Meet the Garden to Garden Competition Judging Panel
Posted on 11.08.2020
Meet our four judges for our Garden to Garden image competition – remember, deadline for entries is the 18th September 2020.
Melissa Minter, Scientist
Melissa Minter is a PhD student at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York. Her research focuses on the conservation genetics of the UK’s only mountain butterfly, the mountain ringlet, which is declining due to climate change. Prior to this she was a research assistant at Rothamsted Research working on the genetic mechanisms of insect migration, and she have also volunteered extensively for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust running bee walks and identification workshops.
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Feral Practice, Artist
Feral Practice, the lead artist on Garden to Garden, is an artist and researcher who works with human and nonhuman beings to create art projects and interdisciplinary events that develop ethical and imaginative connection across species boundaries. Often people set up a divide between human and nonhuman being, and between different categories of knowledge and understanding. Feral Practice aims to converse across these barriers. Their research draws on artistic, scientific and subjective knowledge practices to explore diverse aesthetics and create suggestive spaces of not knowing nature.
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Joe Wyatt, Environmental Youth Project Leader, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Joe joined Yorkshire Wildlife Trust over 4 years ago after working in youth empowerment. Joe seeks to help more young people (16 to 25) engage with nature here in the UK. Joe leads up the Tomorrow’s Natural Leader project, which each year takes on 24 young people top help them further their careers in the green sector and in return they help us engage more young people. Joe wanted to help people to see the amazing nature on their doorsteps so they can learn to respect it and help it grow.
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Jamie Johnson, RSPB Bempton Cliffs
Jamie currently works for the RSPB and has been based at RSPB Bempton Cliffs for the last 2 years. He has always had a passion for wildlife since a very young age. In his spare time his hobbies include: wildlife photography, moth trapping and walking his dog Matilda. This year he is also hoping to start training as a bird ringer.
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