Harriet Fraser is a creative geographer, bringing poetry, installation art and the curation of multi-disciplinary gatherings to work connected with environmental concerns. She collaborates with her partner, photographer Rob Fraser, through their practice ‘somewhere nowhere’. In 2023, the Frasers were recipients of the Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award, for discipline-crossing work in rural landscapes.
Upland farming and land management is a particular focus, but over the past fifteen years interdisciplinary projects have been concerned with trees, natural flood management, analysis of change, and better integration of knowledge systems in tackling the polycrisis of the early 21st century.
In 2021 the Frasers established the Place Collective in association with the Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas, working from the University of Cumbria. This brings more than forty artists together to share knowledge and practice, and to work together in collaboration with scientists and land managers in better understanding, discussing, and addressing issues around environmental and landscape care.
Harriet is in the last phases of her PhD: Rethinking environmental and landscape r/evolution: using art as a tool for critical enquiry. Poetry is a craft that is always evolving, finding its way into the landscape, and inviting multiple collaborators, and it’s a joy to bring it into discussions and provocations about human actions and responsibilities in the entanglement of life.
