Born Cardiff, Wales 1969
Self -employed artist and creative coach, Lecturer at Aberystwyth University
PHD Research and Postgraduate supervisor 2024 – ongoing
Creative Arts degree scheme coordinator and lecturer in fine art, 2006 – 2024
Co – director of the Centre for Material Thinking (CMT) Aberystwyth University, Wales 2022 – 2024.
EDUCATION:
Associate research student, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London 2001-02
Postgraduate Diploma in Sculpture, The Royal Academy Schools, London 1993-96
BA (Hons) Fine Art exchange student, Emily Carr School of Art, Vancouver, Canada, 1991
BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff 1991 BA (Hons) 1989-92
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/THEATRE PRODUCTIONS:
When Peat Speaks: A Boggy Gassy Bubbly Ensemble, Cambrian mountains, West Wales, May 2026
When Seeds Speak: A Seedy Ensemble, Seligman Theatre, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales, September 2024
When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble, Theatr y Werin, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
When Earth Speaks, Solo exhibition, Vane Gallery, Newcastle, June 2024 + in conversation with Catherine Bertola
Soil Voices, a live stream solo performance funded by Natural Environment Research Council, August 2023
Crossed Paths – Scots Pine, photographic exhibition, Carlow Art Collection, County Carlow College, Ireland 2023
Crossed Paths, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales 2018
Passage – Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Art, Bath 2015
Lost Kingdom of Lanna – Ne’-Na Contemporary Art Space, Monfai Cultural Centre, Chaing Mai, Thailand 2013
Continuous… Maumau Artists Residency Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey 2012
Is it ok if?, Gallery One, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales 2009
Whall and Whiteley: New Work, Gimpel Fils, London 2010
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Earth Matters: Eco‑Embodied Arts for Planetary Crisis & Care’ at Lalbhai-Dalpatbhai-Museum in Ahmedabad, Gurarat, India, 2026
Reclaiming Hope: Removing Carbon, Arts & Science Festival, Botanical Gardens Bristol, 2026
Land, Material, Memory, Performing Landscape, Tate Britain, 2026
The Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025, touring exhibition, 2025-26
ArtBomb; Arts Festival, Doncaster, 2025
Matter is Messy #1: Embodied Ecologies, Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria, curated by Minou Tsambika Polleros, 2025
Underground/Passage an exhibition curated by A Sometimes Project for Art Week Exeter 2025
Soil; The World at our Feet, co- curated by The Land Gardiners; Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy, independent curator and writer May Rosenthal and Somerset House Senior Curator Claire Catterall, Somerset House, London, January – April 2025
ArtBomb; Arts Festival, Doncaster, 2023
Becoming Tree; A Global Online Performance Event, 2020, 2021
Sheep/Defaid, Ceredigion Museum, 2019 (shortlisted for the Museums + Heritage Award 2020 and Museum of the Year 2020)
Under British Skies, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk 2019
Vicennial, Vane Gallery, Newcastle 2017
DEIXIS (part 1), Mizoomi Gallery, London 2016
Artists without Borders, Schloss Wolersdorf, Vienna , Gallery Karşı Sanat, Istanbul, Austrian Cultural Forum Ankara 2015
Luminous Language, Launch F18, New York, USA 2013
Warning! This is Contemporary Art, Warning Art Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2012
The Man Don’t Give a Fuck, Motorcade Flash Parade, Bristol 2012
DrawingMMX2/Surface Language, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff University, Cardiff 2012
THE FUTURE CAN WAIT; Polemically Small, Charlie Smith Gallery, London 2011
3 Worlds in 1: London International, Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania 2011
THE FUTURE CAN WAIT Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, USA 2011
The Animal Gaze, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World at Exeter, City Museum & Gallery, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth College of Art & Design and the Roland Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth, 2010, Sheffield Institute of the Arts Gallery, Sheffield 2011
PRESENTATIONS:
Drawing Projects UK; Girl Friday Breakfast Club, November 2026
GardenArtGarden, A series of talks Curated by Tim Richardson, The Garden Museum, October 2026
Finding Common Ground, Interdisciplinary Soil Symposium, University of Sheffield, July 2026
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Peatland Under Pressure, Peatland Programme Conference 2026, Swansea University, June 2026
Planetary Thinking: From relations to politics: pathways toward a planetary praxis conference at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany 2025
Drawing our Worlds Symposium, Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize, London, October 2025
The UK GGR Event, CO2RE Conference, The Royal Institution, London, Sept/October 2025
Digital Ecologies; Machine/Material/Land, University Bath Spa, Keynote Speaker, July 2025
New Science Forum, Aberystwyth University, November 2025
Rural Futures Hub Annual Conference, Aberystwyth University, April 2024
Crossed Paths – Scots Pine, Carlow College, Carlow County, Ireland, February 2023
Sentient Performativities: thinking alongside the human, symposium, Dartington Hall, June 2022
LADA Screens, the online launch of Crossed Paths – Scots Pine, 2022
Visualising Landscape Futures: Art-Science Collaborations in an Era of Change, Climate Change Festival of Research, Aberystwyth University, 2021
Climate Action Berwick’s Elemental Environmental Festival, 2021
Ecoart, Artists working with Trees, 2021
Objet – a becoming Feral print and digital publication, December 2021
Future Landscapes Symposium, symposium, Aberystwyth University, 2020
Walking’s New Movements, conference, Plymouth University, November 2019
INTERVIEWS/WRITING/PUBLICATION:
Wife Witch Whore: Essential Conversations About Gender Art and Culture co-edited by Helen Gorrill, Sue Williams and Marilyn Allen, published by Bloomsbury, 2026
The Future Present: Messages to the Future from those in the Arts, Loophole Projects 2026
Dramatical Performances: Making Theatre with More-Than-Human Others, Routledge, 2026
When Earth Speaks: Miranda Whall on Drawing, Performance, Data and Gentle Activism, interview by Collete Coleman, ecoartspace, December 2025, 2025
Soils Turn; A Field Guide to Earthly Engagement, one of 30 featured artists in a publication comprising of 170 artists, co-edited by Alexandra R. Toland and Patricia L. Watts, published by ecoartspace and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2025.
Contemporary Theatre Review/Interventions Winter, 2025
‘Queering ecologies to cultivate unity’ – a Be-coming Tree roundtable discussion, Antennae : The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture Issue 64 Summer 2024
Artists’ Stories, an interview with artist Stephen Palmer for Vane Gallery, Newcastle, May 2023
Climate Cultures – Creative Conversations for the Anthropocene, January 2022
Objet – a becoming Feral, December 2021
Adventure Uncovered; Edition 3; What is Adventure? Interview with editor Sam Firman, August 2020
AWARDS/FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS:
Creative commission from UKRI CO2RE – Green House Gas Removal Hub, Oxford University 2025 – 2026
Rural Futures Hub, Aberystwyth University, Pump Prime Funding, 2025
The Worlds We Want, Aberystwyth University, Pump Prime Funding, 2025
UKRI CO2RE The UK’s national hub for Greenhouse Gas Removal, creative initiative grant recipient 2025 – 26.
Live Art in Rural Spaces, UK Programme (LARUK), Live Art Development Agency (LADA) -, 2023 –2024.
Rural Futures Hub, Aberystwyth University
Planetary Multispecies Politics in Action, funded by Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), January – March 2023
Making the invisible visible: Instrumenting and interpreting an upland landscape for climate change resilience, funded by Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), January – March 2022
ACW Large Grant for individuals, 2017
ACW Major Creative Wales Award, 2012
FILMS:
When Peat Speaks: A Boggy Cloudy Bubbly Ensemble by Hijack films, 2026
When Peat Speaks: A Boggy Cloudy Ensemble (part one) by Hijack films, 2025
Soil: The World at Our Feet, Documentary film featuring 5 artists, directed by Radford Nicholls and Wes Gilpin, produced by Somerset House, 2025
When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble by Amy Daniel 2024
Woolly Maggot by Rhys Thwaites – Jones, 2018