FUGITIVE EMISSIONS RESIDENCY

Fugitive Emissions is an annual residency at the Fitzwilliam Museum. As part of our commitment to exploring climate change and sustainability across our programming, this residency supports creative research, ideas development, and/or the production of work or knowledge that helps deepen understanding of the effects of climate change on communities locally, regionally, and globally in response to our collections, exhibitions and displays.

Artist and archaeologist-anthropologist Mercedes Baptiste Halliday was invited to participate in a residency that explored how climate justice, varied ecological practices and notions of belonging to the natural realm are understood, attended to and represented within and through the collection.

Mercedes Baptiste Halliday is a PhD researcher at the University of Oxford, focusing on Asante traditional architecture in Kumasi, Ghana and founder of ‘Black Archaeo’, an organisation that seeks to promote the health and well-being of Black and brown urban communities through archaeology, art and ecology.