Dr Prudence Gibson
Lecturer
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research
Dr Prudence Gibson is author of monographsÌýThe Plant ThievesÌý(NewSouth Publishing 2023),ÌýThe Plant Contract (Brill 2018) and The Pharmacy of Plants: Janet LaurenceÌý(NewSouth Publishing 2015) in addition to trade books, essays and peer-review papers. Her latest edited book is Dark BotanyÌý(Open Humanities Press 2024). Her recent article on poison gardens for The ConversationÌýÌýwas translated into French and received over 150 000 reads.
All her work is informed by theoreticalÌýconcepts of plant humanities, environmental aesthetics, eco-feminism, plant medicine (poisons) history and post-human theory. She was Lead CI on the 2020-24 ARCÌýLinkage grantÌýExploring the cultural value of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium collection using an environmental aesthetic.
Her teaching includes DART3330 Art and Climate (focussing on plant humanities) and DART3340 Art and Activism. Gibson's own practiceÌýweaves fictional elements andÌýnarrative threads into herÌýscholarly publications. She is partÌýof the Scrub Collective, commissioned by the City of Sydney to create a Dirt Witches Banksia Forest in Haymarket, Sydney.Ìý
Gibson is creative submissions editor of Plant Perspectives, is an active participant in US networkÌýThe Plant Initiative and is on the editorial board of Seedbooks, Open Humanities Press. She collaborates with scholars at Queen Mary University (London), York University (Canada) and Kew Gardens (London). She is a member of the deep south chapter of the plant humanities network,ÌýWorking With Plants in the Anthropocene.
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2020-3Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýLead Chief Investigator ARC Linkage LP190100069 $296, 000
2019ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Â鶹Éçmadou Art and Design Dean’s Award for best scholarly single author book – The Plant Contract, Brill.
2019ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Â鶹Éçmadou Art and Design Faculty Research Grant $9, 465ÌýÌýÌý
2018ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Â鶹Éçmadou Art and Design Faculty Research Grant $10,500
2017ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Â鶹Éçmadou Art and Design Faculty Research Grant $1,800
2015 ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Â鶹Éçmadou School of Arts and Media School Research Grant $5000 for Janet Laurence monograph New South Publishing.
2014ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Australia Council New Work grant (Visual Arts Board)Ìý $20 000 to write a book on ‘Plant sentience, bio-art and aesthetics of cure.’
2014ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Dean’s Student Leadership Award – Research, FASS, Â鶹Éçmadou
2013ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Dean’s Student Leadership Award – Creative and Performing Arts, FASS, Â鶹Éçmadou.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
2011ÌýÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Full-time post-graduate scholarship APA Â鶹Éçmadou for PhD in writing,Ìý Ìý$24 000 per annum for three years.
2011 ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý International Independent Publishers (silver) Award for category of essay/creative non fiction for the book The Rapture of Death.
2009 ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Australia Council New Work grant (Visual Arts Board) $10 000 toÌýwrite a book, The Rapture of Death.
Gibson is Lead Chief InvestigatorÌýon the ARC Linkage project 2020-23, entitledÌýExploring the cultural value of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium collection using an environmental aesthetic $296 000.Her research teamÌýincludes Brett Summerell, chief botanistÌýRoyal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and Sophie O'Brien CEOÌýof Bundanon Trust, Â鶹Éçmadou'sÌýSigi Jottkandt and Melbourne University's Professor Marie Sierra.
She is also a key member of the Dirt Witches eco-activist group that creates artworks and urban greening projects to raise awareness for changes toÌýbiodiversity and plant extinctions.
She collaborates with botanists, horticulturists, community greening staff and herbarium managers, and works to deepenÌýconnections (and outputs) with her network of poets, artists, writers and film-makers.