Artist bio: Ackroyd & Harvey

Multi award winning artist duo Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey are internationally acclaimed for creating multi-disciplinary works that intersect art, activism, architecture, biology, ecology and history.

Referencing memory and time, nature and culture, urban political ecologies, climate emergency and degradation of the living planet, their time-based practice reveals an intrinsic bias towards process and event.  Processes of germination, growth and decay (organic and inorganic), erosion and deposition, feature in artworks that often evolve through extended research in response to people and place, interfacing their profound interest in local ecologies and planetary concerns with socio-political paradigms.  In 2019, the artists co-founded Culture Declares Emergency in response to the climate and ecological emergency.