Andy Goldsworthy OBE is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. The materials used in Goldsworthy’s art often include brightly coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. In contrast to other artists who work with the land, most of Goldsworthy’s works are small in scale and temporary in their installation. For these ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials.

His work has made him one of the most respected and admired land artists in the world, using his art to remind the audience of the beauty and fragility of nature.

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Three River Works – Andy Goldsworthy

Imbued with an appearance of scientific rationality, Conrad Shawcross’s sculptures explore subjects that lie on the borders of geometry and philosophy, physics and metaphysics. Attracted by failed quests for knowledge in the past, he often appropriates redundant theories and methodologies to create ambitious structural and mechanical montages, using a wide variety of materials and media, and often working on an epic scale.

Different technologies and natural forces inspire his forms, but his mysterious machines and structures remain enigmatic, filled with paradox and wonder. Some have an absurdist melancholy feel, while others tend to the sublime.

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Within the plane of the Elliptic – Conrad Shawcross RA

David Nash studied at Kingston College of Art from 1963 to 1967 and at Chelsea School of Art (Postgraduate) from 1969 to 1970. Nash’s first solo exhibitions were held in 1973 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, York and at Oriel, Bangor, Wales. These rapidly led to a series of solo exhibitions throughout the UK and his international reputation was established after his first solo shows overseas were held in 1980 at Elise Meyer Gallery, New York and at Galleria Cavallino, Venice, Italy. Since then, he has continued to hold solo shows on an annual basis throughout the world.

Nash’s work has also been included in numerous international key group exhibitions since 1970. These include The Condition of Sculpture, at the Hayward Gallery, London (1975), British Art Now: An American Perspective, at the Soloman R Guggenheim Museum, New York and tour (1980), British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Part II, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1981) and Aspects of British Art Today, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in (1982).

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Faraway Trees 2024 – David Nash

Eleanor Lakelin’s sculpture gives shape to an encounter between deep time scales of cultural form and organic matter. Her vessels introduce memory and feeling to the bacterial life-worlds a tree hosts long after it has been felled.

Lakelin’s work is exhibited internationally and is part of private and public collections, including the V&A – Victoria & Albert Museum, London; MAD – Museum of Arts & Design, New York; the Museum of London, The National Museum, Norway and the LOEWE Foundation, Madrid.

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Pine Studies #1 – Eleanor Lakelin

Emily Young is considered one of the most successful sculptors working in Britain and she has been often called Britain’s greatest living stone sculptor. Because of the powerful nature of her pieces, Young became known as a mediator between humanity and nature in its most primitive, basic forms.

The primary objective of her sculpture brings the relationship of humankind and the planet into closer conjunction. The natural beauty, history and energy of material stone, including its capacity to embody human consciousness, can endure into the future of a vast unknowable universe.

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The Connection – A Meeting of Minds 2023 – Emily Young

A creator of various styles of Land Art, John is ever in search of “different.” With 1 million followers on Social Media, his work is popular and powerful. Be it with stones or leaves, inland or on beaches. He has even created works in derelict environments using materials such as broken glass or ashes and general debris.

The scale of his work varies massively; he may use stones or driftwood to make something small and minimal. Otherwise he may be seen drawing massive scale sand drawings up to 100 metres across. His work is ephemeral in many differing ways; Most often the weather and immediate climate will make his work disappear (be blown down/washed away by the tide), and sometimes other people will interfere.

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Stone Moon – Jon Foreman

Julian Stair is one of the UK’s leading potters. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and the RCA. He has exhibited internationally since 1982 and has work in over 30 public collections including the V&A Museum, British Museum, American Museum of Art & Design, New York and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Recent solo exhibitions include Art, Death and the Afterlife, (Sainsbury Centre, Norwich 2023).

He is a leading historian of English studio ceramics. He completed a PhD at the RCA in 2002 researching the critical origins of English studio pottery and has written extensively. Julian’s essays have been published by Routledge, Bloomsbury, the Courtauld Institute, Tate Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. He was awarded an OBE in 2022 for his services to ceramics.

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Ossuaries – Julian Stair

Michael Pinsky is a British artist whose international projects challenge the status quo on climate change, urban design and societal wellbeing. He explores issues which shape and influence the use of our public realm to create ambitious and provocative installations in galleries and public spaces. Taking the combined roles of artist, urban planner, activist, researcher and resident, he starts residencies and commissions by working with local people and resources, allowing the physical, social and political environment to define his working methodology.

His work has been shown at: TATE Britain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu; Saatchi Gallery; Victoria and Albert Museum and at La Villette, Paris. His recent installation Pollution Pods is touring internationally and has been exhibited in London, COP 26, IUN Climate Change Summit, New York,  Melbourne & COP28.

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Mammoth 2024 – Michael Pinsky

During the past 40 years Peter Randall-Page has gained an international reputation through his sculpture, drawings and prints. He has undertaken numerous large-scale commissions and exhibited widely. His work is held in public and private collections throughout the world including Japan, South Korea, Australia, USA, Turkey, Eire, Germany and the Netherlands. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum amongst others.

His practice has always been informed and inspired by the study of natural phenomena and its subjective impact on our emotions. In recent years his work has become increasingly concerned with the underlying principles determining growth and the forms it produces.

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Reflections on Extinction – you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone 2023 – Peter Randall-Page

Richard Deacon’s voluptuous abstract forms have placed him at the forefront of British sculpture since the 1980s and, hugely influential, his works are visible in major public commissions around the world.

His work is abstract, but often alludes to anatomical functions. His works are often constructed from everyday materials and he calls himself a “fabricator” rather than a “sculptor”.

Deacon won the Turner Prize in 1987 (nominated for his touring show For Those Who Have Eyes) having previously been nominated in 1984.

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Long in the Tooth (Toothmarks), 2023 – Richard Deacon

Ami Vitale is an award-winning American photographer, filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer whose work reveals the connections between people, wildlife and the natural world. Working in more than 100 countries, she has documented endangered species and conservation success stories worldwide. She also founded Vital Impacts, supporting conservation through powerful visual storytelling.

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Well – Ami Vitale

Ashley Cooper is an award-winning British environmental photographer who has documented climate change across every continent. His landmark 14-year project, Images from a Warming Planet, records melting ice, extreme weather, threatened wildlife and frontline communities, alongside renewable energy solutions. His work combines powerful visual storytelling with a lifelong commitment to environmental awareness.

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Russell Glacier – Ashley Cooper

Beverly is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. She has specialized in African photography for nearly 35 years, with images in a dozen or more National Geographic Magazines, in more than 12 books, and thousands of articles around the world. Together with her husband Dereck Joubert,  their mission is the conservation and understanding of the large predators and other key wildlife species that determine the course of all conservation in Africa.

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Water Lord – Beverley Joubert

Bigert & Bergström are a Stockholm-based artist duo. Their creative partnership first began in 1986 and has since become internationally recognized for a wide range of conceptually and technically complex art projects.

Throughout their career, Bigert & Bergström have produced and created art projects ranging from large-scale sculptures and installations to performance and film. Often with a conceptual edge, the nexus of their work establishes itself at the junction between humanity, nature, and technology. With energetic curiosity and often using humor as a tool, the duo is known to analyze scientific and social issues discussed in contemporary society, such as climate change and environmental sustainability.

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Ride – Bigert and Bergstrom

Cristina Mittermeier is a Mexican-born photographer, marine biologist and pioneering conservationist whose work explores the relationship between people and nature. A National Geographic Explorer, she founded the International League of Conservation Photographers and co-founded SeaLegacy with Paul Nicklen, harnessing powerful visual storytelling to champion ocean conservation, wildlife and Indigenous communities.

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Alley of Giants – Cristina Mittermeier

Born in Madrid, Spain, Daniel Beltra is a photographer based in Seattle, Washington. His passion for conservation is evident in images of our environment that are evocatively poignant. The most striking large-scale photographs by Beltra are images shot from the air. This perspective gives the viewer a wider context to the beauty and destruction he witnesses, as well as revealing a delicate sense of scale.

In 2011 he received the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award and the Lucie Award for the International Photographer of the Year  Beltra’s work has been published by the most prominent international publications including The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Le Monde, and El Pais, amongst many others. Daniel Beltra is a fellow of the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers.

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Iceland #5 – Hvita River 2014 – Daniel Beltra

Michael Kenna is an English photographer best known for his unusual black and white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. His photos concentrate on the interaction between ephemeral atmospheric condition of the natural landscape, and human-made structures and sculptural mass.

Many books have been published of his work, the subjects of which range from The Rouge, in Dearborn Michigan, to the snow-covered island of Hokkaido, Japan. Kenna’s work is also held in permanent collections at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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Huangshan Mountains, Study 31, Anhui, China – Michael Kenna

Paul Goldstein is an award-winning British wildlife photographer, guide and conservationist with more than 40 years’ experience across all seven continents. Entirely self-taught, he is known particularly for photographing predators and polar wildlife. His uncompromising approach combines patience and fieldcraft with a strong commitment to ethical wildlife photography and conservation.

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Big Blue – Paul Goldstein

Paul Nicklen is a Canadian photographer, filmmaker, marine biologist and conservationist renowned for documenting oceans and polar regions. A longtime National Geographic photographer, his powerful images reveal the beauty and vulnerability of wildlife and wild places. In 2014, he co-founded SeaLegacy, using visual storytelling to inspire action for ocean conservation.

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Uncharted – Paul Nicklen

Richard Mosse (b. 1980, Ireland; based in New York) is an artist who seeks to heighten and extend the language of documentary photography to draw attention to overlooked yet urgent stories, working with the aesthetic power of his medium to create highly collaborative, immersive and groundbreaking new forms in photography and the moving image. He often employs special photographic technologies to encode invisible aspects of historically significant subjects within the materiality of his imagery.

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Log Barges, Santarem, Brazil – Richard Mosse

Sebastião Salgado was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojurnalist.

He  traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.

He was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993. He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016.

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Brooks Range, Alaska 2009 – Sebastiao Salgado

Sujoy Das is an Indian photographer, writer and mountaineer who has spent four decades documenting the Himalayas. A self-taught photographer based in Kolkata, his work captures the region’s extraordinary landscapes, people and cultures. His photographs and essays have appeared internationally, and he has published several books celebrating the Himalayan world.

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Kanchenjunga – Sujoy Das

Gazellah Bruder is a leading contemporary artist from Papua New Guinea, known for work addressing gender, identity, social inequality and environmental change. Born in Port Moresby in 1977 and of Tolai and Mekeo ancestry, she works across painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and illustration. Women are central to much of Bruder’s art, which explores their experiences, resilience and status within Papua New Guinean society.

Increasingly, her work also confronts environmental issues, including deforestation, ocean pollution and the impact of human activity on marine ecosystems. Bruder has exhibited extensively in Papua New Guinea and internationally, using art as a powerful means of storytelling, advocacy and social change.

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Octopus Garden – Gazellah Bruder

Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar, known as Jantsa, is a Mongolian multidisciplinary artist born in Ulaanbaatar in 1992. His work draws deeply on Mongolia’s landscapes, nomadic traditions, folklore and oral culture, exploring ideas of identity, resilience, adaptation and change. He often incorporates found natural materials, including wood and animal horn, reflecting both the resourcefulness of nomadic life and his own childhood experiences of Mongolia’s steppe.

Jantsa studied at Hunter College in New York and completed an MFA at UCLA in 2019. That same year, he represented Mongolia at the 58th Venice Biennale. His work has since been exhibited internationally, including at Art Basel Hong Kong and galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Ulaanbaatar.

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Where is the Spirit Today? – Jantsa Erdenebayer

Kanak Chanpa Chakma is a celebrated Bangladeshi artist whose vibrant paintings explore indigenous identity, culture and the natural world. Born in 1963 in the Rangamati Hill Tracts, she belongs to the Chakma community, whose traditions, landscapes and everyday life have remained central to her work. Women feature prominently in her paintings, alongside scenes inspired by festivals, textiles and rural life.

Chanpa studied at the University of Dhaka, completing an MFA in 1986, before undertaking a fellowship at Pennsylvania State University. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally, and in 2023 she received the prestigious Ekushey Padak for her contribution to Bangladeshi art.

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A Day of Hope – Kanak Chanpa

Nasim Hantehzadeh is an Iranian-American artist whose bold, expressive paintings and drawings explore identity, memory, sexuality and the experience of living between cultures. Born in Oklahoma in 1988 and raised in Tehran, Hantehzadeh studied art in Iran before moving to the United States, completing a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA at UCLA. Their colourful, often abstract compositions combine fluid, biomorphic forms with influences ranging from Persian visual culture and Islamic architecture to ancient and indigenous art.

Now based in Los Angeles, Hantehzadeh has exhibited internationally and received awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award.

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The Light Contest – Nasim Hantehzadeh

Rashid Diab is one of Sudan’s most prominent contemporary artists, known for paintings and prints that explore identity, memory, migration and the landscapes and culture of his homeland. Born in Wad Madani in 1957, he studied art in Khartoum before continuing his education in Spain, completing a PhD at the Complutense University of Madrid.

His distinctive work combines Sudanese cultural influences with techniques developed during his years in Europe, often using vivid colour, isolated figures and expansive spaces. Diab returned to Sudan in 1999, establishing the Dara Art Gallery and later the Rashid Diab Arts Centre. Following the outbreak of war in Sudan in 2023, he was forced to return to Spain, where he continues to work.

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People of Nowhere – Rashid Diab

Shaq Koyok, born Shahar Koyok in 1985, is a Malaysian contemporary artist and activist from the indigenous Temuan community of Selangor. Growing up in Kampung Pulau Kempas, he witnessed the destruction and development of the rainforest surrounding his village, an experience that has profoundly shaped his art. Working across painting, portraiture and installation, Koyok explores the relationship between indigenous communities and the natural world, while highlighting threats to traditional culture, forests and ancestral land.

A Fine Arts graduate of Universiti Teknologi MARA, he received the Merdeka Award Grant in 2017 and has exhibited internationally. His work gives a powerful voice to Malaysia’s Orang Asli communities.

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Ancient Protectors – Shaq Koyok

Tichaona ‘Tich’ Ncube is a Zimbabwean wildlife and portrait artist based in Victoria Falls. Born in 1986, he grew up in rural Tsholotsho, close to Hwange National Park, where he began drawing the cattle he herded, as well as kudu and other wildlife encountered in the surrounding bush. Largely self-taught, he later developed his skills under the mentorship of artists Sanele Dhlomo and Jimmy James Nkomo.

Working in oils, acrylics, watercolours, pastels and pencil, Ncube is particularly known for his expressive depictions of elephants and big cats. Conservation is central to his work, which seeks to celebrate Zimbabwe’s wildlife while highlighting the importance of protecting it for future generations.

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Rhythms of Community – Tichaona Ncube

Anne London is an acclaimed American wildlife artist renowned for her powerful, large-scale charcoal drawings of some of the world’s most iconic species. Inspired by decades spent observing wildlife in Africa, she creates intimate portraits of elephants, lions, rhinos, primates and other animals, revealing them as individuals with character, intelligence and presence.

Conservation is central to London’s work and she has long used her art to encourage greater understanding and protection of wildlife. She also founded Arts for Animals, an initiative using art and creative education to engage and inspire young people, particularly those living alongside wildlife in Africa.

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Moment of Clarity – Anne London

Emma Swift is an award-winning British wildlife artist known for her detailed and expressive oil paintings. Inspired by wildlife from Africa’s iconic mammals and big cats to British species, she combines careful observation with a strong sense of character, light and atmosphere. Swift has enjoyed notable success with Explorers Against Extinction’s Sketch for Survival, where her work has proved popular with collectors, and has also received recognition through the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s Wildlife Artist of the Year Awards.

Conservation is an important part of her practice, using art to celebrate wildlife while helping raise awareness and funds for its protection.

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Great Hornbill – Emma Swift

Gary Hodges is one of Britain’s best-known wildlife artists, celebrated for his extraordinarily detailed pencil drawings. Working almost exclusively in graphite, he creates powerful portraits of elephants, rhinos, big cats, primates and other wildlife, combining technical precision with remarkable character and presence. A professional artist since the 1980s, his originals and limited-edition prints are collected internationally.

Conservation has been central to his career, with his art raising substantial funds and awareness for threatened species, particularly elephants. A longstanding supporter of Explorers Against Extinction and Sketch for Survival, Hodges demonstrates the powerful role art can play in inspiring wildlife protection.

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Sabu – Gary Hodges

Karen Laurence-Rowe is an award-winning wildlife artist based in Kenya, inspired by a lifetime immersed in East Africa’s landscapes and wildlife. Born in Uganda and raised in Kenya, she is known for atmospheric paintings capturing elephants, big cats and other African species. Laurence-Rowe won the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s Wildlife Artist of the Year in both 2012 and 2023, making her the only artist to have won the award twice.

Conservation is integral to her work, and she has used her art to raise substantial funds and awareness for wildlife, celebrating the extraordinary animals and wild landscapes she knows so well.

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Water Seeker – Karen Laurence-Rowe

Sophie Green is an award-winning British wildlife and conservation artist known for her strikingly realistic paintings of threatened species. Working primarily in acrylics, she often places animals against minimal backgrounds, focusing attention on their individuality, character and presence. Conservation is central to Green’s practice, and her art has raised significant funds and awareness for wildlife organisations and projects around the world. Her subjects range from elephants, rhinos and big cats to primates and marine wildlife.

Widely exhibited and recognised through major wildlife art awards, Green uses her growing international profile to highlight endangered species and inspire greater engagement with their protection.

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Scales of Survival – Sophie Green