Robbie Coleman & Jo Hodges
Artists in Residence
Based in: Scotland
Participated in: Evia International Residency
Coleman & Hodges are public artists based in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, working in collaboration on trans-disciplinary public art works. Their work investigates ecological and socio-cultural systems, processes, relationships and change. Their interests span speculative futures, adaptation and resilience, global relationships to the local, participatory culture and the role of art in social and ecological change.
Their practice is based on research, experimentation and collaboration and the resulting work takes many forms, including temporary and permanent works, site-specific installations, socially engaged and participatory processes and explorations of new strategies for working in public space. They are Creator Directors of The Museums of the FutureNow and Sanctuary Lab.
Six Bowls: Ecologies of Resistance, 2025
Six Bowls: Ecologies of Resistance is a participatory installation developed through research on Evia.
Using six elemental materials – water, air, burnt wood, honey, stone, and silt – the work invites sensory engagement, collective reflection, and political imagination.
Framed through nine possible “uses,” including a Planning Tool for Evia and an Oracle for the Age of Extractivism, the installation becomes a space for dialogue, memory, and speculative futures.
Blending critique, poetics, systems-thinking, and a touch of anarcho-magic, Six Bowls explores ecological entanglement and resilience through playful, layered encounters.
Campfire Tales, 2025
Burnt wood, rope.
Six bundles of kindling to light six campfires at a point in the future – each carrying a proposition to ignite a conversation.
These bundles collected from within the fire zone in Northern Evia, hold reflections gathered during the artists time on the island. Shaped by the hopes, fears, and imaginings of both rural and urban lives they are offered in the spirit of continuing dialogue.
In a landscape marked by devastating wildfires, fire is reclaimed as a source of warmth, light, and connection.
Around the campfire’s circular, democratic glow, space is made for open exchange – for speaking and listening, sharing histories, imagining futures, and strengthening the social fabric that binds us.
