Climate House by Keg de Souza

Australian artist Keg de Souza transforms Inverleith House – the primary exhibition venue at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – into ‘Climate House’ to highlight the global risk to biodiversity through an immersive installation, activated as a space for conversation and action.

Keg de Souza has previously had major exhibitions in Melbourne, New York, Vancouver and London and is known for her socially engaged art practice, using mediums such as inflatable and temporary architecture, food, video, text, illustration, mapping and dialogical projects to explore the politics of space. Collaboration is central to de Souza’s practice and the new vision for Inverleith House. ‘Climate House’ will inspire connections between artists, scientists, horticulturists, scholars, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers and visitors and local communities.

It is supported by Outset Contemporary Art Fund’s Transformative Grant and the Australian Government and the British Council as part of the UK/Australia Season.

More about the artist

Keg de Souza is an artist of Goan ancestry who lives and works on Gadigal land and explores the politics of space through temporary architecture, food, mapping and dialogues. Influenced by lived experiences of her ancestral lands being colonised to now living as a settler on unceded land, architectural training and radical spaces through squatting Keg’s projects centre voices from the margins, for learning about Place. Keg is a PhD Candidate at Wominjeka Djeembana; MADA, Monash University.