Iman Datoo is a multidisciplinary artist and Head of Research and Community at Radical Ecology. Her practice spans art, systems, and speculative ecologies to explore forces of agency, liveness, and animacy between plants, soils, and people. Through her work, she expands the language of care, revealing how seeds, earth, and even scent can embody memory, resistance, and visions of alternative futures.
Recent collaborations with Radical Ecology include the 100 Year Care Plan (2025), a long-term ecological framework that reimagines environmental stewardship as a slow, generational process rooted in collective responsibility, ancestral knowledge, and deep care for land and community. Other notable works include Movement is Natural (2024), a film uncovering the wisdom held in disturbances of so-called ‘waste’ soils in Cornwall’s mining tips and pits; Soil-Brain, Gut-Brain (2023), an audio-tactile installation exploring soil erosion through the lens of eating, digestion and nourishment; and Kinnomic Botany, a film and installation tracing the migratory epistemologies of the potato. Solo exhibitions include Kinnomics at Agnes Etherington Arts Centre (2025) and Movement is Natural at Grays Wharf Gallery (2024).
Iman was Artist-in-Residence at the Eden Project and the University of Exeter (2023), and is the 2025 Stonecroft Artist-in-Residence at Queen’s University Biological Field Station, Canada.