Laura Donkers

I am a practicing eco-social, multi-media artist whose work is rooted in the idea of co-creativity, working interactively with communities and environments. I conduct place-based research to read and respond to the environment in collaboration with human-and-nonhuman makers, as embodied ways of knowing place. A slow method of understanding landscape, place and environment emerges that brings poetic insights on nature, culture and ethics. I have been based for over 30 years in the Outer Hebrides, UK, as a horticulturalist, artist and researcher, and completed a Practice-led PhD in Contemporary Art Practices at the University of Dundee. This work explored collaborative artistic co-creative methods to strategically promote eco-social regeneration for small island communities. I continue to develop creative and collaborative methodologies within ecological and human communities to connect the public with environmental and climate change matters, while expanding artist's agency and impact on society at this time of ecological crisis. Outer Hebrides, UK