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About Professor Shona Illingworth
Shona Illingworth is a Danish-Scottish artist who works across film, photography, drawing and immersive video and multi-channel sound installation. Informed by her long-term interdisciplinary research collaborations into memory, landscape and processes of cultural erasure, her work examines the impact of accelerating geopolitical, technological and environmental change on the composition, nature and use of airspace and the implications for human rights. Solo exhibitions of her work have taken place at The Power Plant, Toronto (2022); les Abattoirs museum, Toulouse (2022); UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2016); and FACT, Liverpool (2015). She is Professor of Art, Film, and Media at the University of Kent, an Imperial War Museum Associate, and on the international editorial boards for Journal of Digital War and Memory, Mind and Media.