DR ROS GRAY
Ros is a writer and researcher who collaborates with artists, curators, scientists, growers, foragers and activists to explore the possibilities for ‘planetary rewilding’, which she understands as a mode of ecological engagement that involves long term, sensitive attention to particular places, more-than-human communities and marginalised histories and knowledges.
She has a particular interest in soil care and led the NERC Creative Climate Partnership ‘Sensing Soil’ with Dr Jacqueline Hannam and artist Harun Morrison in collaboration with Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network at the Art Research Garden at Goldsmiths.
In her writing, which is often collaborative and sometimes poetic, she investigates the enduring impacts of colonial botany, changes to seasons and life cycles resulting from climate change, and the possibilities of interdisciplinary artistic research that involves experimental practices to further planetary health.
She is interested in decolonial, eco-feminist, crip and queer ways of commoning ecological stewardship, food systems and rewilding. She has co-ordinated the Goldsmiths Allotment since 2015, which has been a space for students, staff and neighbours to develop practices of ecological care and well-being through gardening.