God's House Tower Online Event: Artist Voices in Conversation with Alistair Debling, Dr Gordon Inglis and Mia Taylor

Event details

Zoom Online
7th May 2026
Thursday, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

This online event is part of the exhibition RAFTS by Alistair Debling. The exhibition will be on display from 20th March 2026 – 25th May 2026. GHT is open Thursday to Sunday every week. Free admission to Main Gallery Exhibitions.

Online Event: Artist Voices in Conversation with Alistair Debling, Dr Gordon Inglis and Mia Taylor

Thursday 7th May, 6pm – 8pm

Artist voices is a series of discussions and conversations that aim to support artist development by unpacking and demystifying key topics and issues of the visual arts ecology through discussion with artists and cultural workers.

For this event, we’ll be exploring the ideas and themes in Alistair Debling’s exhibition, RAFTS and discussing collaborations between art and science, particularly in relation to the climate.

This event will be hosted on Zoom. Details of how to join will be shared in the days leading up to the event via Eventbrite.

Please note: this talk will be recorded and uploaded to the ‘a space’ Youtube channel after the event.

About the speakers

Alistair Debling makes films, photographs, performances, meals and installations. His work investigates diverse fields, from queer nightlife and ecology to militarism, agriculture and architecture. Through sustained engagement with a particular community, he likes to discover unlikely connections between things: what does a nuclear power station have in common with a disco ball? A dairy cow with a canonised saint? A gay bar with a wild elephant? Recent projects have been commissioned and presented by Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness; Jwllrs, Morecambe; the Grundy Gallery, Blackpool; Grizedale Arts, Cumbria. Recent screenings include HOME, Manchester; Providenza, Corsica; Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Denmark; Atelier WG, Netherlands.

Dr Gordon Inglis is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Principal Research Fellow based in the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton. He studies climate-biogeochemistry interactions in past, present and future environments and specialises in the geochemical analysis of biomarkers (‘molecular fossils’). Biomarkers are organic compounds derived from a biological source organism and can be preserved in the sedimentary record for millions of years. Gordon has applied a biomarker approach to reconstruct climate and environmental change throughout Earth’s history.

Mia Taylor is an artist and the MA Art and Science course leader at Central Saint Martins. She has an interdisciplinary practice that includes writing, video, painting, object making and performance. Her work considers how different disciplines describe and represent the natural environment. She draws from a broad range of sources such as astronautics, oceanography, geology, alchemy and works with the symbolic systems they produce. Mia is interested in how forms of storytelling can speculate, obfuscate and communicate histories that are subjectively as well as objectively charged.

About the exhibition

RAFTS by Alistair Debling is a new exhibition commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower. The exhibition draws together data-driven climate research from Dr. Gordon Inglis at the University of Southampton and people-driven research from creative workshops with Rose Road to ask: what if climate change were reframed as an access and care issue? The resulting multimedia installation will flood the main gallery space at GHT, offering new strategies for staying afloat in the face of disaster.