ecology : ideas : art : science : memory : forever : now

Aviva Reed is a transdisciplinary visual ecologist. Her practice reframes scientific theories, through an eco philosophical lens, thinking with deep time and ecological categorisations that shape worldmaking. Her work moves between performance, ritual, lecture, publications, social practice, and visual art. She explores time, scale and relationship using storytelling, visualisations, soundscapes and conversation.

Aviva co- created Esk Studio in 2023 in collaboration with artist, Al Stark. Esk studio is a multi-disciplined artist run initiative with a focus on environmental conservation, education and community through an arts lens. She is also a core member of the Small Friends Books team (CSIRO Publishing), as well as co-designer and facilitator of  workshops inspired by these award-winning publications. These books explore the world of microbes.  She published, "Eon, the Story of the Fossils", in 2017. This illustrated book explores what we can learn from billions of years of being part of an evolving ecosystem.  Aviva uses techniques such as art making, storytelling, and hands on ecoliteracy to explore complexity.

Aviva is of German Jewish and Irish Scottish settler ancestry, currently living and working on the lands of the Yaegl peoples. She received her Bachelor of Science in 2006 from the University of Tasmania and her Masters of Environment from the University of Melbourne in 2015. Her research thesis ‘A Symbiosis of Pedagogies’, explored ecological ontologies through the science and art nexus. She completed her PhD through Creative Arts and Literature in 2025, with a thesis that contests categorisation in ecological sciences by using an arts praxis to think with/ as Carbon.

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I would like to acknowledge First Nation peoples worldwide, who with ongoing determination and care, speak for ways of living based on the deepest respect and reverence of life on Earth. I would particularly like to acknowledge the Yaegl peoples of whose country I reside upon. I acknowledge their ongoing commitment to caring for country amidst the damaging impacts of colonisation and exploitation. I would also like to acknowledge my ancestors, human and more than human, who have traversed through time, forging the relationships that have given me the opportunity to be part of life; the ancient calcium of fish bones, the oxygen from carboniferous forests and the ongoing solar rays that shape the world and importantly, I would like to acknowledge the rich, deep evolution of planet earth and its ongoing fluxes and flows of creation and decay through time, with time, of which I am a product of.