Mo Langmuir is a multi-disciplinary practitioner using social art to explore being human on a shared planet. Informed by a background in environmental biology, her practice responds to the so-called Enlightenment, a time when Western thinking separated humans from nature, art from science and the body from the mind.
Mo often works with the formats and tools that were used to facilitate these ideological separations, such as mapping and museology, towards pluralising and re-enchanting the scientific with the hyperlocal, through critical engagement and exploration. Referring to open-source and relational methodologies, often informed by Indigenous and decolonial knowledge systems, her works observe the interconnected nature of the environment and multiplicity of source, including landscape, folklore, lived experience, sampling, written word, music and sound. Her projects manifest in a way that is led by the collaboration, but typically result in drawing, textiles and land art.
Mo has won support from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Arts Council England, Climate Art, DEFRA, Makerversity, Near Now, University of Nottingham and The Institute for Art and Innovation. Past collaborations include Chaos Magic, Ignite Futures!, FOSAC [Festival of Science and Curiosity], NGFP [Nottingham Good Food Partnership], Public Lab for Open Technology and Science, Rye’s Own, Sussex Wildlife Trust and The Urban Room.
Mo is born and based in London, working internationally on a project basis.
CV.pdf
Residencies
[2024] Artist-in-residence at the conference "Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia, and Semiotics of Recovery", Tartu [EE] - 1 week
[2023] ARC Bucharest [RO] - 3 months
[2023] Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart [DE]- 7 months
[2022] Creative Collaborators: three year ACE initiative for artist residencies in schools to work with teachers and students on embedding more creativity into the UK cross-curriculum, Nottingham [UK]
[2021] Climate Art: A Vanished Sea, Rye [UK] - 3 months
[2020] Makerversity, Somerset House, London [UK] - 3 months
[2019] Earth Day residency with Near Now ~ re-formed due to pandemic [online]
[2019] Dovecote School Scientist-In-Residence, Nottingham [UK] - 3 months
Exhibitions
[2025] East London Arts Prize Shortlist exhibition - Nunnery gallery, London [UK]
[2024] Solartal ~ group exhibition on tanning, shades and spirits - Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim [DE]
[2024] Missing ~ group exhibition exploring the cultural meaning of endangerment to bring to public attention aspects of extinction through artistic means - Kunstimaja, Tartu [EE]
[2024] Awaken ~ with Artlink Inshowen - group public art exhibition in Swan Park to signify the changing of the seasons into Spring, Buncrana, [Ireland]
[2023] Nottingham Weather Station ~ a public art comission for Nottingham Green Festival, interpreting research on how people in the city feel about climate change into sound piece + installation, Nottingam [UK]
[2023] Available Currently ~ group exhibition on critical mediation in art, Stuttgart [Germany]
[2023] Naturalia Artificalia ~ Wunderkammer, Stuttgart [Germany] ~ solo exhibition with Towards Spp. Citizenship
[2022] Open Studio ~ Grenville Workshops, London [UK] ~ group exhibition
[2022] Celebrating Sanctuary ~ Refugee Week, Horniman Museum and Gardens, London [UK] ~ group exhibition
[2021] A Vanished Sea ~ Bridgepoint Arts Centre, Rye [UK] ~ group exhibition
[2019] The View From Above ~ Broadway Arts Centre Nottingham [UK] ~ solo exhibition
Awards
[2025] Shortlisted: The East London Arts Prize, Bow Arts
[2023] Shortlisted: Women in Science Photography Award, International Prize
[2021] Social Art Award Third Prize, The Institute for Art and Innovation ~ International Social Art prize
[2019] Shortlisted: Flickers for the Future, BAFTA, Global Action Plan and Richard Curtis ~ screenplay on positive environmental futures
[2019] Research Fellowship with the Public Lab for Open Technology and Science on balloon mapping
[2017] JD Irvins Memorial Travel Scholarship, University of Nottingham ~ to participate in socio-ecological research on the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Mo often works with the formats and tools that were used to facilitate these ideological separations, such as mapping and museology, towards pluralising and re-enchanting the scientific with the hyperlocal, through critical engagement and exploration. Referring to open-source and relational methodologies, often informed by Indigenous and decolonial knowledge systems, her works observe the interconnected nature of the environment and multiplicity of source, including landscape, folklore, lived experience, sampling, written word, music and sound. Her projects manifest in a way that is led by the collaboration, but typically result in drawing, textiles and land art.
Mo has won support from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Arts Council England, Climate Art, DEFRA, Makerversity, Near Now, University of Nottingham and The Institute for Art and Innovation. Past collaborations include Chaos Magic, Ignite Futures!, FOSAC [Festival of Science and Curiosity], NGFP [Nottingham Good Food Partnership], Public Lab for Open Technology and Science, Rye’s Own, Sussex Wildlife Trust and The Urban Room.
Mo is born and based in London, working internationally on a project basis.
CV.pdf
Residencies
[2024] Artist-in-residence at the conference "Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia, and Semiotics of Recovery", Tartu [EE] - 1 week
[2023] ARC Bucharest [RO] - 3 months
[2023] Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart [DE]- 7 months
[2022] Creative Collaborators: three year ACE initiative for artist residencies in schools to work with teachers and students on embedding more creativity into the UK cross-curriculum, Nottingham [UK]
[2021] Climate Art: A Vanished Sea, Rye [UK] - 3 months
[2020] Makerversity, Somerset House, London [UK] - 3 months
[2019] Earth Day residency with Near Now ~ re-formed due to pandemic [online]
[2019] Dovecote School Scientist-In-Residence, Nottingham [UK] - 3 months
Exhibitions
[2025] East London Arts Prize Shortlist exhibition - Nunnery gallery, London [UK]
[2024] Solartal ~ group exhibition on tanning, shades and spirits - Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim [DE]
[2024] Missing ~ group exhibition exploring the cultural meaning of endangerment to bring to public attention aspects of extinction through artistic means - Kunstimaja, Tartu [EE]
[2024] Awaken ~ with Artlink Inshowen - group public art exhibition in Swan Park to signify the changing of the seasons into Spring, Buncrana, [Ireland]
[2023] Nottingham Weather Station ~ a public art comission for Nottingham Green Festival, interpreting research on how people in the city feel about climate change into sound piece + installation, Nottingam [UK]
[2023] Available Currently ~ group exhibition on critical mediation in art, Stuttgart [Germany]
[2023] Naturalia Artificalia ~ Wunderkammer, Stuttgart [Germany] ~ solo exhibition with Towards Spp. Citizenship
[2022] Open Studio ~ Grenville Workshops, London [UK] ~ group exhibition
[2022] Celebrating Sanctuary ~ Refugee Week, Horniman Museum and Gardens, London [UK] ~ group exhibition
[2021] A Vanished Sea ~ Bridgepoint Arts Centre, Rye [UK] ~ group exhibition
[2019] The View From Above ~ Broadway Arts Centre Nottingham [UK] ~ solo exhibition
Awards
[2025] Shortlisted: The East London Arts Prize, Bow Arts
[2023] Shortlisted: Women in Science Photography Award, International Prize
[2021] Social Art Award Third Prize, The Institute for Art and Innovation ~ International Social Art prize
[2019] Shortlisted: Flickers for the Future, BAFTA, Global Action Plan and Richard Curtis ~ screenplay on positive environmental futures
[2019] Research Fellowship with the Public Lab for Open Technology and Science on balloon mapping
[2017] JD Irvins Memorial Travel Scholarship, University of Nottingham ~ to participate in socio-ecological research on the Eastern Cape, South Africa