Suzanne Dhaliwal

SUZANNE DHALIWAL

WHERE Croatia; UK
PEOPLE Suzanne Dhaliwal (b. Birmingham, UK, 1982)

One of the best-known figures in climate justice activism, Suzanne Dhaliwal develops creative strategies to fight the underrepresentation of indigenous population in climate justice movement in the UK. Dhaliwal is the co-founder of the UK Sand Network, an organization that studies the intersection of mining and the rights of indigenous populations. Using art – like the fullscale bus sculpture she made in cooperation with Nigerian-British artist Sokari Douglas Camp and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa – Dhaliwal promotes her own reasoned, disruptive form of protest against oil drilling investments in the Arctic and in Nigeria as well as the right to self-determination of indigenous people.

SIGNS

  • Green Tease: Decolonial Perspectives on Climate and Culture, 2022
  • All Eyes on Wet’suwet’en, Red Pepper, 2020
  • Bus (with artist Sokari Douglas Camp), Lagos, Nigeria, 2006
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