Miranda Whall (b. Cardiff, 1969) studied at UWIC Cardiff; Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver; the Royal Academy Schools; and Goldsmiths, University of London. Whall has received numerous Arts Council England grants, including the ACE-funded Berlin residency, and was awarded a Major Creative Wales Award and Large Production Grant from Arts Council Wales. Whall is currently the recipient of a creative commission from UKRI CO2RE – Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub, Oxford University 2025 – 2026 for When Peat Speaks (2025–26). In 2024, she was awarded the inaugural Live Art Rural UK Fellowship by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). Whall has been a co-investigator on several recent NERC-funded cross-disciplinary projects and works at the intersection of performance, expanded drawing, film and environmental science. She is the director and performer of two recent stage productions When Seeds Speak: A Seedy Ensemble, Seligman Theatre, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff 2024, and When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble, Aberystwyth Arts Centre 2024. Notable and recent solo exhibitions include When Earth Speaks, Vane, Newcastle 2024, Crossed Paths – Sheep, Oriel Davies, Newtown, and Passage, Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, Bath. She was recently included in the groundbreaking exhibition Soil: The World at Our Feet at Somerset House, London 2024, and is exhibiting in The Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize, London 2025, touring until 2026. Whall was the keynote speaker for Digital Ecologies III; Machine/Material/Land at Bath Spa University, Bath 2025, presenter at TBWD Drawing our Worlds Symposium, London, 2025, the Planetary Thinking: From Relations to Politics: Pathways Toward a Planetary Praxis Conference at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, 2025, presenter at IUCN Peatlands Under Pressure Conference, Swansea University, 2026, Finding Common Ground: An Interdisciplinary Soil Symposium on Soil, Sheffield Hallam University 2026. Whall is currently a postgraduate and PhD research supervisor and lecturer in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University, a creative coach, and mentor for Arts Council Wales.