Hot Topic is the first popular science book to examine global warming from a New Zealand perspective.  Below is an excerpt of their review of Global Climate Change: A Primer, Duke University Press 2011.  You can read the full article here: http://hot-topic.co.nz/global-climate-change-a-primer/

“There may have been only one table in the first chapter, but the reader will already have encountered four of the striking illustrations from the batik silks of artist Mary Edna Fraser. These continue throughout the book. They’re fascinating depictions, often drawn from aerial photographs she has taken herself, of deltas, rivers, oceans, floods, fires, volcanoes, icebergs, glaciers, and more. Her art meshes splendidly with the book’s written material, engaging the imagination at the same time as the text does the intellect. It adds an appropriate poignancy to the message of the threats climate change carries for human life on the globe.”

Art is returning to Mary Edna’s studio from the Katherine E. Nash Gallery exhibit Reflections on Water, University of Minnesota, with artist Linda Gass, curated by artist Barbara Lee Smith.  This exhibit was sponsored by the Surface Design Association as part of Confluence, their international 2011 conference.  Thanks to Kimber Olson for coordinating this event.

From left to right: Approaching Santee, Ashepoo, Homage to Hokusai II, Eye of Hurricane Hugo