Adrian Flaherty Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW between relationship between climate change and our lives. Artists from different art movement and eras used to communicate more or less explicit messages in their artworks: do you think that artists can raise awareness to an ever growing audience on topical issues —as environmental ones — that affect our everchanging society? In particular, as an how do you considerthe role of artists in our globalised society? Adrian Flaherty: It is definitely important that artist do this! Art has always been a bit confrontational around the ideas of what art is and raised current issues in society in particular over the last century. Conventional art, i.e. landscapes, portraits and the human figure, have been replaced as the main genres with more conceptual art and categories such as Land Art and the modern day social initiative type projects that some artists are involved in, becoming more popular. My return to doing landscapes was done to express my need to see more of the world around me and generate work that both communicates ideas but also my desire to enjoy and show my appreciation of what nature has to offer. So, my aim is that if work can encourage that enjoyment or yes increase the awareness to the environment more in others, I would be very happy indeed. Nature should be appreciated and nurtured more because we very much rely on it for our survival. It doesn’t matter where you are, or what background you come from, most people would say that nature does things that humans find hard to beat aesthetically or indeed structurally. My studies in architecture have very much instilled in me the environmental side of