Dr Prudence Gibson is author of monographs The Plant Thieves (NewSouth Publishing 2023), The Plant Contract (Brill 2018) and The Pharmacy of Plants: Janet Laurence (NewSouth Publishing 2015) in addition to trade books, essays and peer-review papers. Her latest edited book is Dark Botany (Open Humanities Press 2024). All her work is informed by theoretical concepts of critical plant studies, environmental aesthetics, eco-feminism and post-human theory. Her wider work extends to scripting and producing video art, narrative projects and curatorial approaches to plants inspired by new aesthetics and new plant science.  She is Lead CI on the 2020-24 ARC Linkage grant Exploring the cultural value of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium collection using an environmental aesthetic. In this role she has commissioned artists, poets, sound designers and micro-fiction writers to collaborate with her and with expert scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, in order to revalue their collections.

Gibson's own practice weaves fictional elements and narrative threads into her scholarly publications. She is also a producer of NTROs and is part of a team commissioned by City of Sydney to create a Barlow Street Banksia Forest in Haymarket. Her latest book The Plant Thieves reveals the stories of the plants and people connected to the Herbarium, Mt Annan, Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens. The narrative focuses on the herbarium's specimens and botanists. She has been invited as a keynote speaker to a number of events and symposia most recently the Potsdam Film University 2021 Fabulation symposium, the Mind of Plants Symposium 2021 and the Being with Plants 2021 conference. She has been invited to present as part of The Conversation's partnership with the State Library of Queensland Live panel discussion "Once Upon a Plant." She collaborates with scholars at York University (Canada) and Kew Gardens (London). She is a member of the deep south chapter of  the plant studies network, Working With Plants in the Anthropocene.