Wild Imagination

Mirella Salamé is an earth tender & earth channeler. she communes with the physical and the non-physical in both her healing practices and her artwork.

Lucy Mayes is an artist and pigment maker. Her work uses urban waste stream materials to make recycled pigment as a way of narrating a modern lived experience.

Leya Tess is an interdisciplinary artist who swims out between the islands of Art/Science and East/West.

Anna Selby is a writer and naturalist. Her chapbook Field Notes was a bestseller for two years running with the LRB Bookshop, was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and was an Irish Times Book of the Year.

Hanna Tuulikki is a British-Finnish artist, composer and performer based in Scotland. Her multi-disciplinary projects investigate the ways in which the body communicates beyond and before words, to tell stories through imitation, vocalisation and gesture.

Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector, award winning promoter, broadcaster and activist

Traced by Jewish and Mexican lineages of the Northern Sonoran desert, Jiordi is fluent in nonsense and loves the interspecies gossip of rural communities.

Julie Brook studied art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1989 Julie Brook has been living and working in remote landscapes in Scotland; Hoy, Orkne ; the west coast of Jura; on the uninhabited island of Mingulay, Outer Hebrides.

Hannah Close is a writer, photographer and cultural curator working with islands and oceans.

Charlotte Du Cann is a writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. She teaches collaborative non-fiction and radical kinship with the other-than-human world.

Ruth Allen PhD is a psychotherapist, writer, trainer and facilitator. Originally trained as a geologist, with a doctorate in Himalayan mountain-building, she now specialises in movement and nature-based practice, nature connection and relational embodiment.