James Aldridge is a visual artist based in Wiltshire, UK, whose practice explores the role of visual arts processes and multi-sensory experiences within place-based learning, and individual/ecological wellbeing.
In 2020, James founded Queer River, an independent research project that brings together diverse perspectives on the future of rivers, including voices from queer and neuro-divergent communities. Through Queer River, he has collaborated with scientists, writers, and geographers, enabling the development of community engagement projects, interactive interpretation, artwork for exhibition, and written work for publication. Previous collaborators have included organisations such as Wessex Archaeology, the Environment Agency, the University of Glasgow, Bristol Medical School, British Canoeing, and the Nor-folk Rivers Trust.
James is currently researching Neuroqueer Ecologies, highlighting the value that sensory and processing differences bring to an understanding of ecosystems, in a time of climate and biodiversity crisis.