Changing Circumstances is an expansive presentation of international contemporary work, video and new media art addressing the challenges presented by global change. An important aspect is how individual artists use their work to address the impact of human behaviour on the natural environment.

The purpose is to provoke, through visual art, new ways of thinking about how we see our role within that environment and our connections to the rest of the planet, and how this affects our future. It looks at ways in which artists and scientists are re-visioning our relationship with the earth, its oceans and its atmosphere, confronting a broad range of issues: a changing climate, water, energy, biodiversity, food production, population, natural resources, waste and migration.