Art and Energy’s Chloe speaks at our How to Bury the Giant exhibition PV
Hello everyone, and welcome. I’m Chloë from the Art and Energy Collective, and on behalf of Naomi, Jenny and Cat, I want to thank you for being here tonight — and to thank the more than 80,000 people who have contributed their time, their creativity, and their care to this project.
We’re so grateful to the Market Hall for hosting us, and to all the partners, friends, families our board and all of the many volunteers who have helped us along the way. We'd also like to say a particular thanks to Dartmoor National Park Authority FIPL fund, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, our Crowdfunders and Aviva Community Fund for making it possible for us to be here and celebrating creative climate action at this important time.
Right now, as the world gathers for COP30, global leaders are asking what more we can do about the climate emergency. And here, at our Bury The Giant exhibition, we’re asking something slightly different: what happens when we approach these questions with creativity, with imagination, with heart?
At Art and Energy, we believe that creativity isn’t just decoration on the edge of change — it’s a way of making change possible. It builds our inner resilience, helps us stay with difficult truths, and reminds us of our power to shape the future together.
This work began over a decade ago, in 2013, when Regen created a space for artists and energy experts to explore what could happen if we brought these worlds together. From that seed, in 2018, the Art and Energy Collective was born.
Since then, we’ve engaged over 150,000 people through mass-participation artworks and interactive solar pieces. We created the UK’s first etched solar panel artworks, and we’re honoured that one now sits in a museum in Switzerland — proof that beauty and technology, art and energy, belong together.
Through this work, we’ve learned that creativity can unlock conversations about our shared future that statistics alone cannot reach. When people make something together, they also make space — for reflection, for courage, and for connection.
The Mossy Carpet is a living symbol of that. Thousands of textile tufts inspired by moss,moss from city to moor, growing in between paving stones and on wild peatland landscapes — these gestures of hope have been woven into something vast. Each one celebrates a small action for a better world. Together, they form a landscape of care, of possibility.
As you walk through the exhibition, I invite you to notice what calls to you — a story, a spark, a texture — and to see what action feels right for you. Please peruse a copy of our new publication for this exhibition to find out more about the works on display.
If you take one thing away from this event, let it be this: your creativity, connected with nature, is powerful. Even the smallest act — like moss purifying air, holding water, slowing down, capturing carbon, nurturing life, and quietly building the ground beneath our feet — can make a difference.
Together, we can bury the giant and grow something beautiful.
