E (Emma) Pavans de Ceccatty, MSc

Emma is an environmental artist and a Creative Geographies PhD candidate at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. She is a transdisciplinary researcher working at the intersections of art and environmental justice, exploring the impacts of industrial chemical pollution through a participatory craft praxis. Previously, she worked as a grassroots campaigner for the charity Pesticide Action Network UK, assisting residents and local authorities across the UK go pesticide-free.

As a creative practitioner, Emma works primarily with textiles and crafts, producing crochet pieces, participatory quilts, and illustrated found-object works; most notably participating in the Cambridge Sustainability Art Residency and Remembrance Day for Lost Species. She also set up the Regen Art Lab and its art residency scheme for Regen (a renewable energy think tank), and curated an exhibition for ONCA gallery on pesticides, ‘social seeds’.

Finally, Emma holds the Environment, Culture and Society MSc from the University of Edinburgh where her thesis focused on bioart and plastic chemicals, and an Environmental History and Art History BA from University of Sussex.