Eighty Five Seasons
Every portrait needs a subject. Every subject tells a story.
Here, global temperature tells its story across 31,046 daily readings from 1941 to 2025.
Fifteen portraits from data by Mac Bryla.
- Where
- Gallery Lane Cove, 164 Longueville Rd, Lane Cove
- Exhibition dates
- 12 October to 31 October 2026
- Gallery hours
- Tue – Fri 10am – 4.30pm, Sat 10am – 2.30pm
- Admission
- Free entry
Works
Click a work for a larger view, its price and a link to enquire.
“As scientists and service providers, we tend to focus on the way our data can be best translated to inform policies and decisions. But importantly, we are also human beings – influenced by emotions that we can’t always explain or control. This beautiful work, generated from our ERA5 climate data, invites audiences to ask the same questions that scientists ask when we look at the data: ‘What are we seeing? What does this mean?’ This is the reason why we provide open-source data at ECMWF, to ensure everyone can interact with information on their own terms, to make sense of humanity’s relationship to the climate.
This stunning exhibition is a prime example that data is art, too. It offers a different way to encounter the history of our climate – not only through analysis and evidence, but through emotion, curiosity and human connection.”
Dr Carlo Buontempo, Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
Opening night
Wednesday 14 October 2026, Gallery Lane Cove
I build the tools to create these images. The toolmaking is as much a part of the process as the experimenting that follows. I start with data as the raw material, something recorded from the real world, and turn it into something else entirely. No images are generated by AI.
Every work is printed on Hahnemühle Museum Etching, a 350 gsm, 100% cotton archival fine art paper, and mounted on Alupanel, ready to hang. Printing and mounting by Pixel Perfect.
Source data: ERA5 daily global 2m air temperature, 1941 to 2025, via Climate Reanalyzer, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information it contains.