Bridget Mckenzie is a creative researcher, trainer and eco-artist dedicated to engaging people with the Earth crisis. Bridget is currently developing her own work, by layering photography, film, collage and poetry, to explore the ecological theory of fluminism.
Cultural Learning
Bridget McKenzie has a background in Cultural Learning, with 30 years of experience in running, developing and evaluating learning and digital programmes in museums, heritage, arts and science.
Throughout her career to date, Bridget McKenzie has played major roles developing art gallery and museum education. Highlights include acting as Education Manager for Tate in London. She managed the Tate Education programme for 100,000 school visitors, including teacher training, special projects, study days and education resources. She co-devised programmes for families, youth, art students and community groups. But also this role included curating 15 project exhibitions.
She also became Head of Learning for the British Library. There, from 2002-2006, among other things, she set up and managed the British Library Learning team, who ran workshops, major projects and websites based on principles of ‘creative enquiry’. She also established many high-profile partnerships with media, such as the BBC, and learning institutions.
Flow Associates and Climate Museum
In 2006 Bridget McKenzie founded Flow Associates, supporting around 150 organisations to develop public programmes. Flow Associates also engages in audience development, interpretation, research and evaluation of public programmes.
In 2019, Bridget McKenzie founded her most innovative organisation, Climate Museum UK. This is a creative collective of artists, designers and educators who engage in a variety of creative conversations to help people make sense of environmental issues.
Bridget also also co-founded Culture Declares, an international movement of cultural workers declaring a climate and ecological emergency.
Possitopia Norwich
“Since 2022, I have been developing creative eco-activism in my home City through a programme I call Possitopia Norwich. I’ve written a book called Earth Talk which I’m making available through a course and online community.”
Bridget McKenzie who is already highly qualified, having studied at University of Sussex, University of Brighton, Chelsea College of Art (now UAL), is continuing to further her studies. From September 2024, she began a Post Graduate Visual Arts course at Art Depot in Norwich. This is leading to her development of her creative work on fluminism.
“I have carried a lifelong passion for the environment and concern about its growing devastation, expressed through many artistic and community projects. Joining this network is a way of keeping me in touch with grounded, land-based and biophilic artists, and challenging my critical art practice. https://bridgetmckenzie.uk/
