My Expertise
Environmental Aesthetics; Critical Plant Studies; Herbarium Studies; Speculative Aesthetics and Plants; Plant Philosophy and Narrative.
Biography
Dr Prudence Gibson is Research Fellow at Art and Design, UNSW.
She is Lead CI on the 2020-23 ARC Linkage grant Exploring the cultural value of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium collection using an environmental aesthetic.
Her area of research interest is Critical Plant Studies (Environmental Aesthetics) that addresses the crossover between plant collections and art/narrative.
Specifically, she is best known for the way she weaves...view more
Dr Prudence Gibson is Research Fellow at Art and Design, UNSW.
She is Lead CI on the 2020-23 ARC Linkage grant Exploring the cultural value of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium collection using an environmental aesthetic.
Her area of research interest is Critical Plant Studies (Environmental Aesthetics) that addresses the crossover between plant collections and art/narrative.
Specifically, she is best known for the way she weaves fictional elements or narrative threads into her scholarly publications.
She is author of the following books:
2018 The Plant Contract, Brill, Boston.
2018 Covert Plants (editor) Punctum, San Diego
2016 Aesthetics After Finitude (editor) re.press, Melbourne.
2015 Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants, New South, Sydney.
2010 The Rapture of Death, Sydney
She is also author of over 300 catalogue essays, peer-reviewed chapters and articles; and mainstream essays.
Her next scholarly sole author book, The Herbarium and I, is an ecological memoir of the Herbarium, Mt Annan, Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens. It will be a wunderkammer of essays on the herbarium's specimens and botanists.
My Grants
2020-3 Lead Chief Investigator ARC Linkage LP190100069 $296, 000
2019 UNSW Art and Design Dean’s Award for best scholarly single author book – The Plant Contract, Brill.
2019 UNSW Art and Design Faculty Research Grant $9, 465
2018 UNSW Art and Design Faculty Research Grant $10,500
2017 UNSW Art and Design Faculty Research Grant $1,800
2015 UNSW School of Arts and Media School Research Grant $5000 for Janet Laurence monograph New South Publishing.
2014 Australia Council New Work grant (Visual Arts Board) $20 000 to write a book on ‘Plant sentience, bio-art and aesthetics of cure.’
2014 Dean’s Student Leadership Award – Research, FASS, UNSW
2013 Dean’s Student Leadership Award – Creative and Performing Arts, FASS, UNSW.
2011 Full-time post-graduate scholarship APA UNSW for PhD in writing, $24 000 per annum for three years.
2011 International Independent Publishers (silver) Award for category of essay/creative non fiction for the book The Rapture of Death.
2009 Australia Council New Work grant (Visual Arts Board) $10 000 to write a book, The Rapture of Death.
My Research Activities
Gibson is Lead Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage project 2020-23, entitled
Exploring the cultural value of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium
collection using an environmental aesthetic $296 000.
Her research team includes Brett Summerell, chief botanist Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and Deborah Ely CEO of Bundanon Trust, UNSW's Sigi Jottkandt and Melbourne University's Professor Marie Sierra.
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9586-7149