Founded in 2009 by Artistic Director Alice Sharp, Invisible Dust creates new thinking to address urgent climate futures through ambitious collaborations between leading artists and scientists.
We inspire UK and global audiences to engage with critical environmental issues through contemporary art commissions, events, and pioneering scientific ideas.
Currently working in Brazil, Turkey, Finland, France and the UK. Notable artists include Elizabeth Price, Gayle Chong Kwan, Dryden Goodwin, Wangechi Mutu, Jeremy Deller, Mat Collishaw, Tania Kovats, John Akomfrah, Raqs Media Collective and Zineb Sedira. Collaborating scientists and institutions include Oulu University (Finland), Future Earth (Canada), Istanbul University (Turkey), Sydney Environment Institute (Australia), the University of Hull (UK), the Natural History Museum, and Imperial College London (UK).
Our projects
Invisible Dust projects 2026 include:
- The Ocean’s Edge / Litoral do Limite led by Pivô (Brazil) and Invisible Dust (UK) with TBA21–Academy (Spain) explores the future of the Brazilian and UK Atlantics, with artists Letícia Ramos (Brazil), Licida Vidal (Brazil) and Alberta Whittle (UK).
- Invisible Dust is curating Climate Clock, a flagship programme of Oulu2026, Finland. A permanent public art trail intertwining art, science and nature to inspire environmental awareness and reconnect us with nature’s time. Artists Ranti Bam (Nigeria/UK), Rana Begum (Bangladesh/UK), Takahiro Iwasaki (Japan), Gabriel Kuri (Mexico/Belgium), Antti Laitinen (Finland), Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (Finland; Germany/Finland) and SUPERFLEX (Denmark).
- Wild Eye inspiring art and nature programme celebrating the North Yorkshire Coast’s remarkable wildlife and marine environment.
- Invisible Dust works across the UK and internationally.
Staff
Corinn works part-time for Invisible Dust as Bookkeeper, overseeing the day-to-day finances of the charity. She is a chartered accountant and has held finance roles for both large and small-scale companies and currently runs a freelance portfolio comprising one business and four charities.
Corinn Billington
Bookkeeper
Holly Willats is an independent curator, writer and researcher based on the North York Moors. Holly likes to work with artists on projects that promote DIY cultures, community building, and interdependent networks. Holly has worked freelance for arts organisations such as Artquest, MIMA, and Delfina Foundation. Alongside her role at Invisible Dust, she runs the project Art Licks (2010-ongoing), which has encompassed festivals, a long-standing magazine, exhibitions and most recently, artist residencies.
Holly Willats
Associate Producer
Mariam works with Invisible Dust as a Senior Associate to support management and strategy. She brings substantial experience from both the arts and science in sustainability, international partnerships and commercial sector. She started her own consultancy CulturalSIX in 2010, working with organisations across the cultural and creative industries within the UK and internationally including in Europe, USA, Latin America and East Africa. Previously she worked at the Arts Council of England as Head of Visual Arts and Literature in South West England, in the London and National offices.
Mariam Sharp
Senior Associate
Founding Invisible Dust in 2009 to make the invisible visible, Alice is curating ‘Climate Clock’ for Oulu26 Finland, EU Capital of Culture. New projects are Europe-wide and across Brazil, Turkey and India. Alice was selected for the British Council Malaysia ‘Human Nature’ Delegation in 2024. Her presentations include at Columbia University New York 2023, Davos 2020, UNDP and Canada Council 2019. Invisible Dust has worked with Margaret Atwood, Christiana Figueres, China Miéville, Ben Okri, Joan Jonas, Elizabeth Price, Shezad Dawood, Jeremy Deller, Yinka Shonibare, Dryden Goodwin and Cornelia Parker. Scientists include The University of Oulu & The University of Helsinki, Imperial College London and Istanbul University. Alice has independently curated Mat Collishaw at Borusan Istanbul ...
Alice Sharp
Artistic Director
Lucy is an experienced creative producer specialising in art-science and climate change programmes, with 12+ years experience creating high-impact public engagement events and installations across the UK. She is an associate producer for a number of clients including Julie’s Bicycle, Invisible Dust and The Arts Development Company, following her previous position as UK Director of the international environmental arts charity, Cape Farewell. Lucy was lead producer of ‘Under Her Eye‘ Invisible Dust’s Summit and Arts Festival at the British library in June 2018, headlined by booker prize winning Margaret Atwood.
Lucy Wood
Associate Art Science Producer
Trustees
Gillean started her career in the exhibition department of CCA, Glasgow, followed by production and management roles in the performing arts and film, including with Merchant Ivory Productions, Blast Theory and Imlata Dance Company. As Producer with The Arts Catalyst she realised themed exhibitions and ambitious artist projects in a wide range of contexts, including museums, galleries, abandoned and former military sites, and public spaces. Gillean has produced many artist commissions including notable projects by Aleksandra Mir, The Otolith Group, Marko Peljhan, Tomas Saraceno, Ashok Sukumaran, Critical Art Ensemble and Agnes Meyer Brandis. Gillean studied Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and Arts Management at City University, London.
Gillean Dickie
Director of Operations at Delfina Foundation
Ansuman Biswas has an international, interdisciplinary practice which has included directing Shakespeare, translating Tagore, designing underwater sculptures in the Red Sea, living with wandering minstrels in India, being employed as an ornamental hermit in the English countryside, touring with Björk in New York, surviving blindfolded in an unknown place, travelling with nomadic shamans in the Gobi Desert, playing with Oasis, collaborating with neuroscientists in Arizona, living for a week with nothing but what spectators chose to give him, singing for 24 hours non-stop, organising grassroots activists in Soweto, trapping himself in a box for ten days with no food or light, creating a musical in a maximum security prison, doing R&D for Hewlett-Packard, being a soloist with the Londo...
Ansuman Biswas
International interdisciplinary arts
Yuki is an all-round creative with a passion for art, architecture and design. She has over 20 years of experience specialising in architectural communications, as well as curating exhibitions, lecturing and writing about art and architecture. Yuki has a BA in Fine Art from Central St Martins and an MA in Architectural History and Theory from UCL Bartlett. Her MA thesis, “Architecture of Air,” completed soon after the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, dealt with a theme similar to that championed by Invisible Dust, asserting that architecture has a role to play in making the invisible – often invested with secrecy and power – visible.
Yuki Sumner
Architectural PR, Curator and Producer
Sue has been a curator and writer in the visual arts for nearly three decades, including long-term roles as Curator of Chisenhale Gallery in London, and Director of Whitstable Biennale. She is currently archiving the Biennale which had its last edition in 2022, and working on new curatorial and writing projects. She regularly lectures and gives talks, and is a trustee for Invisible Dust and the Stuart Croft Foundation.
Sue Jones
Curator and writer
Fiona has 20 years of experience in managing public realm projects and coordinating outstanding young people’s projects. She provides support on the development of our education strategy and best practice.
Fiona Fieber
Head of Learning and Participation at SPACE Studios
Magnus is an environmental marine biologist with interests in fisheries, krill and coral reefs. He leads the MSc in Environmental Change Management and Monitoring for the University of Hull and is a Fellow of the Marine Biological Association.