Prudence Gibson is author of the Critical Plant Studies series book The Plant Contract (Brill Rudopi, 2018) and Lead Investigator of a major environmental aesthetics grant project 2020-23, in partnership with the Sydney Botanic Gardens Herbarium. She is Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of NSW, Sydney. Her particular field of study interrogates the crossover of plant life and art/narrative, and how this energetic interaction can improve human perception of vegetal life. She is author of several other monographs such as The Rapture of Death (2010); Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants (New South Publishing, 2015.) She co-edited Aesthetics After Finitude (Re.press, 2016) and Covert Plants (Punctum Books, 2018.) She has also published over 350 essays and articles for Art and Australia, The Conversation, Art Monthly and more, and has written many essays for art catalogues.

Check out "The Herbarium" - a short film written and produced by Prue ~ in collaboration with UNSW Art & Design industry partner The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and Bundanon Trust