EarthAIR 2026
24 September – 24 October 2026
By appointment
Residency Open days during FRIEZE: 15-18 October, 12-5pm
Special view: Saturday 17 October 2-5pm
Palestinian-Canadian artist Jumana Emil Abboud’s multidisciplinary practice explores cultural memory, lore, and entanglement. Abboud is known for her work with natural water sources in the occupied West Bank. As Beaconsfield’s Earth AIR she researches the North Lambeth water table, its bearing on local climate resilience and the lived stories that might emerge.
A ‘Claude mirror’ in the V&A collection became a central tool for Jumana’s research, during her recent Jameel Fellowship at the Victoria & Albert Museum. As part of the fellowship, the artist produced similar objects with the International Glass and Visual Arts Research Centre (CIRVA), Marseille, and these form a starting point for her residency with Beaconsfield.
EarthAIR is Beaconsfield’s Environmental Artist In Residence scheme for exploring environmental issues with the public through creativity and art. EarthAIRs work with Beaconsfield to address issues of sustainability by sharing their work with specific communities while in residence, exploring social and cultural contexts as well as responsibilities for the geological earth, noting relationships between organic and human environments.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the David Family Foundation that has sustained Beaconsfield this year.