Dr Prudence Gibson is Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Art and Design, UNSW.

 

She is Lead CI on the 2020-23 ARC Linkage grant Exploring the cultural value of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium collection using an environmental aesthetic.

 

Her area of research interest is Critical Plant Studies, a subset of Environmental Aesthetics, that addresses the crossover between plant science and art/narrative.

 

Specifically, she is best known for the way she weaves fictional elements or narrative threads into her scholarly publications.

 

She is author of:

 

2018 The Plant Contract, Brill, Boston.

 

2018 Covert Plants (editor) Punctum, San Diego

 

2016 Aesthetics After Finitude (editor) re.press, Melbourne.

 

2015 Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants, New South, Sydney.

 

2010 The Rapture of Death, Sydney

She is also author of over 300 catalogue essays, articles and papers.