Adapt Transform

Alexander Stavrou

Alexander Stavrou is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is centred around thinking-through-making. He plays among and between painting, object making, installation, sound, digital film, writing and performance. Recent investigations meditate on growing up around the transformative world of a cobbler’s workshop where you can still find his father edging the sole back from the toe with his thumbs, heel clamped between his left arm and midriff, considering how best to re-join each part. He holds an MFA from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford which was funded by a studentship in the Humanities.

Ash Goller

Ash Goller records fragments of their everyday life using a mixed media approach of found materials and paints, partially using cardboard as a canvas. Originally starting as a way to reuse materials and have a cheaper process as a student with limited funds, collaborating with Green Arts Oxfordshire Network they’ve been able to expand their knowledge of sustainable practice and create the swap shop to help other artists be more environmentally friendly in their practice and open it up to be more accessible for others financially.

Atkins Urban Nature Lab

Atkins Urban Nature Lab is a diverse group of environmental scientists, engineers and consultants working in Oxford City Centre on projects to plan, design and deliver nature-based solutions that might help combat change, population growth and urban expansion. They regularly use the Lego model to engage with schools at a variety of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) events as well as at natured-based environmental management conferences. The original model was the brain-child of the then Graduate Civil Engineer Tom Kendal and was built by a number of volunteers over a one-month period within the Atkins Oxford office.

David Gasca

David Gasca is an environmental scientist and artist. He uses a range of different media from photography, video, mapping, sculpture, printing and painting to investigate the relationships between people, environment and place. By often favouring a birds eye perspective, his investigations changes and patterns in the urban and rural landscape. For the Oxford Map of Trees, he is using laser altimetry data for the city to provide a classic map view of the current urban treescape in Oxford. By considering where trees are now, what patterns exist and how different features are linked we can identify where and how we need to act to expand the network of trees across the city.

Deborah Pill

Deborah Pill is an Oxford based contemporary artist and arts practitioner. Pill’s practice is largely self-reflective and emotive, drawing on her life experiences. Her practice is interdisciplinary, and she works with a variety of reclaimed materials with a universal meaning to express her thoughts and ideas. Recently, she has explored the concept of the home, questioning whether it’s a place or a person; somewhere that can provide a feeling of comfort or safety; or a place where our voice is heard.

Green Arts Oxfordshire Network

Green Arts Oxfordshire Network exists to unite Oxfordshire's artists and cultural organisations in their work to tackle the climate and ecological emergency. GAON facilitates conversations and connections between Oxford's creative community, and signposts to information, suppliers and organisations that can help to reduce the environmental impact of arts programming and practices.

Jan-Hendrik Höhnk

Jan-Hendrik Höhnk is a graduate student in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford. Originally from Germany, Jan studied architecture in different corners of the world. Over the years, he found a passion and interest for social interaction in public space, which guides his architecture and research.

Jimi Cullen

Jimi Cullen is a customer service worker using a camera to have fun, investigating the beauty in the natural and human worlds at all scales, and inviting you to have a look.

Katrin Wilhelm and Sterling Mackinnon

Dr Katrin Wilhelm is a stonemason turned heritage scientist and geographer. She operates in the notoriously interdisciplinary field of Heritage Science which creates unique and innovative synergies otherwise impossible. Her expertise covers the digital, human, physical, and cultural geography as well as environmental sciences and human & non-human well-being.

Dr Sterling MacKinnon is a cultural geographer and sound artist whose research concerns the use of digital visualisation technologies in the heritage sciences. His artistic practice is primarily centred around both field recording and the translation of a wide range of data into sonic information.

Makespace

Makespace Oxford is a social enterprise that transforms Oxfordshire's empty and underused buildings into affordable, community-driven workspaces. Their mission is to make space for sustainability, creativity and community in the UK’s least affordable city; supporting social enterprises, charities and creative makers committed to positive social and environmental change.

Mark James

Mark James B, aka Markthestars, is an ecologically minded multidisciplinary artist interested in everything under (and around and within) the sun. He has designed and built a few marine craft, including a proa canoe, a flat pack canvas-clad punt and a full size 10 metre sailing yacht and rig with a dodecahedral hull form. He writes the occasional poem.

Muesli Collective

Muesli is a collective of three artists (Louis Darcel, Hannah De Corte and João Freitas). Together, they make "unruly paintings" with hypersensitive materials that react to and reflect the environment they inhabit.

Nor Greenhalgh

Nor Greenhalgh is an Oxford-based public artist and community worker. She has an interest in the history, design and politics of the public realm, particularly in relation to progressive urban design schemes such as increased space for walking and cycling. Previous commissions have generated proposals for ecologically appropriate new vernacular materials, ideas for reclaiming local parking spaces, and placemaking murals for public spaces.

Thomas Nicolaou

Thomas Nicolaou is a British, Oxford based artist, graphic designer, and tutor. Thomas studied printing, publishing, and graphic design and worked for a number of years in publishing. In 2016, he graduated from the MA Photographic Studies course at the University of Westminster. His first London solo exhibition was at the Hellenic Centre, London, 2017. His first short film ‘Drinking Ceausescu’s Wine’ was selected and shown as part of the BF Artist Film festival 2019 and OPEN20 Moving Image showcase for Brighton Photofringe 2020.