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UCL Anthropocene brings together researchers from across disciplines to articulate and address the problems that the Anthropocene poses for our collective future.
The images below feature artworks made by UCL artists engaging with the Anthropocene. Click on the artist for further information.

Fiona Curran, The Grass Seemed Darker Than Ever (detail), 2016. Commissioned by Kielder Art and Architecture for Kielder Forest, Northumberland.

Simon Faithfull, Still from: 'Re-enactment for a Future Scenario #2: Cape Romano', 2019, HD video, 6min loop.

Rhona Eve Clews, If I eat you, will we both still be OK? (Plant), from the series Odes (PART OF A LARGER QUEST), 2019, multi-screen video installation, Slade School of Fine Art MA/MFA Degree show. Documentation by Holly Buckle.

Eleanor Morgan, Spider Spinning Machine 1810, 2008, etching.

Kat Austen, Coral Empathy Device, 2017, CC-BY-SA 4.0. Video documentation: https://www.katausten.com/portfolio/the-coral-empathy-device/.

Henrietta Simson, Sketch for the Anthropocene, 2015, 21 x 29 cm, collage on graph paper.

Christina Della Giustina, You Are Variations, Version 01 and 02 - Visp vs Vordemwald, audio-video installation, ca. 2 x (12 x 4 x 4 m), Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, CH, December 2011. Video documentation: https://vimeo.com/313811835; https://vimeo.com/265145196.

Hermione Spriggs and Laura Cooper, Concert of a Lure, 2017.

Onya McCausland, sixbells_ScreenShot_1 Six Bells Mine Water Treatment Scheme 51°43 33.56 N 3°07 58.63 W 847m.

Nick Laessing, Plant Orbiter, 2017.

Ram Shergill, Anthropogenic Echinoidea Sympoiesis, 2019, Chromogenic Print, Leica Gallery Los Angeles in collaboration with Jack Irving and Daen Palma Huse.