Join us at the Open Eye Gallery to celebrate LOOK Climate Lab 2026, with drinks and music!
LOOK Climate Lab is a biennial programme exploring how photography can be a relevant and powerful medium for talking about climate change.
We are transforming the gallery into a lab, bringing together researchers, activists and artists to test their ideas, and encouraging our audiences to discuss systematic changes needed for dealing with the climate crisis.
LOOK Climate Lab 2026 will take place from 23 January 2026 to 29 March 2026, with this year’s programme focusing on gardens and how people connect with green spaces. From memorials to places to hang out with friends, from horticultural perfection to an accidental hedge near your house or a tree that brings back memories, we examine the role plants play in our lives, and how our lives shape theirs.
Music from Dance for Plants, a DJ collective who do sustainable parties to help environmental charities.
LOOK Climate Lab 2026 projects include:
Pansy Project. Paul Harfleet has been planting pansies at sites of homophobic and transphobic abuse since 2015. Through this quiet yet powerful act, the ongoing project gently confronts hate crime and brings visibility to LGBTQ+ experiences that often go unreported. We’re delighted to see Paul Harfleet featured in the exhibition, following his powerful contribution to Remember Nature 2025 as part of Homotopia Festival, where he presented The Pansy Project, including a moving Day of Action hosted by FACT on the 4th of November. Paul’s work transforms sites of homophobic and transphobic abuse into quiet acts of resistance, care and visibility.
Homotopia are delighted to partner with Open Eye Gallery presenting the LOOK Climate lab. Other partners include: dot-art, Chester Zoo, RHS Garden Bridgewater, Salford Youth Service, TreeStory Veterans’ Oaks, University of Salford, Victoria Park Butterfly House and Garden, Wigan Borough Council.
With support from: Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.