Hermione Spriggs is a coordinator of swarms, infestations and multispecies exchanges. She takes a creative-critical stance towards the purification of Nature in art, probing our boundary-making structures and engaging with the Maintenance Arts of humans and other animals to explore new forms for relating. Hermione's work moves between live art, film and social sculpture, drawing from histories of decolonial anthropology and environmental art. She is one half of BARBARB, a land-based community of practice led with tracker-forager Tamara Colchester.
Hermione's recent PhD (UCL Anthropology/ Slade School of Fine Art) probes questions of capture and regeneration through collaborative art-making with traditional molecatchers and other unlikely stewards of the land. Her art-anthropological practice has been supported internationally through residencies, commissions, exhibitions and fellowships funded by arts councils, foundations, cultural and academic institutions, recently including ASFF (Listening Pitch Prize 2026), Photoworks (2026), Spike Island Bristol (2026), CRASHH Cambridge (2024), Cafe Oto (2024), Frye Museum Seattle (2024), Latitude Festival (2023), Hypha Studios (2023) and Sheffield Docfest (2022), with two permanent public artworks newly commissioned for the city of Cambridge. Her writing is published through scholarly and artist-run platforms. From 2016-2018 Hermione joined Emerging Subjects, an ERC-funded project investigating human responses to mineral extraction in post-boom Mongolia, resulting in new commissions, an acclaimed exhibition at greengrassi & Corvi-Mora, an events series with Arts Catalyst, and the edited publication Five Heads: Art, Anthropology and Mongol-Futurism (H. Spriggs ed., Sternberg Press, 2018). She is currently working on a 16mm film "Worm Grunting" and is a visiting Artist Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
hermione.spriggs@gmail.com
Hermione Spriggs is a coordinator of swarms, infestations and multispecies exchanges. She takes a creative-critical stance towards the purification of Nature in art, probing our boundary-making structures and engaging with the Maintenance Arts of humans and other animals to explore new forms for relating. Hermione's work moves between live art, film and social sculpture, drawing from histories of decolonial anthropology and environmental art. She is one half of BARBARB, a land-based community of practice led with tracker-forager Tamara Colchester.
Hermione's recent PhD (UCL Anthropology/ Slade School of Fine Art) probes questions of capture and regeneration through collaborative art-making with traditional molecatchers and other unlikely stewards of the land. Her art-anthropological practice has been supported internationally through residencies, commissions, exhibitions and fellowships funded by arts councils, foundations, cultural and academic institutions, recently including ASFF (Listening Pitch Prize 2026), Photoworks (2026), Spike Island Bristol (2026), CRASHH Cambridge (2024), Cafe Oto (2024), Frye Museum Seattle (2024), Latitude Festival (2023), Hypha Studios (2023) and Sheffield Docfest (2022), with two permanent public artworks newly commissioned for the city of Cambridge. Her writing is published through scholarly and artist-run platforms. From 2016-2018 Hermione joined Emerging Subjects, an ERC-funded project investigating human responses to mineral extraction in post-boom Mongolia, resulting in new commissions, an acclaimed exhibition at greengrassi & Corvi-Mora, an events series with Arts Catalyst, and the edited publication Five Heads: Art, Anthropology and Mongol-Futurism (H. Spriggs ed., Sternberg Press, 2018). She is currently working on a 16mm film "Worm Grunting" and is a visiting Artist Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
hermione.spriggs@gmail.com