Possessions, bodies and land in the Artic: Exploring the impacts of climate change on Inuit communities, as well as the sensitivities and challenges of showing work from the circumpolar region in the UK.
With Laakkuluk Williamson, Ros Gray, Rose Taylor, Taqralik Partridge and moderated by Kirsty Ogg.
This panel discussion is on occasion of Laakkuluk Willimson's solo show, Nuliamnik Neqilik, at Mimosa House.
Laakkuluk Williamson is an award-winning Greenlandic-Canadian Inuk artist whose practice spans performance, lens-based media, sculpture and installation. For her first ever solo show, Nuliaminik Neqilik brings together works that explore timely issues around access to and control over indigenous belongings, bodies and territories in the circumpolar region. It has involved significant international institutional partnerships including a loan from the National Gallery of Canada and the British Museum has facilitated access to some of the Inuit belongings currently held in their collection, reinterpretations of which also form part of the exhibition.
Contributors bio’s:
About Laakkuluk Williamson
An internationally acclaimed Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) artist, Laakkuluk Williamson is the recipient of the inaugural 2018 Kenojuaq Ashevak Memorial Award, the 2021 Sobey Art Award and the 2024 University of Calgary Alumni Award, amongst many others. She is a performance artist, poet, actor, curator, storyteller, and writer, widely recognized for her contemporary practice of uaajeerneq (Greenlandic mask dancing) and her collaborative approach to making art. Laakkuluk examines Inuit feminism, food systems, storytelling, climate change, humour, sexuality, language reclamation, Inuit sociopolitical circumstances, hidework and beading. Laakkuluk is a strong advocate for Inuit artists. She lives and works in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
About Ros Gray
Ros is Reader in the School of Art, Programme Director of the MA Art & Ecology and Co-Director of the Centre for Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research and teaching often involves collaborations with artists, scientists and activists, addressing ecological emergency with an emphasis on climate justice. Coming to ecology from a background researching militant filmmaking, she is interested in decolonial, eco-feminist and queer approaches to ecological stewardship. 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 2021-2022. Recent publications include essays in Frances Canon, ed., Queer Flora, Funga and Fauna: A Radical Forage Through Arts and Writing, Valiz (2026); Anthony Downey, ed. Nida Sinnokrot: Palestine Is Not a Garden. Berlin: Sternberg Press (2026); Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernandez Pascual (2026), eds. Cooking Sections: Waves Lost at Sea. Santander: Fundación Botín/Spector Books; and Adriano Pedrosa and Andre Mesquita (2025), eds. Historias da Ecologia: Antologia. São Paulo: Museo de Arte de São Paulo. Ros also co-commissions the Goldsmiths Press Planetarities book series.
About Rose Taylor
Dr Rose Taylor is Curator for the North America collections at the British Museum. An anthropologist and art historian, she specialises in Native North American art and material culture, with a particular focus on contemporary Indigenous art, California and Arctic regions. She recently curated the national touring exhibition, Arctic Expressions (2025 and 2027) and is completing a book on the Museum’s contemporary North America collection. Previously, she held research positions at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and a fellowship at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
About Taqralik Partridge
As an independent curator, Taqralik Partridge works closely with Inuit and other circumpolar Indigenous artists with an Inuit approach to community and family. She creates exhibitions for Inuit first, prioritising Inuit languages and creative practices. Taqralik Partridge has worked as the Associate Curator of Indigenous art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and adjunct curator at the Art Gallery of Guelph. She has co-curated exhibitions for the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Ottawa Art Gallery. Taqralik is the former Director of the Nordic Lab at SAW (Ottawa). Her visual work has travelled internationally, including to the 2020 Sydney Biennale and in the touring exhibitions Among All These Tundras (2020) and Radical Stitch. Her work was included in The Baroness at Mimosa House (2022). Taqralik was the first Inuit Editor-at-large for the Inuit Art Quarterly.