Iryna Zamuruieva

Researcher and artist

Iryna Zamuruieva is a researcher and artist interested in human-environmental relations. She writes, photographs, organises participatory projects, and translates. Zamuruieva is currently working on a PhD dissertation at the University of Oxford, where she continues to develop her project “A Field from Afar” – a rapeseed-focused investigation into the environmental history and political ecology of agriculture in Ukraine. Zamuruieva’s recent focus involves writing and making images with Adonis Vernalis and her kin-region, Geranium and the militarization of landscapes. She is interested in photography, feminist theory, ecocriticism and the concept of “nature” in literary and scientific thought. Zamuruieva has a decade of experience working at the intersection of research, climate policy, and creative practice. Originally from Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, she spent six years in Scotland, where she led projects on climate and land policy at the sustainability charity Verture. Before this she studied and worked in Kyiv and Berlin. She has recently been an artist in residence at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow, a research fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, the curator of an interdisciplinary art residency and of exhibitions at Climate Art Labs in Chernivtsi and Kyiv. She is a co-editor of the Ukrainian journal Commons.