Robbie Coleman and Jo Hodges are public artists based in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. They work in collaboration on trans-disciplinary public art works.

Robbie Coleman is an artist and curator with a background in sculpture and live art. He curates public arts projects and is Co-Director of the D-LUX Light Festival and The Environmental Arts Festival Scotland.

Jo Hodges is an artist, curator and producer with a background in Human Ecology, community development and social justice.

Jointly their work research led work investigates ecological and socio-cultural systems, processes, relationships and change. Their interests span ecology, culture, conflict, adaptation and resilience, speculative futures, global relationships to the local, participatory culture and the role of art in social and ecological change. They are interested in research, experimentation and collaboration and the resulting work takes many forms including temporary and permanent works, site specific installations, socially engaged and participatory processes and explorations of new strategies for working in public space.

Recent projects have explored distributed community growing schemes, soil, the food system and climate justice, strategies for creative regeneration in post-industrial cities and the social construction of the environment, landscape and relationship to place.

They are Director-Curators of Sanctuary Lab, a public art laboratory in the Galloway Forest Dark Skies Park and are trustees of EcoArt SCIO

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