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George Moody

George Moody, All Roots Lead to You (photography, Paolina Hurry, courtesy Yorkshire Sculpture Park)

George Moody (they/them) is a Leeds-based artist working across bioart, installation, and sculpture. Their practice is grounded in queer ecology and material-led research, engaging ecological others already in states of collapse. Through foraged plant matter, polluted water, and organic materials prone to decay, they create works that remain entangled with processes of decomposition, mutation, and transformation. Collapse is approached not as an endpoint, but as a condition to work within—staying with what is breaking down, leaking, or changing.

With a background in scenography, Moody’s installations are often staged in low-light or darkened environments. Here, darkness operates as both a material and ethical condition, limiting full apprehension and resisting mastery over nonhuman, often microbiological others. By withholding clarity, their work unsettles human-centred perspectives and invites encounters shaped by instability, uncertainty, and re-enchantment.