Our Project Team
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Matt Fratson
I’m an interdisciplinary artist, qualified teacher & producer with 10+ years experience delivering learning programmes for KS4 through to Postgraduate study & diverse community outreach.
Across my work I utilise archival material, artefacts, and creative technologies in a continuous examination of memory, and patterns of transformation across earth sciences. Practical exchanges with experimental archaeologists, material culture specialists and ecologists is key to my work, pivoting around fragments, and fragmentation.
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Thomas Robinson
I’m Thomas Robinson, I’m an artist and I work as The Aimless Archive. I generate starting points for conversation and new work, build archives to respond to and reflect upon, and I evaluate collected material.
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Ruby Deverell
Ruby Deverell is a photographer based in the North of England, specialising in analog film. Working with film is a fundamental part of her creative process. Water is a recurring theme in her work, and she is driven by a passion for exploring and capturing new places.
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Alexander Stubbs
Alexander Stubbs is a writer and curator based in Hull. Working primarily in text-based practice, his writing explores the world through imaginary landscapes in order to deconstruct and decode memory, grief, and language.
Alexander has a particular interest in community-building practices, and shared and embodied knowledge through collaboration. He has worked with artist-led organisations to deliver workshops, reading groups, and mentoring to a wide range of groups, and regularly works in collaboration with other artists.
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Joe Foster
Joe Foster is a visual artist from Hull, East Yorkshire. Joe uses mark making with natural materials to explore our connection and relationship with the natural world.
Joe likes to use processes through which he doesn’t know the outcome - challenging our perception of control and exploring our role in seemingly spontaneous events.
Joe has 2 side projects: Post-Person - exploring workplace politics through his experience working for the Royal Mail - and Ever Green Studio - learning about plant life and creating ceramic plant pots inspired by nature.
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Fiona Caley
Fiona lived on a farm on the edge of the Holderness Plains, watching the cliffs erode every year. She still lives by the sea, however now she is behind sea defences. The landscape has informed her practise and focus. Fiona’s main medium is photography, though mixed media and creative writing play a large part in her image based work too. Working with groups is a joy for Fiona, sharing her belief in the possibilities creativity has to capture, restore and resolve life’s experiences.
OUR SUPPORTERS
Virtual Ecologies is made possible with the support of Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants, and the generosity of our incredible project partners. We’d like to extend our heartfelt thanks to:
Absolutely Cultured & Humber Street Gallery
Simone Kuhn and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Aristotle Roufanis (Worksofar)
Anna Gilchrist (University of Manchester)
Joe Glentworth (Sheffield Hallam University)
David Sheard (York St John University)
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Rewilding Youth CIC
Barnardo’s East Yorkshire
Alzheimer’s Society East Riding
Hull Libraries
East Riding Museums
East Riding Federation of Young Farmers Clubs
Farming Community Network North
Thrive Co-Operative Learning Trust
Holderness Academy
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds