Climate Museum UK is a Community Interest Company (CIC) with a growing number of members developing activities in their areas across the UK. We actively seek the involvement of people who bring diverse perspectives and practices.
Our Members
Bridget McKenzie
Bridget McKenzie is a researcher and creative curator working across culture, environment and public engagement.
She founded Climate Museum UK and Culture Declares Emergency in 2019 after nearly 3 decades managing & evaluating cultural learning programmes, including as founding director of Flow Associates since 2006. Having moved back home to Norwich, she has created a local programme called Possitopia Norwich, under the umbrella of CMUK.
Lucy Carruthers
Lucy Carruthers is an experiential designer and consultant for museums, exhibitions and visitor attractions.
Lucy is also a multi-disciplinary artist curating alternative climate narratives through Floodproof. Passionate about creatively mapping sustainable pathways for adaption to a zero carbon future in the context of a changed climate. Lucy is a Co-director of Climate Museum UK.
Victoria Burns
Victoria Burns has a 25-year career working in culture and the arts as a producer, curator and organisational development consultant.
She’s a co-director of CMUK. In the last ten years she aligned her interest in environmental science and activism with her professional commitment to arts and culture. She is the former head of programme at Invisible Dust and is now the national coordinator for Culture Declares. She is an alumnus from the Creative Climate Leadership (CCL) programme run by Julie’s Bicycle where she recognised the critical role of the cultural community in cultivating the vision and inspiration for vital systemic changes. She studied Coaching Psychology at Birkbeck College, UoL, and is interested in the new leadership paradigms for the complex challenges of the 21st Century.
Tamasin Rhymes
Tamasin Rhymes is trained as a set designer and has worked across theatre, education and events.
She is currently working on environmental community projects in Greenwich under Greenwich Sustainability Hub. This is a project to connect residents with repair, reuse and sharing projects to build a circular economy in the borough. She is also involved with growing projects at Plum Lane Community Orchard and Herbert Road Green Oasis among others.
Justine Boussard
Justine Boussard is an independent curator and creative producer working in the fields of design, craft and culture, with a keen interest in regenerative practices and Long Time Thinking.
Her practice encompasses exhibition curation and production, events management, strategic consulting and community engagement. Clients include UP Projects, the Design Museum and the British Council. In 2019, Justine founded There Project (thereproject.org) with curator Sarah Turner to address key contemporary issues through the medium of public design interventions. Projects include Designing London National Park City, an audio-journey exploring Regent’s Canal from the perspective of a bird and questioning how design can help us become more ecocentric. She is part of the AHRC-funded research network Crafting the Commons, which brings together makers, academics and curators to examine the intersection of craft practices and the commons.
Genevieve Rudd
Genevieve Rudd is an artist based in Great Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast.
Informed by her training in art photography, Genevieve works in early photography techniques, such as Cyanotype and Anthotype, in a multidisciplinary approach often combined with textile arts and drawing. Her inspiration is drawn from the natural world through exploring botanical forms, working directly with plants or the weather, or utilising recycled, natural and found materials. Within this, she considers themes of time, place and seasonality. Genevieve has worked as a freelance Community Artist since 2011. Since 2018, she has been an Associate Artist/Tutor at Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts at University of East Anglia, and is currently an Arts Practitioner representative on the Norfolk Arts Forum/Norfolk County Council Executive Committee. Through her participatory arts work, Genevieve has developed projects with broad audiences in many community settings in East Anglia and London that consider heritage, cultural and environmental themes. She leads projects that encourage closer looking, enquiry through making and ask about the places and people around us.
Hayley Harrison
Hayley Harrison is a multi-disciplinary artist working with abandoned materials (human and non-human) and forgotten spaces to start conversations about our disconnection with ‘nature’ and each other.
She was recently awarded an Arts Council England DYCP grant for her project ‘Practicing Outside’ based at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve where she has spent much of this summer starting conversations with the non-human and visiting human communities. This research is feeding back into her community work, in which she has over 10 years experience. Hayley is also the Creative Coordinator at Cubitt – where she manages community projects with older people.
Kevin Campbell Davidson
Kevin Campbell Davidson is an award-winning community arts practitioner working with music, dance, spoken words and storytelling, working with charities including Music for Change, Music in Detention and Save the Children, delivering work at venues such as Sadlers Wells, Southbank Centre, the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal College of Arts.
Kevin takes a participatory and inclusive approach, linking community, culture and learning, working with families, culturally-diverse and inter-generational groups. Kevin’s work is diverse and linked by themes of social and planetary justice.
James Aldridge
James Aldridge is a visual artist and consultant based in Wiltshire, working with people and places.
The individual and participatory sides of his practice each feed into and inform the other. Together they generate a body of practice-led research into the value of artful, embodied and situated (place-based) learning, and their benefits for individual, community and ecological wellbeing. He has carried out residencies and commissions for range of arts, heritage and environmental organisations, and curated exhibitions including The Art of Outdoor Learning at MK Gallery and Making Memories (Art and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years) at Salisbury Art Centre. He provides professional development for artists and educators in schools, arts and heritage organisations and has facilitated community consultation projects for organisations including English Heritage and National Trust. He’s also worked as a visiting lecturer at a number of universities, including with student teachers, medical students and doctoral candidates.
Becky Leach McDonald
Beckie Leach McDonald is an ecological artist and storyteller, as well as a creative learning and deep listening facilitator.
They have two years experience working with Tate Learning and Tate Exchange, and 8 years experience working for the University of the Arts London as a Lecturer and Programme Co-ordinator. Beckie specialises in tracking old stories, myths and fairy tales about human & more-than-human entanglements, that reignite our relationship to place and the wild, and breathing new life into them. They are passionate about collaboration, working with communities and developing ecologically engaged practice.
Lorraine Finch
Lorraine Finch is a co-director of Climate Museum UK. She has worked in cultural heritage for over 25 years.
She spent many of these years working as an accredited conservator via her business, LFCP. She has now combined her passions for the environment and heritage and work as a sustainability advisor in cultural heritage. The climate and environment action of LFCP spans, research, training and developing the tools that the sector is calling for. She has published Low cost/no cost tips for sustainability in cultural heritage.
Kathy Moore
Kathy Moore has spent 19 years working in the museum sector after leaving secondary science teaching. In 2023 she left the team at SHARE Museums East (Museum Development programme, East of England) after 10 years, to work freelance as part of NZC Services.
She has always been aware of and interested in the Climate and Earth crises. She ran a museum-led A-level conference on Biodiversity annually for over 10 years using Natural History collections and many external partners. In 2022 she developed and wrote a successful bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a new post and programme within the SHARE Museums East team: SHARE Environmentally Responsible Museums. Kathy has delivered Carbon Literacy courses to several museums over the last two years and is now on the team working with Historic England to roll out their Carbon Literacy offer. Kathy is deputy chair of GEM (Group for Education in Museums) and their Environmental Responsibility champion.
Clémence Aycard
Clémence Aycard is an ecocritical art historian and sustainability advocate, based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Her practice focuses on telling environmental stories through museum collections. In 2021, she wrote ‘Scenes from Our Climate’ for Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Glasgow). She is currently working on a similar project for her home museum, the Burrell Collection, where she also co-runs a Sustainability Working Group. Clémence is trained in personal sustainability through the Cultivate Course, and currently enrolled in an Organizational Sustainability course with the Open University. Through curatorial work, sustainability checks and facilitating conversations, she hopes to inspire more museums to become leaders in tackling environmental topics.
Megan Bowyer
Megan Bowyer is an artist working in the northwest of England and in Paris, France, looking at the interdisciplinary histories of landscapes like the Lake District.
Most of her work is in drawing and writing, and in 2021 she was Climate Museum Young Associate at Tullie House Museum and Gallery. Read more about this project here: https://www.tulliehouse.co.uk/climate-museum-young-associate-project.
Dorry Fox
Dorry Fox first heard about – and became very interested in – the work of Climate Museum UK when she started my PhD in October 2021.
“My project is a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between the University of East Anglia and the Science Museum in London. The focus of my research is ‘curating climate change’: analysing and comparing how UK-based science museums and science centres have engaged with the issue in curatorial activities.”
Other supporters and associates include: Meg McKenzie, Freya Mitchison, Jaime Jackson, Ann Borda, Amy Scaife, Megan Bowyer, Tom Mansfield, Kaitlin Hyde, Sonia Barrett, Jess Farr, Company Carpi and Wise Ram Theatre.
Are you interested? As a member you can use the CIC as a platform for your practice as long as it sits within our mission and principles, help with tasks such as building up our digital collection, reviewing climate resources and exhibitions, or writing blogposts.
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