Co-founder and past Creative Director of SongBird and former Director of Exposure Photographic Gallery, Beth is an internationally exhibited artist and writer whose investigation of the culture/nature relationship spans more than 20 years. From her early work with the Vancouver office of Greenpeace and with the All Species Project in the mid 1980's, to the creation of community engaged Arts/Science collaborations, her work seeks solutions to a perceived human separation from an environing world.
She holds an MA in Values and Environment from the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University in the UK, a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, has studied at the University of British Columbia, the Lacoste School of the Arts in France and worked with Interactive Technologies and New Media at Simon Fraser University.
Current research projects explore the role of aesthetic experience in ethical nature-culture relations - specifically in the context of current thinking about sustainability and land-use policy - and related questions of a shared human/non-human ontology.
Beth's international practice as a teacher, visiting lecturer and artist
includes presentations on ecophenomenology, environmental ethics and embodied
aesthetics in contemporary EcoART practices. She works as a consultant,
and collaborates with scientists, architects and environmental and social
issues groups.