Artists Naja Abelsen and Eleanor Havsteen Franklin at NIRS

This visit will involve a workshop with children at Narsap Atuarfia School and visits to Narsaq Museum and Upernaviarsuk plant research station. The stay in Narsaq will form part of the artists preparations for an exhibition with Susie Hamilton at The Royal Geographical Society in London: 'SILA - Learning from Inuit Culture about about Sustainable Living and Survival'.

During their stay they will develop art works that will explore a more healthy and environmentally sustainable relationship to nature. This work will also be informed by archive material at the Royal Geographic Society in London on Susie og Eleanors forefathers who were both participants in Arctic expeditions in Greenland: August Courtauld and Ejnar Mikkelsen.

The exhibition is supported by the Rothschild Foundation.