From speculative storytelling to radical repair, the programme looks beyond binary thinking. It challenges us to sit with complexity, to acknowledge the uneven impacts of climate change and to imagine a pluriverse – a world where many ways of living, knowing and healing can co-exist.
This free exhibition features the works of three internationally acclaimed female photographers:
Poisoned Futures? is spread across three locations – the Hundred Heroines Photo Museum in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire; Miles Marling Field (Forest Green); King George V Playing Fields (Nailsworth) as well as being the first exhibition in the newly launched Art Garden, a vibrant space dedicated to showcasing contemporary art, in Mortimer Gardens.
During the Poisoned Futures? programme, much of the museum space has been transformed to host this major exhibition and its accompanying events. While the main space is currently dedicated to the project, you can still explore highlights from our collection, which are on display downstairs.
Looking for something specific? We’re happy to help. Whether you’re interested in contemporary photographers, early pioneers of the 19th and 20th centuries, or would like to dive into one of our specialist archives – such as the work of Elisabeth Buchmeyer-Lewis or Felicia Cronin – just drop us a line at hello@hundredheroines.org and we’ll do our best to arrange access.
We’re always glad to open the drawers for photography enthusiasts!
These award-winning artists explore the complex global entanglements of climate change, environmental justice and human survival. The exhibition challenges the idea that climate action is ever simple or consequence-free. While some communities celebrate small gains toward sustainability, others are paying the hidden costs – through exploitation, displacement or environmental destruction.
Gulshan Khan is an independent South African photographer based in Johannesburg. Noted for her photojournalism work focused on social justice identity and human rights development, Gulshan’s work engages in multi-layered themes around representations of identities in South Africa which inform her visual practice.
Laura El-Tantawy is an award winning British/Egyptian documentary photographer, book maker & educator. Investigating notions of home and belonging, Laura routinely approaches her work from a social and environmental sensibility drawing on her transatlantic background. Her visual explorations often intertwine moving images, sound, and personal narratives, marked by the artist’s lyrical eye on reality.
Lisl Ponger is a Vienna-based visual artist whose work concerns stereotypes, racism, and the construction of the gaze. Through her photography, film, and installations, Lisl works across a variety of disciplines including visual art, art history, and ethnography. During lockdown she curated a weekly online film festival covering an eclectic range of topics from robots, LGBTQ+ rights to climate change and male violence.
Poisoned Futures? Dates for the Diary
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