/ interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and writer
I am an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and writer born in Montréal, Canada and based in Oslo, Norway. I lead the Institute for Art & Environment, an independent research platform conducting projects with environmental, social, and urban themes.
I blend academic research with artistic practice and am broadly concerned with how environmental crisis can be understood through art. With a background in geography, my work is highly site-specific. I primarily use digital photography, illustration, and aesthetic walking practices to investigate space and place. I have explored diverse themes in my academic work, from graffiti to climate activism, and have published widely in international journals and edited books.
My current work examines themes of extraction and extractivism in industrial and post-industrial landscapes. I am especially interested in waste and the lasting environmental impacts of mining.
I was one of the artists selected for the Velferden Winter Residency in Sokndal, Norway in January/February 2025 and am one of the first artists selected for the new Research Residency at PADA Studios in Barreiro, Portugal where I will be based in March/April 2025.
themes: aesthetic politics, art and environment, civil disobedience, climate activism, climate fiction, feminist and intersectional urbanism, extraction and extractivism, the future city, graffiti and street art, outdoor advertising, speculative and future art
methods: artistic activism, arts-based methods, book clubbing, creative action research, embodied walking, policy analysis, psychogeography, urban photography, visual urban ethnography
media: digital photography, illustration and painting using water-based media on paper