Remember Nature 2025

Remember Nature 2025 is an ambitious new staging of the visionary art project initiated in 2015 by the celebrated artist Gustav Metzger (1926-2017), and curated by Andrea Gregson and Jo Joelson.

Remember Nature 2025 marks the 10-year anniversary in partnership with 15 regional arts partners across England, culminating in a nationwide Day of Action on 4 November 2025.

Remember Nature 2025 will bring people together through a programme of cultural and artistic public interventions, to ‘remember nature’ and act collectively to face the climate and nature crisis.Co-curators Gregson and Joelson are leading the project with 17 collaborating arts organisations who will each nominate a lead artist. The artists will be commissioned to coordinate the Day of Action, engaging the public through place-specific art that can offer a compelling and empowering way to focus on protecting nature and our planet in an ecologically destructive era.

The partner organisation are:
Art Gene (Barrow-in-Furness), Baltic Contemporary (Gateshead), Castlefield Gallery (Manchester), De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea), FACT (Liverpool), Hatton Gallery (Newcastle), Hauser & Wirth (Somerset), Homotopia (Liverpool), Ikon (Birmingham), KARST (Plymouth), Kestle Barton and CAST (Cornwall), Kettles Yard (Cambridge), MIMA (Middlesborough), Serpentine Galleries (London), Tate Modern (London) and Turner Contemporary (Margate).

Remember Nature 2025 builds upon the initial Remember Nature in 2015 and Metzger’s call to action, which urged arts professionals and students from all disciplines “to make a stand against the ongoing erasure of species” and create new work to ‘remember nature’.

From coast to coast, city to town, contemporary arts organisations, artists, makers, and wider members of communities will develop artistic and public interventions in cultural venues and outdoor spaces, taking inspiration from Metzger’s works, manifestos and DIY aesthetic, to communicate why we need to ‘remember nature’, to ask wider audiences and members of the public to stop, pause in their daily routine, to slow down and think about the importance of nature and thus call to them to act and to adapt to the climate crisis.

The artistic acts and interventions on the Day of Action will be live streamed, recorded and shared via a new project website: https://remembernature.art/

Lead Artist Hamish Fulton

1946. Hamish Fulton born London.

1964 – 1969. Attended 3 London art schools including St Martins where with other students made his first documented group ‘artwalk’ – 2 February 1967.

1969 – 2024. Exhibited internationally creating more the 250 solo shows.

1973 made one UK walk of just over one thousand miles thereafter describing himself as ‘a walking artist.’

2000. With Sherpa assistance Fulton ascended to 8125 metres on Cho Oyu

In Tibet without bottled oxygen.

2002. One person exhibition at Tate Britain.

2009 With Sherpa assistance ascends to the 8849 metre summit of Chomolungma, Mount Everest using bottled oxygen. 19 May.

Claire Hind

Claire Hind is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at YSJU, and uses walking in her research to write and produce electronic dance poetry with the performance group The Long Dead Stars whose work reflects on nature and deep time.  Claire’s practice and her collaboration on the Ways to Wander projects with Clare Qualmann have been instrumental in the international development of a culture of walking and experimental writing with their Ways to Wander books and associated project at Tate Modern.  Claire was a project associate on the Walking Publics / Walking Art research project co-curating The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing. Claire also collaborates with Phil Smith and Helen Billinghurst on Walking Bodies  . She tours live theatre work internationally as a contemporary story teller on nature walking. www.clairehind.com

Clare Qualmann

Clare Qualmann is an artist/researcher whose work focuses on participatory, site specific, and experimental modes of creative practice, often using walking. Ongoing art projects include East End Jam, a walking, foraging, and preserving project that celebrates the unexpected fruitfulness of the urban environment. With Claire Hind she has edited two volumes of ‘wander scores’ both published by Triarchy Press. A founding member of the Walking Artists Network, Qualmann led an AHRC funded project (2012-2015) to extend its interdisciplinary connections internationally, using walking as a creative critical practice. Qualmann is Associate Professor in contemporary performance at the University of East London (UK) where her teaching, research and art practice explore the interconnections between art, activism and the radical potentials of participation. 

Bram Thomas Arnold

Dr. Bram Thomas Arnold is an artist that started with walking and kept going, into performance, broadcasting, installation, writing and academia: I am currently Lecturer at Falmouth University where I run Critical studies Modules in Fine Art building a frame of reference for Fine Art to be undertaken as a form of visual philosophy. My research interests coalesce around performance, writing, and walking through autoethnographic and ecological methodologies. Recent publications include ‘Production and consumption in Bibliotherapy for the Anthropocene’ in Landscape Research Journal (2025).