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Louise Purbrick is a Tutor in Design History at the Royal College of Art (RCA), affiliated with the School of Arts & Humanities and the Sites & Situations Research Cluster. Her work explores material culture, extractivism, incarceration, and migration, with a focus on decolonizing pedagogy. She investigates global hierarchies of material resources and collaborates with activists and communities on projects like Traces of Nitrate, documenting the socio-environmental impacts of nitrate and lithium mining in Chile. Her current research, Solid Water, Frozen Time, Future Justice, examines copper and lithium extraction in the Andes through photography and spatial analysis.
Purbrick’s practice includes art for protests and participatory exhibitions, such as Re-Making Picasso’s Guernica and Radio Calais. She coordinates After the Object: A Reader for Decolonising Histories of Art and Design and has authored books like A History of the H Blocks (2023). Her grants include AHRC funding for Traces of Nitrate (2012–15) and Solid Water (2021–2024). Exhibitions include Trafficking the Earth (2021–2022) and Broken Land in Intersectional Geographies (2022).
She advises PhD student Joana Silvano Alves Albernaz Delgado and engages in interdisciplinary collaborations to address colonial legacies and environmental justice.
