Sustainable Futures: artist talk with Gregory Herbert @ University of Salford

10 February 2025 / 4pm – 5pm / University of Salford, New Adelphi studio space / book your free ticket

Sustainable Futures Lecture Series is exploring the vast entanglement of interactions that organisms and non-human entities. Join artist Gregory Herbert for an artist talk and Q&A in the New Adelphi studio space at University of Salford to find out more about his work and approach to sustainable arts practice.

Gregory Herbert lives and works Liverpool. He will be discussing his practice in conversation with Liz Wewiora (MA Art and design programme leader at Salford and Head of Social Practice at Open Eye Gallery). Working across film, installation, and community action, Gregory Herbert seeks to explore the spaces between species. His practice centres on collaboration with both human and more-than-human participants, asking how we can engage and activate support within an ecosystem in a way that avoids extractivism, and looking instead to models of mutuality and solidarity. He will also discuss his current work as part of ‘It requires getting lost’ at Castlefield Gallery.

Gregory Herbert  is a former Director of The Royal Standard and completed his MA Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Herbert’s recent commissions include; Immersive Arts, The Hum (2025) At The Library, Inhale/Exhale (2024) Site Gallery, Collective Composting (2023) Bluecoat, Contours of the earth (2022) Rule of Threes, Winnowing Phase(2022) SheffieldDocFest, Exchange program, Making-With(2021) and FACT, Together, We Are Symbiotic (2020). Recent exhibitions include ‘Climate. Emergency. Hope’ Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (2023); ‘Archives at Play’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2022); ‘Earth Eaters’, Cole Projects, Hoxton 253 Project Space,London (2020); ‘The Cucumber Fell in the Sand’ at Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2019); MA Degree show, HOME, Manchester (2019).