Zoë Laureen Palmer is an artist, writer and human ecologist whose award-winning work spans live performance, installation, text + participatory events. Her work has been programmed across the UK + internationally at venues including Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Minnesota Opera, The Royal Opera House and The National Theatre of Manheim.
Zoë’s regenerative practice explores embodied ecologies , spirituality, wellbeing + our relationship with the more than human world through a decolonial lens. She’s currently developing multispecies collaborations centring care, radical kinship + mundane rituals for dangerous times. Zoë was research assistant for Alastair McIntosh’s book Hell & High Water: Climate change, Hope and the Human Condition (Berlin, 2008) having completed her MSc Human Ecology thesis on Climate Change Narratives. In 2008 she co-founded The Golden Company - an award-winning social enterprise that addressed structural inequalities around access to nature for POC. In 2021 she co-created The Dream(ing) Field Lab rest retreat for womxn of colour and more recently has collaborated on Black Earth: Resistance, anti-racism and environment with Tiata Fahodzi. Credits as a presenter include The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Discovery), Fierce Earth (CBBC), Planet of the Apes (Discovery) and Treks in A Wild World (National Geographic).
A gentle beekeeper for over 15 years + practitioner of plant medicine, Zoë is cultivating an afrofuturist apothecary – a part real part speculative British African herb garden in response to climate breakdown. She is currently artist in residence at the arts admin canteen.