/ 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 artistic practice with academic research 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 aesthetic walking practices, digital photography, and illustration to investigate space and place.
Using arts-based methods, 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 was the first artist participating in the new Research Residency programme at PADA Studios in Barreiro, Portugal in March/April 2025.
themes: aesthetic politics, art and environment, civil disobedience, climate activism, climate fiction, extraction and extractivism,feminist and intersectional urbanism, 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