Tipping Point

Artist Luke Jerram has created a thrilling new sound and light installation. Tipping Point is a simulated forest fire combining smoke, lights, and sound to create a captivating affect, and raise critical awareness about banks investing our money in destroying forests.

In collaboration with award winning composers Dan Jones and Simon Birch the artwork includes an immersive soundtrack which includes audio of trees burning, chainsaws whirring, animals running and birds flying away, to bring the reality of deforestation to life. The soundtrack also contains interviews with people about their direct experience of forest fires.

Tipping Point was commissioned by University of Bristol Botanic Garden and the charity Make My Money Matter. 

Members of the public first experienced the spectacle in early October 2024, at University of Bristol Botanic Garden. As well as a programme of talks over the weekend, on site there were staff from the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute of the Environment to talk with visitors about forest fires and climate change.

Research shows that £2 in every £10 invested in the average UK pension goes to companies linked to deforestation. This despite pension holders’ clear views that they don’t want their money driving deforestation. The artwork aims to inspire the public to pressure the pensions industry to cut deforestation from our investments.  Find out more about this here.

Tipping Point is in many ways a good news story, in that once we know what banks are doing with our money, we can decide to act, to move our investments to more ethical companies, some of which are actually fighting to make the world a better place.

With Thanks to
Bristol Botanic Gardens
Make My Money Matter
Friends of the Garden

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