Centre for Art and Ecology Members
Meet the members, researchers and academics involved in the Centre for Art and Ecology
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Director: Dr Ros Gray
Ros is a writer and researcher who collaborates with artists, curators, scientists, growers, foragers and activists to explore the possibilities for ‘planetary rewilding’, which she understands as a mode of ecological engagement that involves long term, sensitive attention to particular places, more-than-human communities and marginalised histories and knowledges.
She has a particular interest in soil care and led the NERC Creative Climate Partnership ‘Sensing Soil’ with Dr Jacqueline Hannam and artist Harun Morrison in collaboration with Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network at the Art Research Garden at Goldsmiths.
Director: Dr Anna Colin
Anna is a curator whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses the pedagogical, the social, the ecological and the horticultural.
Alongside her collaborative curatorial projects, which increasingly engage placing art at the service of human and non-human ecosystems and the creation and care for biodiverse environments, Anna has been training in horticulture, permaculture design and arboriculture, and volunteering on small-scale agroecological farms.
Goldsmiths members
- Claire Baily
- Dr Laura Cuch
- Dr Michael Guggenheim
- Dr Kuldip Kaur
- Dr Wood Roberdeau
- Dr Sophie Seita
- Dr Jol Thoms
- Dr Becca Voelcker
- Dr Lenka Vrablikova
- Rehana Zaman
External members
- Dr Julie Freeman, Artist
- Dr Jacqueline Hannam, Cranfield Environment Centre, Cranfield University, President of the British Soil Scientists Association
- Harun Morrison, Artist
- Anna Santamauro, Curator, Arts Catalyst and Senior Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University
- Melissa Thompson, Artist and Senior Lecturer, Open University; co-founder of the Roving Microscope
Advisory Board
- Dr Nirmal Puwar
- Professor Susan Schuppli
- Professor Mark Nesbitt, Director of Research, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Professor Maria Puig della Bellacasa, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Associate Professor Nida Sinnokrot, MIT and co-founder Sakiya: Art | Science | Agriculture