Judy is an Environmental Artist and activist living in Plymouth, Britain’s Ocean City, with its extraordinary maritime history, and home to leading research into environmental issues from climate change and sustainability to microplastics polluting the oceans.

She aims to connect people emotionally with nature and environmental issues, to develop a sense of agency – we can ALL do something to help save our beautiful world for future generations.

Her work includes monoprints inspired by beach-combed plastic wrapped up with seaweeds. Is plastic becoming part of ‘nature’?

Plastic pollution is everywhere: in our streets, rivers and seas. A recent Greenpeace survey The Big Plastic Count revealed that around 100 BILLION pieces of plastic packaging are ‘thrown away’ by households in the UK each year, with only 12% recycled in the UK. The rest is exported to other countries to deal with (17%), buried in landfill (25%) or incinerated (45%).

The Insatiables are made from plastic packaging, reflecting on the fact that plastic is now in our bodies, through the water we drink, the food that we eat and the air that we breathe…

The Insatiables were at Market Hall, Plymouth in May 2024 for the Drawn to the Valley Spring Exhibition, at Tucker’s Maltings, Newton Abbot June 2024 where they formed part of ACT with the Arts Climate Festival and at Royal William Yard for Plymouth Art Weekender Oct 2024 alongside plastic milk bottle ‘ammonites’ (see below) and the haunting film Unnatural Tides.