Marina Velez

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Digital photography and image from Jon Jonstons’ book

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Digital photography and image from Jon Jonstons’ book

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Digital photography

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Digital collage

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Print on Child’s Drawing

Marina Velez (www.marinavelez.com)

Marina is an Argentinian-Spanish artist and researcher working across areas of contemporary art practices and sustainability. Marina is interested in people’s behaviour, the social construction of values and how these affect the protection or degradation of other species and their environment. In her practice, the idea of value and worth act as the emergent that highlights traceability of more complex issues, mainly related to the problematics of the Anthropocene.
Based in Cambridge. Marina is an associate artist at Anglia Ruskin University, Faculty of Arts, Laws and Social Sciences. She is the founder and organiser of Cambridge Sustainability Residency and the founder and curator of Sustainability Art Prize at Cambridge School of Art. Marina has co-edited two books about art and sustainability, MILK. and ROAR. She is a member of the Dalvazza Group at the Swiss Artistic Research Network. Marina has taken part in numerous artist in residence programmes in the UK and internationally.