Details
| First Name | Laura |
| Last Name | Donkers |
| Username | lauradonkers |
| Region | Western Isles |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Film, Installation, Sound |
| Themes | Botanical, Environment, Identity, Landscape, Site-specific, Narratives |
Statement
| Statement | My multi-faceted practice engages with human/nonhuman thresholds. This process develops intuitively over time spent in quiet observation and contemplation of the correspondences lying between environment, matter, culture and making. Finished works take the form of drawings, film poems, digital recordings and public interventions. At a time of human caused climate and nature crises, I use my practice to explore how social innovations, colonialism and capitalism impact human and nonhuman communities. As a socially engaged ecological artist, I believe that art can significantly affect how we perceive the living environment, and that perceptions can be changed through social interactions and creative encounters ‘in nature’.
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Biography
| Biography | Laura Donkers is a British/Irish multi-media artist-curator and independent researcher. Her work mediates complex ideas associated with contemporary, historical and cultural readings of place through a variety of methods, strategies and processes. She employs field-based research, interdisciplinary collaboration and socially engaged activism to explore the interconnections between nature and culture. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Art Practice (DJCAD Dundee, 2020), MA in Art and Social Practice (Distinction) (UHI Shetland, 2023), MFA in Art, Society, Publics (DJCAD Dundee, 2014) and BFA Hons in Fine Art (First Class) (UHI Outer Hebrides, 2011). Her Practice-led PhD research explored collaborative artistic co-creative methods to strategically promote eco-social regeneration for small island communities. It was awarded an SGSAH/AHRC scholarship and included additional awards to undertake comparative research visits to Elam School of Art, University of Auckland. She transformed this research into the creative agency LimenLab, which delivers eco-art projects that document and promote exchange between people and nature at a time of biodiversity loss and climate change. She exhibits her work widely in Scotland, Europe and internationally. She lives and works on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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