 December 2099 by Peter Kennard
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