Harriet Hellman is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily in ceramic sculpture. Her practice is deeply rooted in environmental engagement. “ My work explores ecological fragility in coastal landscapes, addressing issues such as ocean warming, pollution, and coastal erosion. Through performative making practices in ceramics, drawing, photography, and film, I investigate the relationship between ‘human’ time […]
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Katrin Spranger seeks to expose the tension between consumption, waste, and ecological awareness. In doing so she engages with materials that reference human exploitation of nature. Katrin Spranger is a multi-disciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, sculptural painting, and jewellery. Her practice responds to environmental crises, addressing themes of plastic pollution, crude oil spills, water […]
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Véronique Chance has a long-term interest in the representation of the body in which the activity of running plays a key part. Her practice has a strong relationship to performance, documentation, technology and the embodied dynamics of spectatorship, The runs Véronique Chance undertakes are performed in specific places along pre-determined routes. She mediates them to […]
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Caroline Wright is an Irish multi-disciplinary artist now based in Suffolk, England. Caroline’s practice explores identity and loss in relation to place. She questions how we can hold onto things through making, referencing place attachment (Scannel, Gifford 2010), and the emotional cognitive bonds between an individual and a place. Negotiation between human body and nature […]
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Rosie Issitt is an artist and writer based in Norfolk. Through motifs of the everyday and inspired by the natural world, Rosie Issitt’s works hold narratives of belonging, interconnection, and embodiment. Her practice explores and celebrates the intrinsic connection we all share with our environment, meditating on the coalescence between human beings and everything else. […]
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Buglife is a conservation organisation dedicated to the protection of invertebrates and their habitats. It focuses on various conservation efforts, including habitat protection and species recovery. An important part of its work is raising public awareness about the ecological importance of invertebrates. Invertebrates are vitally important to a healthy planet Invertebrates are facing an extinction […]
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Nerissa Cargill Thompson explores environmental issues in her work. Mindful of the entirety of the climate crisis, she considers many themes from plastic pollution and waste, through textile art, using recycled materials. Nerissa particularly uses old clothing, and creates mixed-media sculptures from textiles and concrete (and more recently papercrete). She casts her work in the […]
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Established in 2011, Norfolk Rivers Trust is a charity dedicated to restoring, protecting and enhancing Norfolk’s water environments for all. Our goal is to create and maintain healthy, diverse river and wetland ecosystems that are abundant in biodiversity and resilient to a changing climate. From the food we eat to the water we drink; these […]
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Liz Waugh McManus is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses research, sculpture, and digital technologies. Through her work she is equally keen to engage in artistic collaboration, and community. She specialises in glass alongside other materials. Liz Waugh McManus’s practice includes a wide range of media, sound and animation. Her interactive artworks engage viewers multi-modally […]
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Myka Baum ‘s practice is rooted in empathy for the overlooked and broken, seeking to reshape humanity’s relationship with nature through close collaboration with organisms such as earthworms, fungi, and bacteria. Myka Baum is a visual artist with a diverse background in textiles, garment production, and operations management. After a decade in the office, they […]
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Susan Brinkhurst is a multi-disciplinary artist often working with natural materials found in the landscape. Whether working in film or drawing, she is interested in materiality, scale and the physical process. Her large-scale charcoal drawings balance between figuration and abstraction. She employs a combination of atmospheric charcoal surfaces which she subjects to an onslaught of […]
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Pamela Sloan is a Chicago based artist and environmental advocate, whose current work, “Unearthed”, delves into the profound relationship between humanity and soil. The art begins with a simple yet powerful process. Paper is buried in soil allowing nature take the lead. Pamela selects each burial site for its symbolic connections to conservation and transformation. […]
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George Nuku is an artist with a deep sensitivity to connections between all human life, nature and environment. Born in New Zealand and of Maori, Scottish and German descent, he creates extraordinary environments which connect strongly to his native culture and history. Arriving in Britain in 2006, his work was transformed from more or less […]
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Since meeting in 2010 Daniel & Clara have dedicated themselves to a shared life of creative experimentation. The artists work across moving image, photography, performance and mail art to explore the nature of human experience, perception and reality. The camera is Daniel & Clara’s primary tool. They work with both digital and analogue, still and moving […]
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Jack Heslop trained as a civil engineer and worked in flood risk management and coastal erosion consulting for seven years. His professional practice is now centred in academic research into the global impacts of sea level rise at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, based at the University of East Anglia. Jack Heslop regularly […]
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Bill Jackson is a film maker and photographer who seeks both to suspend time and create place. This he does by layering still and moving image resulting in an existential experience of the landscape. Bill Jackson works at night “I work in the landscape at night from dusk till dawn, especially the time when the […]
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Aindreas Scholz’s work addresses the urgency of the climate crisis while pushing the boundaries of technical and conceptual exploration. As an artist committed to environmental responsibility, he blends 19th-century and contemporary photographic techniques to develop sustainable printing practices. Through each image, Aindreas Scholz examines the interconnectedness of humans, non-humans, and the environment. He crafts narratives […]
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Elspeth Owen is a radical, entirely original ceramic artist. Her artistic work has grown out of her position as a feminist and member of many environmental movements. These have stretched, from CND in the 1960s, to Greenham Common in the 1980s, to Extinction Rebellion today. Originally Elspeth Owen studied history at Oxford University and then worked […]
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Gordon Senior is a sculptor whose major themes are linked to nature and humans’ relationship and influence upon it. His sculptures identify frozen moments in time in nature. Currently, these might represent significant pauses in the growth of arable grains and plants (farm weeds) that have become part of our natural landscapes In 2017 Gordon […]
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Marcia Teusink is an American visual artist based in London, whose practice explores climate change, collapsing environments and regrowth. Her recent projects explore the colonial history of the movement of plants around the globe and the unintended consequences of this displacement through painting, installation, video and mixed media. Botanical stories Much of Marcia Teusink’s work […]
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Michael Begg is an award winning experimental composer, sound artist and coder, based in East Lothian, Scotland. He is an Associate Artist at The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, and has held residencies with the European Marine Board, Ocean ARTic Partnership, the Mexican Centre for Music and Sound Art, and Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute. […]
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Eleni Maragaki is focused in her practice on bridging the dichotomy between urban construction and the natural environment. For her, architecture is in constant dialogue with the landscape. As a response to the densely manufactured urban space, Eleni Maragaki is inspired by the delicacy found in the system of natural structures. Deconstruction of the landscape […]
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As a freelance artist and designer Heidi McEvoy-Swift’s work is multidisciplined, moving freely between theatre, education, participatory work and fine-art. She is committed to working only with waste and found materials, much of which is organic. Heidi McEvoy-Swift was one of GroundWork artists in residence in 2023, showing her work in The Ground Beneath Our […]
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The Heavy Water Collective (HWC) comprises three women artists: Victoria Lucas, Maud Haya-Baviera and Joanna Whittle. Their project draws from archives and museum collections across the UK and beyond to reclaim historical narratives in a contemporary context. “The materiality of heavy water is mystical” Heavy Water Collective takes its name from a form of water […]
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Henny Burnett is interested in the dynamics of opposites: domestic and industrial, useful and useless, temporary or permanent, beautiful and ugly,. She is a mixed media artist working mainly in sculpture and installation, and focusing on the domestic and everyday. The artist’s work, ’365 Days of Plastic’ was the start of her investigation of the […]
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Iain Biggs’ work and research explores the relationship between people and ecologies of place, community, memory, and identity. He started his professional life working as a painter/printmaker/teacher. He then became involved in an interweaving range of different practices. These included deep mapping, writing, drawing, and, occasionally, site-specific performance and other time-based work. “I believe that […]
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Simon Woolham is an artist and also a lecturer at the University of Huddersfield. His primary practice is expanded drawing. However, the many strands he has to his practice include being a musician, as L.A.S.H. He performs the everyday as his alter-ego ‘The Frog’. Simon Woolham is based at ROGUE ARTISTS’ STUDIOS in Manchester “Providing […]
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Roger Coulam studied as an Environmental Scientist, but his connection to the rural landscape led to work as a photographer, starting in 1998. Roger Coulam’s storm chasing start…. During eight years from 2000-2007 Roger Coulam developed a worldwide reputation as a ground-breaking photographer of severe weather, making several appearances on television and radio.Eventually disillusioned with […]
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Lynn Dennison explores our relationship with our surroundings and how we see and experience our environment. She works across several disciplines, including still and moving image, installation and collage. Her single and multiple screen videos are often based on the documentary of place, exploring themes of memory, history, nostalgia, and the boundaries between the real […]
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