This conference will explore engagements between visual art and the material environment. The environments in question are various: natural and fabricated, interior and exterior, urban and rural, and include a range of sites, spaces, places and landscapes. The visual arts in question are historical and contemporary and in a range of media. The conference will consider how the making and meaning of artworks engage with various environments, in time and space, with events, processes and narratives of environmental development, including those before and beyond current framings of global climate change. Art and Environment will explore issues for the history, theory and practice of art and for aesthetics, criticism and design, and more widely for ways environments are experienced, described, imagined and created. The conference will consider relations between arts and humanities approaches to the environment and other forms of knowledge and practice, including science and policy, in wide ranging cultural reflections and speculations on the place of art in the material world and its transformations