Chris Fremantle

Chris Fremantle is a producer working in public art and a Lecturer and Research Fellow at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He established ecoartscotland in 2011 as a platform for projects and networking. In 2015 ecoartscotland partnered with the Land Art Generator Initiative and ran a design competition for a new sustainable housing development in Glasgow. The ecoartscotland library has also been exhibited in various contexts. Chris is currently Art Advisor to the European Marine Board’s Embracing the Ocean programme and Research Associate with the US Forest Service’s naturePLACE program. His focus is on the role of artists and designers in public life. The book Thinking with the Harrisons: Re-thinking art in the global environment crisis, which he co-authored with Anne Douglas, was published by Leuven University Press in 2024. It coincided with the exhibition Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a key part of the Getty’s PST, and the authors delivered a keynote programme of panel discussions for each of the four exhibition venues.