Ian Gibbins is a widely published and exhibited poet, video artist and electronic musician living in South Australia. His video poetry and video art have been shown to acclaim at festivals and exhibitions around the world. His audio and video work has been commissioned for several high-visibility public art programs. He has published four collections of poetry, two in collaboration with artists, and all having themes based in science. Until he retired in 2014, Ian was an internationally recognised neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University, South Australia, having originally trained in zoology and pharmacology. He has worked widely with artists on a variety of projects that integrate art and science across dance, theatre, music, installations, and public lectures.

Margaret LeJeune is an image-maker, curator, and educator from Rochester, New York (USA). Working predominantly with photographic-based mediums, LeJeune explores our precarious relationship to the natural world. Her work has been widely exhibited at institutions around the world including The Griffin Museum of Photography (USA), The Center for Fine Art Photography (USA), ARC Gallery (USA), Circe Gallery Cape Town (South Africa), Science Cabin (South Korea), and Umbrella Arts (USA). LeJeune has been invited to create work at several residency programs which foster collaboration between the arts and sciences including the Global Nomadic Art Project - The Ephemeral River, University of Notre Dame Research Center, and University of Wisconsin - Madison Trout Lake Research Station. Her work was recently published in Culture, Community, and Climate: Conversations and Emergent Praxis from art.earth press in the UK. LeJeune currently serves as Associate Professor of Photography at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.

Hanien Conradie’s education includes degrees in both Architecture and Fine Arts. In 2012, she entered a 3-year period of post-graduate studies at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (UCT). She graduated (with distinction) with a Master of Fine Art (2015) focused on an enquiry based on ecology and painting. Conradie has since participated in numerous ecological exhibitions located in Southern Africa, Europe and the USA.

Conradie is an active contributor to interdisciplinary symposiums, websites and artists’ residencies where ecological research is conducted through creative practice. She, for example, delivered a paper at the Deleuze and Guattari Symposium, at the Global Nomadic Art Project’s Symposium (2016, Cape Town) and at the Liquidscapes Creative Summit (2018, Dartington Estate, UK). In 2018 she participated in The Ephemeral River, the UK portion of the Global Nomadic Art Project; a 7-year project that supports eco-artists to travel across continents to re-activate the public’s awareness and responsibility towards the biosphere.

Conradie’s first solo exhibition, Ntlhantle: In the Direction of Beauty, was held at the Linnaeus Gallery in Gaborone, Botswana (2018). This show explored the sacred sites of South-Eastern Botswana and was accompanied by a walk-about where a local African medicine doctor told the stories of these places. Her last solo exhibition, Raaswater (2019), formed part of theCubicle Series at the Circa Everard Read Gallery in Cape Town and included a series of discussions with indigenous knowledge expert, Colin Campbell, to explore the links between traditional rainmaking rites of Southern Africa and the creative process. In 2019 and 2020 Conradie participated in the Artscape Artists’ Residency in the Tankwa Karoo where she continued to explore human relationship with land through painting, performance and poetry. These works will be exhibited at her upcoming solo exhibition at the Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.