In the summer, the PLACE Collective put out a call for Creative Collaborative Placements with the LUNZ Hub, across the UK. There was a huge response and an extremely high calibre of applications – wow, there are so many brilliant artists out there – but after a long and thoughtful selection and interview process decisions were made.
We are delighted to announce the three new placements in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the ongoing work in England.
In England, multi-media artist Daksha Patel is liaising with the Rothamsted Institute. The focus is supporting agroecosystem transitions in the context of a changing world.
In Northern Ireland, poet Kate Arthur, linking with AFBI (AgriFood and Biosciences Institute), will be enquiring into Livestock, Land and Livelihoods.
In Wales, printmaker and artist Jacqui Symons is working with CEH (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) to begin work considering ‘Patchwork’: connecting the smaller scale of landscape change to the bigger national ambition.
In Scotland, working with inspiration from the James Hutton Institute, artist duo Becky Little and Tom Morton (Rebearth / Arc) are exploring The earth beneath our feet: understanding, regenerating, connecting.
We’ll be introducing each artist and their project focus in new blogs next week. And they will be contributing blogs as they share their processes. The next six months are going to be exciting – research, conversations, fieldwork, workshops and new learning about an integrated approach to enquiry, practice and connection. Watch this space for news.
Creative Collaborative Placements: background
How might an artist offer novel lenses through which to consider land use change?
How might an artist working with other specialists take dialogues in new directions?
How might an artist’s work influence discussions and actions around relationships to land, and processes of change?
What might an artist notice that others do not?
The Creative Collaborative Placements programme brings artists together with specialists from the LUNZ (Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People) Hub, a UK-wide consortium that has been set up to help drive the transformation of UK land use that’s needed to achieve net zero by 2050.
The programme gives a framework for artists to be in dialogue with specialists from research, practice and policy, and to develop work in response to a specified topic in the context of land use and change. The work will be responsive to a process of collaboration, knowledge exchange, fieldwork and discussion.
The artists will be sharing their final work in May 2026.