Clare Nattress

Teaching

I teach on the following:

• Graphic Design Principles
• Graphic Design Process
• Context of Practice
• Graphic Design Practice 1

Ethics Committee Member - School of the Arts 
Athena Swan Institutional Co-Lead

Research

In 2018, I sold all of my possessions and cycled in parts of the globe for a year, mainly living in a tent and carrying everything I needed on my bike. Having lived a minimalist lifestyle over the past few years, this year-long project raised further significant questions regarding the environment and air pollution. Cycling and air pollution have now become a basis for art-making and practice-based research. My PhD thesis is entitled "How can cycling be a performative art methodology to investigate, reveal, and disseminate the problem of air pollution?" 

My collaborator Dr Daniel Bryant and I have recently created www.yorkairmap.org - a resource to see ground/street level air pollution data in York.

Publications and Conferences

Selected History 

Works & Exhibition Record

• 2023 York Air Map, BrewYork Exhibition Space, York. 
• 2023 Toxic Truths. Re-fill Micro Exhibition, York. 
• 2022 Art-Science Interface. Blossom Street Gallery, York.
• 2021 York Creatives Winter Zine, York, UK. 
• 2021 York Design Week, Cycle Heaven, York, UK.
• 2021 The Flux Review V1 Exhibition. London. UK
• 2021 Interim Arts. Online Virtual Gallery. UK.
• 2021 Artists Responding to….Issue 7 Zine Library. UK.
  
  

Bibliography & Featured Press 

• 12/08/2023 Ground-breaking new map of York air pollution reveals ‘shocking’ hotspots. York Mix, Published August 2023.
• 14/07/2023 York Air Map. Art meets Science to to reveal York’s air pollution. Air Quality News, Published July 2023.
• 12/07/2023 York Air Map reveals air pollution in the city at exhibition. York Press, Published July 2023. 
• 25/04/2023 Artists responding to..Issue 6 Featured Artist. Published April 2023. 
• 28/06/2022 “When art bonds with science and cycling meets pollution head on, a frontier-pushing exhibition results at Blossom Street Gallery” Charles Hutchinson Press.  
• 01/06/2022 ‘We aim to make York’s air pollution visible’ – Unique partnership to reveal unhealthy hotspots. YorkMix, UK.
• 01/04/2022 Featured in On Air. Performance Research Journal, Publication, UK.
• 28/03/2022 Art as a Catalyst for Scientific Discovery, YSJ Blog. 
• 20/01/2022 NERC Discipline Hopping. University of York, UK. 
• 02/11/2021 Airpocalypse - COP26 Blog. Institute for Social Justice. York St John University, UK. 
• 25/10/2021 Coast-to-Coast Exhibition, Bikepacking.com
• 22/10/2021 York Design Week - Pollution Bike. 
• 01/08/2021 Bikepacking - Exploring the Roads Less Cycled. gestalten. 

Funding Awards & Certificates 

• 24/03/2023 Participation Research Fund, University of York, UK. 
• 24/03/2023 YESI Knowledge Exchange Fellows Scheme. University of York, UK. 
• 01/01/2022 NERC Funding Award. The art-science interface in collaboration with the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, York University, UK. 

Professional Service Conferences & Talks 

• 06/08/23 Interviewed on BBC Radio York, Leeds, Humberside & Sheffield. Available on BBC Sounds 1h 15 minutes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0g019bb
• 22/04/2023 Delivered Talk & Q&A. Re-fill. York. 
• 23/05/2022 Delivered Talk & Abstract. EGU General Assembly 2022. Vienna, Austria. 
• 28/03/2022 doing-reflecting-reading-articulating-doing: RESEARCH Lisa Stansbie and Clare Nattress in Conversation, Leeds Beckett University. 
• 01/04/2022 Featured in On Air. Performance Research Journal, Publication, UK.
• 28/03/2022 In conversation with Professor Lisa Stansbie.‘doing-reflecting-reading-articulating-doing: RESEARCH’ Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. 
• 2022 Delivered Talk. Leeds School of Arts Doctoral Student Symposium. Leeds Beckett University, UK. 
• 23/03/2022 Delivered Talk & Abstract. Trauma & Cycling Symposium. Lancaster University, UK. 
• 01/03/2022 Delivered Talk. Ph.D. Research. Postgraduate Students. York St John University, UK
• 05/02/2022 Attended Talk. Kate Fletcher. Fashion & Nature. In & Out Lecture Series
• 24/01/2022 Attended Talk. Following The Breath Panel Discussion. Barbican, UK. 
• 17/11/2021 Ecological Research Group Symposium presentation. York St John University, UK. 
• 22/10/2021 York Design Week, Cycle Heaven, York, UK.

Publications and Conferences, continued

Academic Papers

Nattress, C. & Bryant, D., (2023) “Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions: An Art-Science Collaboration”, Active Travel Studies 3(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16997/ats.1398 Traditional Copyright © All rights reserved.

The art-science interface: making York's air pollution visible. 
Written in March 2022 by Daniel Bryant, Clare Nattress, and Jacqui Hamilton. Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK & Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. [EGU General Assembly 2022] https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5038 © Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Airpocalypse: How can cycling be used as a performative art methodology to investigate, reveal, and disseminate the problem of air pollution? 
Written in May 2021 [Performance Research Journal] On Air Volume 26 Issue 7. Issue editors: Evelyn O'Malley & Chloe Preedy. Published 18th June 2022 by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd. © Centre for Performance Research Ltd. 

Permanent Collections 

• 2023 The Bodleian Library Oxford University.
• 2023 Cambridge University Library.
• 2023 National Library of Scotland.
• 2023 National Library of Wales.
• 2023 Trinity College Dublin.
• 2023 Hull Zine Library Collection. 
• 2022 The British Library Collection. 

Curated Projects & Events 

• 2023 Curated York Air Map, BrewYork, Walmgate, York, UK. 
• 2022 Curated Art Science Interface, Blossom Street Gallery, York, UK. 
• 2021 Curated ‘Coast to Coast’ Cycle Heaven, York, UK. 

Professional Activities

My research and practice allow me to present at conferences and write journal articles, and publications for book chapters. I recently presented a paper at the EGU General Assembly Conference 2022 in Vienna, Austria with colleagues from the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories (WACL) Bryant, D, and Hamilton, J entitled "The art-science interface: making York's air pollution visible". I have exhibited work since 2009 including four solo shows.

As of late, I have had a work published in Performance Research Journal On Air Volume 26 Issue 7 entitled Airpocalypse: How can cycling be used as a performative art methodology to investigate, reveal, and disseminate the problem of air pollution? as well as Active Travel Studies journal and an upcoming book chapter entitled Mountain Biking Ecologies.