Get Together 2025 | Keynote: Topologies of Air | Shona Illingworth

Auditorium, 2pm – 3pm

SHONA ILLINGWORTH is a Danish-Scottish artist based in London. Informed by her long-term investigations into the dynamic processes of memory, amnesia and cultural erasure, her work examines the devastating impact of accelerating military, industrial and environmental transformations of airspace and outer space and the implications for human rights. Illingworth is co-founder of the Airspace Tribunal with human rights lawyer Nick Grief.

Recent solo exhibitions of her work include ‘Topologies of Air’ presented at Cukrarna, Ljubljana (2025), Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie, Toulouse (2022-23), Bahrain National Museum, Manama (2022), and The Power Plant, Toronto (2022). Anthony Downey (ed), Shona Illingworth: Topologies of Air was co-published by Sternberg Press and The Power Plant in 2022. She was a recipient of the Stanley Picker Fellowship and was shortlisted for the Jarman Award (2016).

Illingworth is a Professor of Art, Film and Media at the University of Kent and currently an Imperial War Museum Associate, Artist Fellow for the UKRI Polarities Network, and sits on the international editorial boards of the journals Digital War (Palgrave Macmillan) and Memory, Mind & Media (Cambridge University Press).