To place the whale’s story at the heart of South Georgia and raise money to support  whale research, SGHT is raising funds for an ambitious sculpture, to be sited on the Flensing Plan at Grytviken Whaling Station,

The artwork is called ‘Commensalis – the Spirit Tables of South Georgia’ by Jerwood prize-winning sculptor Michael Visocchi.

SGHT has commissioned this sculpture in collaboration with GSGSSI to reinterpret Grytviken and South Georgia, once the centre of Antarctic whaling, where over 175,000 whales were slaughtered during the years of the industry. Thanks to humankind’s changing attitude to nature and the whale, South Georgia’s wildlife is resurging and the island has been called ‘an ecosystem in recovery’ by Sir David Attenborough.

With your help, Commensalis as a sculpture can send a message of hope – that as humans we have the power to reverse past damage to the natural world – and highlight the importance of research by organisations like British Antarctic Survey to help us understand more about whales, so that we can protect their future.