David Haley
Artist Profile
David makes art with ecology, to inquire and learn. He publishes, exhibits and works internationally with ecosystems and their inhabitants. He uses images, poetic texts, walking, video and sculptural installations to generate dialogues. These question the nexus of climate, species and cultural crises, urban development and transdisciplinarity for ‘critical recovery’, integral critical systems’ and ‘capable futures’.
David is one of the Place Collective artists in SEE HERE NOW, an exhibition that addresses the theme ‘Art in a Time of Urgency’. The exhibition will be open at Grizedale Forest Gallery, Friday 4th April to Sunday 8th June, 2025.
David also has a long history of working with Chrysalis Arts Development, based in North Yorkshire. Mapping Marton Wood is a slow art project led by Chrysalis Arts, that weaves together ecology and art, bringing artists, ecologists and the public together to explore a 6.6 hectare, local woodland. As part of this work, David is co-designing a project with artist Rebecca Chesney and Chrysalis Arts. Alongside this, David is developing proposals for a commissioned work.
Later this year, on Thursday 12 June 2025, David will be a keynote speaker at ‘An Unremarkable Wood’ Symposium. Presented by Chrysalis Arts Development and York St John University, this one-day symposium will explore creative relationships and processes that aim to reset connections with place, nature and artists’ responses to the ecological crisis. Find out more bout this symposium here.
