ARTS Council award-winning artist from London, Zsuzsanna Ardó carried our climate change land installations in many places along the Fylde Coast and the Lake District.

To directly engage the public she worked with groups of children, teenagers and adults in local spaces such as the Fleetwood Museum, Fleetwood Market, Blackpool Pier, St Anne’s playground the Ruskin Museum, Wordsworth Museum, the 15th century inn The Red Lion in Hawkshead, and others.

Ardó will include works created in these workshops in her exhibition at University College London in November in London.This exhibition will also include artwork by artists from six continents that Ardó curated over the past year, and will be featured at an art gallery in the Arctic, Morocco and the BAS research stations in Antarctica.

Vicky Slowe, director and curator at The Ruskin Museum, said: "John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900, was one of the first people, over 150 years ago, to observe the effects of industrial pollution on climate change, air & water quality, and the spirits of the factory work-force.

"He was horrified to see his beloved Alpine glaciers, around Chamonix, receding, and looking rather grubby; he was appalled by the desecration of rivers and springs, and shocked by the poisoning of land and nature – and lungs. He proposed ‘green belts’ and ‘smokeless zones’.

"He felt threatened by gloomy skies and dark clouds. He foresaw an Armageddon. And he tried to warn the world that planet earth was fragile, and that it’s balance was being changed for the worse. Nobody heeded him.

"So imagine how intrigued I was, as Curator of The Ruskin Museum in Coniston, to receive a phone call and later explanatory emails about artist Zsuzsanna Ardó’s Polar self Portrait project – a series of art, science and fun workshops and pop up art, running peripatetically across the North West of England and ending in the Lake District, formed of fire and shaped by ice.

"So on Thursday 4 August, Zsuzsanna came, engagingly engaged our visitors and successfully cajoled some into taking part in her Polar self Portrait workshops.

John Coombe, events officer at the Wordsworth Museum, said: “Zsuzsanna was working with a variety of different people from all over the world, and they were thoroughly engaged with the workshop — well attended and I’m sure people got a lot out of it.”

Jeff Cowton, curator at the Wordsworth Museum, added: “A morning of creativity at the Wordsworth Trust. Visitors inspired by Zsuzsanna Ardó artist under William Wordsworth’ watchful eye. The pictures show it to have been a great success.”