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 | Through my multi-faceted practice, I explore the intricate thresholds between human and nonhuman experiences. In quiet contemplation, I attune human embodiment to the ecology that surrounds us, revealing the connections between environment, matter, culture and creation. At a time of human caused climate and nature crises, my work combines social interaction and creative engagement to investigate impacts of colonialism/capitalism on human and nonhuman communities to explore whether social innovations address or exacerbate systemic social and environmental issues. My finished works, ranging from drawings and film poems to digital recordings and public interventions invite engagement with these correspondences on a deeper level.
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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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