Iain Biggs

I work as an independent artist, teacher, and researcher with a particular interest in place seen through the lens of Felix Guattari’s ecosophy. I’m a Visiting Research Fellow at the Environmental Humanities Research Centre at Bath Spa University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Dundee. I help coordinate three creative research networks and also supervise doctoral students in the UK and the Irish Republic.

I have worked extensively on ‘deep mapping’ projects, produced artist’s books, publish on a range of academic and non-academic topics, and write a regular blog. In 2014, I held a Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship at NUI, Galway, and have recently been working in Bristol on a major AHRC-funded project exploring notions of hydro-citizenship. I currently work collaboratively with artist/activists involved in a variety of socially and environmentally engaged practices.

Iain’s ClimateCultures posts

Open Deep Mapping: Conversations-in-process, Places-in-time

17th June 2022

Independent artist and researcher Iain Biggs introduces a special new essay for our Longer section, reflecting on his practice of open deep mapping as an inclusive, creative approach to working with and in place, and moving beyond 'Business-as-Usual'. Read More

Disciplinary Agnosticism and Engaging with Ecologies of Place

24th March 2021

Artist and researcher Iain Biggs discusses Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place, his new co-authored book about the possibilities of creative work, ensemble practices and disciplinary agnosticism in seeking alternative and inclusive ways of belonging to this world. Read More

Five Notes on Thinking Through ‘Ensemble Practices’

10th September 2019

Artist and researcher Iain Biggs shares thoughts on the place of artists, and of creative ensemble practices, in a culture of possessive individualism that must urgently address its chronic failure of imagination in the face of eco-social crisis. Read More