Latest
Guest (Performance) Lecture ‘Temporal Wanderings (with Dr. D. Sateesh). Part of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network seminar series: Phenomenal Time. November
Work selected for Photoworks publication Photography+. November issue
November: All day screening of Phyx at Exeter Phoenix. Durational film exploring overlapping themes of environmental and social justice through moving painting. https://exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/laura-denning-phyx/?fbclid=IwAR3SL1AiqnaaQ3km_iJGId8R2FYT4vHv8uWrtc-SyNrSAxBMZUT923cOzxs
Work included in Video Art and Experimental Film Event, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlandshttps://www.seafoundation.eu/vaefe-walk-in-cinema-screening-event-short-films-experimental-video-first-edition/
September: Co-leading CAMP Artists Walk with Mark Leahy and Kate Paxman, https://www.camp-plymouth.org/member-care-buckfastleigh/ in partnership with skylark.fm
September: In collaboration with Dr. Deepta Sateesh we presented at the Royal Geographical Society annual conference with a video work on the theme of Wet Ontologies, for the panel – ‘Ecopedagogies from the Intertidal Zone’, exploring parallels between the Erme Estuary (UK) and the Kundapura estuary in the state of Karnataka (India)
September: In collaboration with Dr. Deepta Sateesh – presented collaborative creative practice at ‘Multiple Ecologies, Diverse Ontologies: More Just, More Sustainable Futures, University of Plymouth https://morejustfutures.art/
September: Commission for Beastly Landscapes ‘We are all Beasts’ Moving Image piece for Newcastle University’s Centre for Research Excellence in Landscape
August: Erme Trace Overnight Residency: self-initiated artists gathering. Outcome: soundwork broadcast on https://www.soundartradio.org.uk/programmes/morningconnections/
Peer-reviewed Chapter in Special Issue of Geohumanities (Official Journal of the Association of American Geographers) June 2021 ‘Ecotone as Methodology – using our bodies as sensory data collectors – an introduction to the Interim project at Srishti Institute, Bangalore 2018.
Peer-reviewed illustrated poem in SFRA (Science Fiction Research Association Journal): ‘The Underside of Time’ Summer 2021
Film screened as part of Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics (Cappadocia University, Turkey): ‘The Underside of Time’ January 2021
Film screened as part of Temporal Belongings: The Material Life of Time (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Underside of Time’ March 2021
Joint presentation with Dr. Suzi Richer – Art + Anthropocene Virtual Seminar Series (University of York): ‘Sounds of Sampling’ March 2021
Previous Exhibitions/Installations/Productions
July 2020 | Commission for The Arts Institute, Plymouth University – ‘The Underside of Time’ moving image work responding to the theme ‘ Everything has changed. Nothing has changed. Change is coming’.
June 2020 | Recipient of COVID 19 Emergency Funding from Arts Council England, to develop digital and technical expertise to support the creation of short experimental moving image works.
Mar 2020 | Alumni show, Bath School of Art & Design
Sep | 2019 Go Rewild Yourself – participatory project for Plymouth Art Weekender
May-Jun 2019 | Rhyne & Huish exhibition of prints – ArtdotEarth, Dartington
Dec 2018 | Rangoli Arts Centre, Bangalore – performance
Sep 2018 | Hydrosapien Local Participation Commission – Plymouth Art Weekender
May 2018 | Canteen – Art Week Exeter
May 2017 | Primordial – group show curated by me, Fringe Arts Bath
Apr 2018 | BEAF – Bournemouth Emerging Arts Festival
Feb 2017 | Liquid II – group show curated by me, Arts Quarter Budapest
Nov 2016 | The Underheard, sound installation – Sanctum, Bristol
Oct 2016 | Art Language Location – Cambridge
Oct 2016 | Sonic works broadcast on Radio Revolten International Radio Art Festival – Halle, Germany
Sep 2016 | Cremyll Ferry Sound Piece & Aquatic Traffic production, Plymouth Art Weekender
Sep 2016 | Multi-screening for Place, Ecology & the Digital, DRHA, University of Brighton
Aug 2016 | Hot Water screened as part of The Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Korea
Jun 2016 | Liquid – group show curated by me, Fringe Arts Bath
May 2016 | Submersive Testimony – Media Wall, Bath Spa University
Aug 2015 | Raw Catalyst – Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Residencies
Nov 2019 | Art-Science hothouse residency: hosted by art.earth, CCANW and Science Walden
Nov 2018 | Srishti School of Art & Design, Bangalore
Jul 2018 | Concordia University, Montreal. Funded by GALA network.
Jun 2018 | Global Nomadic Art Project at Schumacher College, UK. ‘The Ephemeral River’
Mar 2018 | Porthleven Prize, residency with BSAD
Publications
Creative Practice featured in ‘Culture, Community, Climate’ art.earth 2020
Chapter in Monsoon Waters – University of Westminster 2019
Book Review ‘Routledge handbook of gender and environment’ Green Letters, Taylor & Francis 2019
Chapter in ‘Imagining Islands: Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago’ Co-authored (with Prof. Owain Jones) Routledge 2018
Creative Practice featured in Yatoo GNAP publications (Korea) Water (2016) Wind (2018)
Creative Practice featured in ‘Ephemeral River’ art.earth (GNAP 2018)
Book Review: ‘Tree’ in Green Letters, Taylor & Francis 2018
Forthcoming Publications
Chapter in ‘Rethinking Creativity in the Era of Ecocide. Embodiment, Performance and Practice’ Emerald Publishing 2021
Chapter in Special Issue of Geohumanities (Official Journal of the Association of American Geographers) 2021
Chapter in EnCOUnTErs (ecoacoustics and the more-than-human) ACE funded publication 2021
Qualifications
PGDip – Teaching/Learning in HE, University of Plymouth 2000
MA Social History of Art, University of Leeds 1990
BA (hons) Fine Art 2:1, Manchester Metropolitan University 1989
Memberships
A-N (Artists Information Company) 2016 – ongoing
RGS IBS (Royal Geographical Society) 2018 – ongoing
CAMP (Contemporary Arts Membership Plymouth) 2019 – ongoing
AAG (Association of American Geographers) 2019-2020
ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) 2019-2020
Awards
Tagore International Film Festival | Outstanding Achievement Awards in 4 categories: Debut Film-maker, Films on Disability, Short Films, Women’s Films, for Manual for Nomads. April 2020
Arts Council England | Developing Your Creative Practice Award – £10k, July 2019
Access Space Residency | Shortlisted 300 > 8, 2019
Jerwood Arts Bursaries 2019 | Shortlisted
AN Bursaries | Recipient of the Artists Development Awards (£1500), 2019
Exeter University | Arts & Culture Commissions – Shortlisted 100 > 3, 2019
Gala (Global Academy of Liberal Arts): University of Udine, Italy April 2017 | Eco- Sustainable Narratives and Environmental Concerns
Creative Commissions: Mobility Variations, Centre for GeoHumanities, Royal Holloway University and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility with the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padova. Shortlisted (with Beth Cullen, University of Westminster), May 2019
Gala (Global Academy of Liberal Arts): Selected participant for summer school at the University of Utrecht with Rosi Braidotti: Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene August 2017
Gala (Global Academy of Liberal Arts): Fleuve collaborating with Eric Powell of Concordia University Montreal, on a project which explores the social and environmental ecologies of the St. Lawrence River(CA) and the River Severn (UK) Our first site visit was July 2018, the second was February 2019.
Srishti Institute, Bangalore 2018 – selected for fully funded Interim residency
Visual Arts Plymouth – Local Participation Commission £3k for Hydrosapien, 2018
Arts Council England – £10k project funding for Hydrosapien, 2018
Bath Spa Environmental Humanities Research Grant – towards Rhyne & Huish walkshops, 2018
Bath Spa Postgraduate Award – towards attendance at various international conferences 2017-2019
Harbutt Fund – for development of sound work for Rhyne & Huish, 2017
Selected Participant in the CREST Summer School, Wellcome Institute, London (Leadership and Research Collaboration) September 2017
Porthleven Prize – one of 14 artists selected for fully funded residency, 2018
Plymouth City Council – 50% funding for Benthic Caress, 2017
KTH Seedbox Linkoping University – for attendance at International workshop on Writing the Environmental Humanities (Undisciplined Discipline), 2017
Bath Spa University – inaugural recipient of the PhD Studentship in Environmental Humanities (Fee Waiver), 2016
Conference Papers Delivered
2019
Guest Lecture, Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol, January
AAG Washington DC, April
Environmental Arts Practice Research conference, University of Plymouth, April
EUGEO Annual Conference, Galway, May
Nordic Geographers Conference, Trondheim, June
Art in the age of the Anthropocene and Ecocide, Bath Spa University, June
Flows of Entanglement, ASLE, University of Plymouth, September
2018
Seeing Sound: Practice-Led Research Symposium, Bath Spa University, March
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference, Royal Holloway University London, April
Monsoon Waters, University of Westminster, April
Marine Transgressions, Bristol, June
Liquidscapes, Dartington, June
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, August
The role of the arts and creative practice in addressing critical global challenges. UWE, October
2017
Feminist Approaches to a Changing Climate AAG, AGM, Boston, April
Future Imperfect – sound, cinema and the moving image. Plymouth University, April
Contributor: LIVING TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH University of Udine, Italy, April
Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene – Bath Spa University, April
In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language, Schumacher College, June
Mediating Climate Change international, multidisciplinary conference, Leeds University, July
Sound + Environment 2017 Art | Science | Listening | Collaboration University of Hull, July
Association of Commonwealth Universities Summer School – Bath Spa University, August
University of Utrecht with Rosi Braidotti: Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene, August
Selected Participant CREST, Wellcome Institute, (Leadership and Research Collaboration), September
Beyond Nature/Artifice, III INSULA International Colloquium, Universidade da Madeira, November
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