HALO
Nov 5, 2025 – ongoing through 2026
Sunderland, UK
The UK’s first carbon-neutral city-centre neighbourhood presents the UK premiere of HALO at the Expo Sunderland Pavilion. Richardson’s HALO (2021) is a sequel to one of the artist’s earliest works entitled Camp, a video which presents a cliché of outdoor life filmed in 1998. Representing the past, present and future, HALO references the significant feedback loop we are now in after decades of warnings. Campfires are now banned in the summer in British Columbia where the artist lives. With severe, extended droughts being the new normal, the risk of wildfire is extreme. Echoing a landmark scientific study which warns of increasingly extreme heatwaves, droughts and flooding (which this heatwave was followed by months later) the UN Secretary General said: “If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe. But, as today’s report makes clear, there is no time for delay and no room for excuses.”