Anna Souter
Anna Souter is an independent writer, editor and curator based in London, with an interest in the intersection between contemporary art and the environment. Anna’s writing spans fiction and non-fiction, drawing on tropes from academia, memoir, poetry and science writing. She also works on exhibitions about art and ecology.
Contributions
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FeaturesThe Wild Inside Us
If we want to help nature to restore itself, we need to start looking at our borders through the eyes of our ecosystems.
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FeaturesNuclear plants
Plants have an extraordinary ability to grow and adapt in even the most hostile environments.
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FeaturesEntangled Lives
Our lives are inextricably entangled with the lives of other species. Artists and creatives are attempting to recognise this through reciprocal gestures towards nonhumans.
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FeaturesMelting Eternity
The ice of the polar regions was once seen as a symbol of eternity and stasis. Today, as works by contemporary artists reveal, it has become a powerful metaphor for the changing climate.
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EssaysThe Beautiful Horror of Plants
How plants have embodied the uncanny in art, literature and film.
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PhotographyIn (our) nature
Tamara Dean’s beautifully composed photographs pull viewers into fantastical and instinctual worlds. She presents human beings immersed in ecosystems, as mammals threatened by environmental...
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FeaturesThe Grammar of Being
How our use of language can define our relationship with the natural world.
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FeaturesBathed in Light
The healing properties of the sun, thought to be a cure for tuberculosis, influenced Modernist medicine, literature and architecture.
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EssaysRooted Beings
An exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection explores the relationship between human bodies, plants, and planetary health.
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FeaturesThe Sámi Narrative
Sámi people have an ancient reciprocal relationship with reindeer and the landscapes of the European Arctic. Against the backdrop of a warming world, their way of life is under threat.
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FeaturesWild Arrows
An ongoing series of films combines Indigenous knowledge with western scientific and philosophical perspectives to show the wonder of the interconnected world.
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FeaturesMake Me Good Soil
Writer Sophie Strand discusses the myth of the healthy self and why she advocates a view of mind and body as part of a broader web of relations with the world around us.
— Issue #15
