Journal
Ideas, evidence and changing practice.
Essays and interviews that examine difficult questions, document practical progress and keep artistic meaning at the centre of the conversation.
Original analysis
Clear frameworks for understanding responsible practice.
New Sustainable Art editorial examines definitions, evidence, material decisions and the standards needed for credible environmental claims.
Definitions
What Sustainable Art Means, and Why Definitions Matter
A practical account of a term that is often used loosely, and the questions that help distinguish substance from presentation.
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Materials
Materials Are Evidence, Not the Whole Story
Why responsible material choices matter, and why artistic merit, longevity, context and behaviour matter too.
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Due diligence
How to Assess an Environmental Claim in Art
A calm framework for examining specificity, evidence, boundaries and continuous improvement without demanding perfection.
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Selected archive
Essays, interviews and critical perspectives.
31 selected articles, with their original authorship and publication dates preserved.
Ideas
Art and Empathy in Contemporary Visual Culture
By Claire-Julia Hill
Sculpture
Care as a Sculptural Language
By Claire-Julia Hill
Painting & materials
How Artists Transform Pollution into Colour
By Claire-Julia Hill
Sculpture
How Reclaimed Timber Carries Memory
By Claire-Julia Hill
Textiles & making
How Textile Art Changes Interior Spaces
By Claire-Julia Hill
Painting & materials
Why Traditional Painting Techniques Still Matter
By Claire-Julia Hill
Materials
Material Intelligence and Circular Design
By Claire-Julia Hill
Painting & materials
Natural Materials in Contemporary Oil Painting
By Claire-Julia Hill
Painting & materials
Painting Light Before It Disappears
By Claire-Julia Hill
Painting & materials
Painting the Hidden Life of the Earth
By Claire-Julia Hill
Ideas
Quiet as a Contemporary Artistic Value
By Claire-Julia Hill
Sculpture
The Future of Sculpture and Environmental Innovation
By Claire-Julia Hill
Textiles & making
The Poetry of Slow Making: Time, Material and Contemporary Art
By Claire-Julia Hill
Ecology
Can Art Change the Way We Think About the Environment?
By Claire-Julia Hill
Ecology
Climate Action Week: A Reflection
By Claire-Julia Hill
Ideas
Why Sustainability Should Be a Source of Artistic Innovation, Not a Restriction
By Claire-Julia Hill
Collecting
Stewardship, Not Ownership: Rethinking the Role of the Contemporary Art Collector
By Claire-Julia Hill
Painting & materials
Painting Clean Waters
By Claire-Julia Hill
Collecting
The Future of Collecting: Why Sustainability Will Sit Alongside Provenance and Artistic Merit
By Claire-Julia Hill
Materials
Sustainable Art: Beyond Materials, Towards a More Thoughtful Future
By Claire-Julia Hill
Practice
Are Art Schools Practicing Sustainability?
By Madeleine Chalmers
Ecology
Preserving the Arts and the Ecosystem
By Jennifer Mak
Ideas
The Art of Imagining Change
By Niklas Todt
Ecology
The Role of Nature in Art Making
By Millie Jeffery
Ideas
When Time Meets Ecology: The Shared Language of Slow and Sustainable Art
By Joseph Jenkinson
Textiles & making
Threads of Thought: Sienna Martz on Material and Meaning
By Rosalie Clément-Hennion
Materials
Material Matters: Rethinking the DNA of Contemporary Art
By Joseph Jenkinson
Textiles & making
Threads of Tradition: Sandra Junele Weaves Generations of Ancestral Sustainability into Contemporary Form
By Maxine Craig
Textiles & making
Unravelling Consumption: Saskia Saunders on Sustainability and Slow Making
By Saul Carlton
Painting & materials
Slow Painting in a Fast World: Miranda Carter’s Sustainable Practice
By Ella Weiss
Collecting
The Rise of the Sustainable Art Market
By Joseph Jenkinson
What belongs here
Work that adds knowledge rather than volume.
Original analysis. Clear thinking grounded in the realities of making, exhibiting, collecting and caring for art.
Artist interviews. Direct accounts of decisions, constraints, experiments and changes in practice.
Responsible archive. Valuable earlier work preserved with authorship and rights respected.