Laura Hopes: PORTALS

Dr Laura Hopes is an artist, writer, researcher and lecturer. Her research focuses upon the implicit relationship between climate change and colonisation, especially extractive or agricultural land practices. She is invested in the methodologies and ethics of friendship and vulnerability, seeing these as approachable models for relationships to place.

As part of the collective Still Moving and through collaboration with academics and experts in diverse fields, her expanded practice encompasses participation, film, performance and installation. She often brings others into her practice as participants, collaborators and experts, and works with heritage land practices, agricultural byproducts, environmental imbalances and industrial structures to question systems of earthly survival and engage people in ecological action.