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Artist Siobhan McDonald named UN Climate Action Programme's first artist of the week with 'beautiful and intelligent' mixed media exhibition Crystalline
Barely 24 hours after the word had got out, Siobhan McDonald was sitting at a sunny Paris cafi(C) terrace last Saturday still coming to grips with having just been named the UN Climate Action Programme's first artist of the week in its new #Art4Climate series.
"The first I knew about it was when I opened my computer and saw the news had gone viral on Twitter and Facebook," she says. "I am thrilled, of course, but also a bit humbled - my work strives to get the message across about the evolution of nature and the cosmos."