Artist
An artistic director interested in how art practices can bring empowering messages about climate, and a senior lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts (University of Birmingham).
A designer and scenographer, and cofounder of Terabac and of EcoStage Pledge, an online initiative to promote sustainability amongst theatre practitioners.
An emerging new media artist whose artistic strategies for understanding natural processes reflect previous research as a metallurgist and lifelong interests in nature, photography and science.
A visual artist in analogue and digital media, fascinated by the ways built and natural structures change over time, currently exploring the ephemeral nature of wetlands.
An artist, educator, activist and collaborator across disciplines creating events, performances and projects that invite people into enquiring relationships with each other and the land.
A multidisciplinary artist whose work, often collaborative, is inspired by difficult contemporary and future sociological concerns surrounding issues such as food security and migration.
An actor, creative producer and founding member of company HOAX, who blend text, physical theatre and comedy to give voice to social and ecological issues.
An artist, teacher and storyteller creating experiences for participation with the natural environment, and training as a facilitator in deep listening and the work that reconnects.
An independent researcher and creative curator, founding Climate Museum UK as an emerging mobile kit of ‘loose parts’ that creatively stirs responses to the climate emergency.
Author of two near-future cli-fi novels and a writer of poetic/story musings, whose interests lay in reconciling with non-humans and exploring the human/creature boundaries.
A composer, improviser and performer who is currently focused on work with Terabac, composing songs about bugs and devising music inspired by the language of pheromones.
An interdisciplinary artist and founder of the Nomad/9 Interdisciplinary MFA, exploring resiliency through poetic intervention and pragmatic engagement, including intimate interspecies works and international educational initiatives.
A poet and teacher exploring the effects of climate change, and Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
An artist and researcher exploring eco-social wellbeing by bringing art and non-art practices together in creative practice and offering Ecoliteracy learning for the arts.
A playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of science, policy, art, and climate change, and co-organizer of Climate Change Theatre Action.
A writer, editor, performer, project-maker and researcher exploring ways of bringing together traditional story forms and science communication with a focus on ecological wonder tales.
A poet with a background in theatre, collaborations with an illustrator and a songwriter, and practical and creative engagements with local landscapes and nature.
An artist whose painting and drawing explores environmental change through abstracted forms, registering the effects of climate change while evoking human systems undermined by environmental realities.
A sculptor and photographer whose time-based work often reflects scientific and environmental concerns and reveals an intrinsic bias towards process and event.
A writer and performer of work for theatre, wrestling down big ideas about the world until they’re small enough for us all to swallow.
A writer of plays and children’s books who’s involved in climate activism as a divestment campaigner, member of “BP or not BP?” and an occasional mermaid.
A novelist, scriptwriter and writer of comics and graphic novels, as well as a non-fiction writer on carbon-free energy and sustainable development.
A multi-disciplinary artist and cultural activist interested in equality, diversity, inclusion, environment, climate-change and society.
A writer of long and short fiction and articles, who started writing about climate change to answer the question – ‘How, really, will it be?’
A freelance theatre director and writer, and Theatre and Performance Section Editor of It’s Freezing in LA!, an inter-disciplinary magazine about Climate Change
A writer, mainly for children and young people, who is passionate about engaging people with climate change and the beauty of the natural world.
A writer and photographer, using these to inform, educate, discuss, and make people think about the world around us and our impact upon it.
A physical theatre performer and director and founding member of HOAX, specialising in concrete pipe dreams and provocative contemporary work.
A poet, playwright, essayist, broadcaster and novelist whose latest climate change work is the near-future live performance for radio re-broadcast [sic] of ‘Ireland has struck oil!‘
A fine artist concerned with place and belonging, informed by the cosmology of African animism within the complex human and other-than-human networks that encompass a landscape.
A visual artist who paints and draws onto discarded plastic bags, packaging and paper, and is exploring an intrinsic connection towards nature that we have lost.
A poet, writer, performer and musician working on tropical forests and land rights, oil extraction, biological diversity, patents on life, biofuels, climate change and much more.
An independent artist, teacher and researcher interested in place seen through the lens of Felix Guattari’s ecosophy, working extensively on ‘deep mapping’, other projects and publications.
A poet and critic interested in climate change, nonhuman representation and ecopoetics, whose debut poetry collection, ‘Significant Other’, addresses the effect of climate change on biodiversity.
A postgraduate student researching ecomusicology and ecospiritual music, and a singer and musician exploring ecological themes.
A writer and visual artist who has created several environmental poetry installations and collaborated on a dance–poem juxtaposing the natural world and the city in movement.
A visual artist working with people and places, whose individual and participatory practices generate practice-led research into the value of artful, embodied and place-based learning.
An interdisciplinary artist-curator, publisher and climate activist endeavouring to reveal creative patterns embodied within our symbiosis with places, environments, natural systems, and with each other.
A writer and filmmaker linking art forms to dialogue around climate issues, whose practice stretches back to theatre-making.
A textile and environmental artist working in a wide variety of settings and communities, in conversation with people and places, for installations, exhibitions and workshops.
A multi-disciplinary artist using plastic to create work highlighting its impact on the environment and the vast amounts of it created, used and discarded every day.
A poet, writer, performer and storyteller whose wild work, forged in the fantastical reaches of deep imagination, brings to life new stories for our strange times.
A multimedia artist creating work, installations and interventions, interested in mapping, walking, public space, sense of place, layers of history and the power of objects.
An artist, producer and researcher whose practice is embedded in long-term research and fieldwork, developing a body of work concerned with fear and isolation within society.
A freelance film and performance maker using documentary to bear witness to the unique stories of people and places, identity and landscape
A composer who, since an Arctic voyage ‘wake-up call’ with Cape Farewell, has written two operas relating to climate change and an orchestral work, Gaia Theory.
A former journalist, environment reporter and tv news editor who writes poetry about eco issues and was runner-up in the 2018 Ginkgo Poetry Prize.
An artist whose works are all, in some way, related to technology and our relation with it and wishes to expand notions of what is art.
A poet, short story writer and performer, and a fledgling singer-songwriter whose first song is an offshoot from her poetry commission from Weatherfronts 2016.
Author of two cli-fi novels, ‘Accidental Child’ (What if we run out of water?..) and ‘Providence’ (… or too much water, as in sea-level rise?).
An environmentalist and anti-capitalist writing fiction about climate change as inheritance in a classic Gothic setting.
A composer interested in ritual and collective expression as a way of responding to climate change, using poetry to connect the issues with the human condition.
An artist and PhD student using the life cycles and movements of moths to investigate how we can reconnect with the other-than-human through materials and making.
An artist whose immersive what-if storymaking games explore real-world issues through collaborative play to bring possible futures into clearer focus, and imagine positive action
An artist-researcher who develops interpretive and participatory positions within the community, contributes to eco-social actions, and creates interactive artworks to disseminate the community’s embodied knowledge.
An environmental artist making temporary works in the landscape as a way of re-connecting with life’s endless processes and essential unity and sharing this with others.
A poet, research student and sci-art practitioner, interested in practitioner-led discourse and new collaborations to take her Rachel Carson-focused work to events, festivals and conferences.
A composer, pianist and collaborator on keyboard conversations about climate change with economists, lawyers, scientists, artists and other thinkers across the world.
A visual artist exploring themes of childhood, place and belonging, whose participatory practice and responsive processes aim to help people think imaginatively with themselves and others.
An artist, social sculpture practitioner and educator/facilitator investigating relationships between humans and nature through a creative process that uses inspiration from mycelium to initiate dialogue
An abstract artist and painter whose work addresses the anoxic in relation to human responsibility and far-reaching ecological scenarios impacting the ocean.
A visual artist, writer and essayist whose work’s central question is what ecological recovery requires of us, faced with anthropogenic mass-extinction.
A writer, musician and photographer, with a regular column on climate change, whose novel, New Clone City (2018), features environmental themes in an urban setting.
An artist whose practice reconnects the human body with nature in the context of our synthetic tech-driven environments and deteriorating relationship with the natural environment.
An ecoscenographer, community artist, ethical textile accessories crafter, and body painter, with a strong interest in social and ecological conscious design.
A writer and book artist with a particular interest in the polar regions and water conservation.
A poet whose collections ‘The Farewell Glacier’ and ‘Out of Range’ explore the Arctic and climate change through human/non-human voices, and the impact of ‘Generation Anthropocene’.
A fiction and non-fiction writer and editor for the Dark Mountain network of writers, artists and thinkers who’ve stopped believing the stories our civilisation tells itself.
An artist using photography in its broadest sense – analogue and digital process, natural materials and camera-less methods of image making – to explore our relationship to nature.
A set and costume designer focusing on sustainability, heritage crafts and social history, and associate artist with Art Rise Up, a group merging art and activism.
A performance maker whose dance, music, ritual and writing deal with love, neglect of body, destruction of environment and atrophy of soul in consumerist society.
A writer linking the tradition of nature writing with the ecological crisis of our times, drawing on scientific, ecological, philosophical and spiritual sources and participatory perspectives.
A writer of fiction and non-fiction, focusing primarily on storytelling and eco-criticism to explore the complexities of nature in conflict with the human condition.
An artist and PhD candidate addressing the Anthropocene through art-based practice in contemporary painting and adopting an intimate, tactile, sensitive mode of painting everyday objects.
A bilingual writer and activist whose works include eco-disaster novel The Butterfly Effect and has worked with international NGOs and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
A visual artist interested in the relationship between humans and nature, how we perceive, romanticise and translate the landscape and our influence on the environment.
An academic and artist exploring global environmental change and provisionality in architectural thinking and practice, who convenes the Culture and Climate Change research and engagement framework.
A freelance writer, oral historian and community engagement worker now very much focused on writing about climate change in an accessible way, through comedy and documentary.
A writer exploring the world through short stories, novels, poetry and non-fiction, who sees climate change as potentially existential for fellow travellers on planet Earth.
An artist who uses photography in a search for illumination, playing out the metaphysical question of just how little light is required to dispel darkness.
A researching, collaborating, exhibiting artist and curator, using video, drawing, performance, sculpture and narrative that interweave fact and fiction to explore possible sustainable futures.
A writer, artist and educator, producing picture books, a novel and songs, with a background teaching and facilitating arts and sustainability with schools and communities.
A writer, editor, researcher and activist exploring the cultural shift required to live regeneratively and adapt well to the Anthropocene.
A writer and historian of science interested in how narrative can create a bridge between people who hold different values about climate change.
A poet, performer and artistbook maker focusing on the sea, its ecosystems and its interdependence with people, and the impacts of climate change and pollution.
A non-fiction writer and documentary maker inspired by dwelling, working and walking in the land and stories of the people who are a part of it.
An artist who co-creates spaces of naming, questioning, healing and desiring in dedication to humans and non-humans who experience intimately the violent consequences of our disconnect.
A researcher, film maker and festival manager creating strategies to deliver sustainability through the arts and research ways to disseminate education in an entertaining way.
A senior lecturer in Environmental Technologies (Open University), writer and performer of playful attempts at disrupting our relationship with climate change: science, psychology and surreal dance.
A poet, performer, educator and editor whose work engages a range of environmental issues including wildlife conservation and climate change.
An artist and producer with substantial experience of producing creative work about environmental change.
A researcher and writer on performance and ecology, investigating how one ‘hears’ enmeshed dimensions of the human and other-than-human and the sonic languages of place.
An artist whose practice explores post-Anthropocentric visions, resisting climate change and ecology becoming decontextualised and intangible by gathering up and recontextualising fragmented information.