Ana MacArthur
Ana MacArthur’s transdisciplinary environmental art practice, integrated with the phenomena and role of light, functions as creative catalyst revealing nature’s processes and connected metaphors through the lenses of life’s relationship to light, environmental intelligence, and appropriate technology. Having a history of working in light-based media, 20 yrs. pioneering work in dichromate holography, and co-founding a dichromate holography lab in Santa Fe, NM deepened further evolutions into the visible/near visible EM spectrum and sustainable technologies. MacArthur’s research-based practice delves into edges of the biological/ bio-inspired, addressing bio-diversity loss and deep listening to the more-than-human. For 40+ yrs. she has collaborated with scientific research and labs, with solar ingenuity, bio-photonics experts, bio-inspired engineers, and in fieldwork with conservation, evolutionary and developmental biologists. In 2007 she embarked on an ambitious project in the Amazon Rainforest addressing climate instability and multi-species preservation. Trained in biomimicry she has planted eco-literacy thinking in youth STEAM workshops, as eco-activism, and often generated from her projects. Along with an international exhibition and lecture roster, notable residencies with renown scientists, significant awards supporting her work, and publications and scholarly writings documenting it, she holds an MFA with Transart Institute, University of Plymouth, Plymouth. UK.
