EcologyNOW

Are humans the most important species and if so, do we deserve top spot?

‘EcologyNOW’ is a hybrid museum intervention exploring links between human Forensics and animal species to challenge the position of humans at the top of the classic evolution chain. Sculptures and drawings by artist Pamela Schilderman highlight the need for conservation in the face of extinction. Deliberately provocative, this project is the result of a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the artist.

Funded by Arts Council England through the National Lottery, AN Time, Space Money Artist Bursary, CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #15, MagGenome

 Pamela Schilderman is a Dutch-Brazilian artist born in Rotterdam in 1982, she lived in Rwanda before moving to the UK at the age of five. Since graduating from Goldsmiths University, London in 2004 she has exhibited nationally and done residencies in France, Holland, Wales and Finland. Pamela’s interdisciplinary practice is influenced by science and challenges preconceptions through definition and choice of media.