In a time of mass extinction, artist and curator Zahra Coulthard explores how to archive nature. Her work engages audiences in multisensory experiences that build an empathic relationship to nature and a desire to protect it.
Zahra uses found objects: mudlarked, organic grounds or organisms, to act as reference points to an environmental experience. She disrupts the gallery with sound and scentscapes. Blended, foraged sounds take the audience on an auditory journey; smell transports participants by evoking memories. Zahra's work is organic and nurtures the universal respect for organisms.
Zahra graduated from UCL with a First Class Hons in History of Art and Anthropology and spent a year at the Slade School of Fine Art studying Methodologies of Drawing. She is currently studying Material Futures MA at Central Saint Martins. Zahra has curated programmes for Tate including the Late at Tate Britain: Women in Revolt! along with curating the Nature and Nurture Festival for RHS Wisley and RHS Wisley's Scientific Centre for research RHS Hilltop. Her artwork has featured in several exhibitions including Tate’s Queer and Now festival and the Lethaby Gallery exhibition Soil, Toil, Table.
