Planetary health and Visual culture - David Cross

David Cross is an artist and Reader at UAL, engaging with the social-ecological crisis through visual culture. Recognizing the conflict between his internationalism and environmentalism, he stopped using jet travel in 2005. In 2012, following the Artist Placement Group, he designated his role at UAL as an artist’s placement, proposing that UAL switch to an ethical bank. With students, David campaigned for UAL to divest £3.9 million from fossil fuels, which in 2015 it pledged to do. David is now advocating that UAL integrates decarbonization and decolonisation as a start towards regenerative ecology and restorative social justice