Saturday 15th November- 16:00–18:00
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Part of London Gallery Weekend and hosted by Gallery Climate Coalition
As the climate talks unfold in Brazil, join in an intimate conversation, ‘Art for a Climate Changed World’, with artist, activist, and creative strategist Suzanne Dhaliwal and Dr. Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, scholar and pleasure activist.
Their conversation will explore what an expanded sense of art might look like in response to the climate crisis. With culture on the COP30 agenda for the first time, this conversation is especially urgent: Ama and Suzanne will reflect on how creative practice can move us beyond representation and instrumentalism in resistance, reframing art as a space to reimagine justice, land, and belonging amid ecological collapse.
Suzanne Dhaliwal is an artist, writer, and cultural strategist whose work bridges art, ecology, and climate justice discourse. With a background in climate justice and philosophy, Dhaliwal brings a critical, reflective lens to environmental narratives, using art to challenge dominant paradigms and inspire new cultural responses to ecological crises. Voted one of London's most influential people in Environment 2018 by the Evening Standard. In 2009 she co-founded the UK Tar Sands Network, which challenged BP and Shell investments in the Canadian tar sands in solidarity with frontline Indigenous communities, spurring the internationalisation of the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Dr. Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone is an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London, an MFA tutor at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and a Research Associate at VIAD (University of Johannesburg). Ama’s writing has been commissioned and published widely, and shortlisted for several prizes and awards, and she has exhibited artist moving image and installation work across Europe. She was recently awarded a PhD from Birkbeck University of London.
This event is hosted at Mimosa House. The exhibition on display includes sexually explicit content and strong language. Attendees will be required to remove their shoes or wear shoe coverings due to the exhibition extending to the floor. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact events@galleryclimatecoaltion.org