ClimateCultures presents our growing portfolio of new and recent works from our members: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, film, audio or visual art, courses, projects and other works from our network of artists, curators and researchers exploring creative responses to ecological and climate change.
This is a space for members to share something that reflects their present work as part of their overall practice on our topics. As a whole, the evolving showcase gives a snapshot of what inspires and energises the ClimateCultures community and it is open to all members.
Creative Showcase contributors: Ifeoluwa Abhulimen, James Aldridge, Nadine Andrews, Denise Baden, Julian Bishop, Nancy Campbell, Laura Coleman, Hanien Conradie, Jo Dacombe, Laura Donkers, Evgenia Emets, Cathy Fitzgerald, Christopher Garthe, Michael Gresalfi, Brit Griffin, Stanley Grill, Alan Hesse, Sarah Hymas, Jacqui Jones, Neil Kitching, Ivilina Kouneva, Jennifer Leach, Bill McGuire, Helen Moore, Sally Moss, James Murray-White, Selva Ozelli, Dan Pooley, Jules Pretty, Rod Raglin, Oliver Raymond-Barker, Peter Reason, Aindreas Scholz, Katrin Spranger, Ursula Troche, Robin Walter & Quentin Young.
The showcase features one current work per member but, of course, everyone is welcome to bring additional works. You can find any earlier pieces in our Creative Showcase archive — including earlier works from Michael Gresalfi, Stanley Grill & Selva Ozelli.
Members: If you’d like to feature something, see our Creative Showcase content guide.
5th October 2026
Photographic artist and researcher Aindreas Scholz discusses his photographic installation, where cyanotype is both image and material event. And So I Watch You From Afar is part of ongoing research into photography's material footprint, reconsidering it not only as technique, but as a process that registers the environmental conditions in which an image is made. Read More 
23rd July 2026
Ecopoet Dr Helen Moore's latest collection, The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas, is celebrated as confirming her "as the most imaginative and committed ecopoet of our time." She reflects on the book and the genesis of one poem, which conveys hope in how we can resist the forces of destruction and seek Thrutopian paths forward. Read More 
25th March 2026
Writer and filmmaker James Murray-White celebrates the Rivers of Film Festival he curated in Cambridge, working with local partnerships. James commissioned 10 short films as a catalyst for conversation and deeper thinking on rivers and water bodies and as a response to growing activism on water health and water care, meeting water knowledge with heart. Read More 
25th February 2026
Artist Ifeoluwa Abhulimen shares her new sculpture using reclaimed, discarded materials, which is born from observing the subtle yet powerful determination of life to adapt and persist. The flowers in Delicate Resilience are not pristine; they are negotiating their environment. The work acknowledges that human excess has altered the landscape irrevocably, while honouring nature’s quiet Read More
19th November 2025
Artist Hanien Conradie's exhibition, Water-Verse, showcases a decade of painting, film and performance where she has worked with water as both medium and teacher. This ongoing, evolving collaboration with water offers a deep meditation on our relationship with the natural world, at a time when droughts, floods, and ecological crises are shaping our shared future. Read More 
10th November 2025
Writer Jules Pretty's 'Story for Climate and Nature Recovery' YouTube channel offers short films with stories about people and places and how story can help bring transformation. "In the face of the great interlocking crises, what kinds of language, story, and values might we use to find multiple, complementary ways out of the dark woods?" Read More 
29th October 2025
Artist Michael Gresalfi's original lyrics and AI instructions produce a 1940s cabaret-style saxophone blues that asks us to consider the environmental impacts of our food production and consumption. Accompanied by Michael's 'Cow' painting, 'Drop the Beef' highlights how practising intensive animal farming on a massive scale produces a significant amount of the greenhouse gas methane. Read More 
28th June 2025
Sculptor Dan Pooley's 'Road Gator Fossil' takes the form of a blown-out tyre carved in Devon metamorphic marble as a physical manifestation of the Anthropocene: a technofossil that may one day be found in our future strata and serve as a reminder of our impact on the environment, coastal erosion and the fragility of life. Read More 
3rd June 2025
Creative director Christopher Garthe shares the thinking behind a manifesto promoting his desire to reposition scenography as an active agent for transformation towards a more sustainable society. An example of its seven principles of participatory, inclusive, content-driven, sufficiency-focused, circular, stimulating, and impact-oriented design in action explores extreme weather events and makes the climate crisis visceral. Read More 
20th March 2025
Professor of sustainability Denise Baden shares the thinking behind her new novel, Murder in the Climate Assembly. It is essentially a roadmap to a sustainable future in the form of a campus novel/whodunnit. Writing fiction rather than academic texts helps to soothe her climate anxiety as well as engaging a wider audience in climate action.
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4th November 2024
Artist and educator Ivilina Kouneva's collaboration with poet Jaclyn Piudik, "For Rituals and Visuals: a Myth under my Skin..." involved three residencies in Canada, France and the USA. Here, she shares a short diary of their collaboration, where "the mythical lurks through daily life" and "sense of place forms an important part in our travels." Read More 
1st December 2023
Artist James Aldridge gives a short video tour of his recent Drawing on Water exhibition. This brought together artworks that emerged out of the Queer River arts-based research project he set up in 2020, using an audiovisual installation and his 'Walking Pages' to look at his individual, embodied relationship with a range of local wetlands. Read More 
24th August 2023
Through his songs, writer Peter Reason explores many rich themes: grief, rage and despair at our ecological catastrophe; beauty and wonder at the world; deep participation in life on Earth, and taking seriously the panpsychic and animist perspective that the world is alive, sentient and speaks to us, if only we will attend and listen. Read More 
21st August 2023
Artist and writer Ursula Troche showcases a video using washed-up discarded fishing rope, recovered and stitched together, to explore the growing threat of 'ghost gear' and the haunting of our seas by plastic waste. Picked Up the First Pieces has become the start of a series of video works using imagination to tell plastic stories. Read More 
10th August 2023
Ecological artist Laura Donkers shares Stormy Weather, a short film that conveys collective collusion in climate change through a combination of verbal message, moving film image, and soundscapes of storm, bird song and dance music that pulls the viewer into the personal and collective experience of Cyclone Gabrielle in Aotearoa New Zealand in February 2023. Read More 
20th February 2023
Rather than aiming at overt eco-fi or cli-fi markets, Rod Raglin's novels use romance, action or mystery genres to feature normal people confronting urgent environmental issues. "Preaching to the converted doesn’t enlist new members in the battle to save our planet. I attempt to write entertaining books that appeal to a larger spectrum of society."
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5th January 2023
"1.8 takes a critical view on the approximately 706 million gallons of waste oil that enter the ocean every year". Katrin Spranger's piece powerfully uses performance with oil itself to bring home the global impact of pollution and waste on our oceans and wildlife, visually depicting how much crude oil we consume and release daily. Read More 
2nd October 2022
"Much of my music is composed as a means to encourage others to think about the possibility of world peace." Stanley Grill's four-piece composition expresses the ancient Jain, Hindu and Buddhist concept of 'ahimsa' ('non-harm' in our relationship with the rest of the natural world) in his learning from great historic figures and his grandfather. Read More 
29th August 2022
"At times it can feel frivolous, or even treacherous, to keep laughing. But let’s not let the bastards get us down in the mouth, eh?" With her improv background and a course from Sustainable Stand Up, writer and editor Sally Moss created an online comedy routine to communicate climate change with humour and compassion.
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7th August 2022
“We decided that what we could do was to let the trees know they were not alone … in community, communicate to them how deeply they are loved, and to be with them through their impending violation.” With composite photography and video, Jennifer Leach, witnesses creative community resistance to the corporate felling of 112 trees. Read More 
18th July 2022
"The installations highlight our preoccupation with physical boundaries but also consider thresholds of thought and the necessity for a shared sense of purpose." Six artworks from multi-media artist Jacqui Jones utilise maps to provide a voice and fire imagination on the fragile equilbrium of our social and ecological systems and themes of sustainability and regeneration.
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3rd April 2022
"The project is a reflection on community and landscape and how these interact in space and within time." Art of Shading the Sun, a poetic film from Evgenia Emets, speaks from the perspective of the land 100 years in the future, of a community and a landscape moving from extractivist practices to more regenerative approaches.
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24th September 2021
"The transboundary nature of digital art has allowed me to participate in fifteen international art shows during September." Selva Ozelli has been busy making art shows and interviewing artists, museums and international NGOs to support Net Zero Festival London and its aims to be a catalyst towards a net zero, equitable and resilient future.
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19th September 2021
"I always feel uneasy placing the self at the centre of a piece – the planet doesn’t and shouldn’t care a jot about my own views." Julian Bishop's poem asks how would the climate feel being messed around in this way - drawing on myths of an evil fairy child substituted for a human baby. Read More 
6th September 2021
"I see this as an anti-camera, one that does not strive for resolution and clarity ... but instead seeks to capture the essence of place whilst also providing sanctuary for the artist." In Trinity, Oliver Raymond-Barker's camera obscura images combine with commissioned texts, offering complex, interconnected narratives of land and histories of spirituality, protest, control.
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10th June 2021
"There are more than a million heartbeats ... nothing is like mine." In her discovery of a remarkable rainforest community of people and animals, Laura Coleman explores the meaning of love and rescue against backdrops of deforestation, illegal animal trafficking and forest fires, and the work of a pioneering charity created by young Bolivian volunteers. Read More 
19th April 2021
"Both books speak to my ongoing need for connection and intra-veloping with the growing world. They explore how I experience what I breathe, how water, soil and grasses unfold from me and I from them." In melt and the hispering, Sarah Hymas encourages us to rethink, blur, mix up, remake the stories we've been told. Read More 
12th February 2021
"Unaware of last night's events, the next day our friends resume their journey. Once again, the powerful ocean currents drag them ever southwards..." In Alan Hesse's comic book, Pole to Pole, Captain Polo leaves his disrupted Arctic home, seeking better hunting grounds. Unbeknown to him, he has onboard a mysterious stowaway with his own agenda. Read More 
8th February 2021
"Even where I live in Scotland, I am aware of the changing climate around me." In Carbon Choices, Neil Kitching moves beyond our frustration with the lack of action to tackle climate change and nature loss over the past 30 years to set out the practical ways that governments, businesses and individuals can change now. Read More 
2nd February 2021
“Now you must be careful. The Wicked Weather of the West is a cunning shapeshifter.” Quentin D. Young's comic-book, The Wizard of O2 re-imagines the classic tale to bring us back to the Land of Oz for a 21st-century adventure in science and magic, creating space for humor and hope in the face of climate catastrophe. Read More
