Dr Nicola Grobler
Artist in Residence
Bio
Dr Nicola Grobler is the artist-in-residence at Future Africa and a senior lecturer in Fine Art at the School of the Arts: Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on public interventions and artistic strategies to surface multispecies entanglements in urban spaces, with emphasis on embodied experiences, empathy studies, care ethics, and natural history museums. She has exhibited widely. Her recent work, focusing on human-bat relationships, was shown in a solo exhibition, Bat behaviour (2025), at the Free State Arts Festival, and she participated in the group exhibition Plurality (2024) at the Javett-UP Bridge Gallery. She is a research lead in the collaborative project Co-MammalHub: artistic approaches to reinvigorate a museum exhibition through public co-creation, launched at the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, and is the recipient of a UCDP-UP sabbatical grant (2025).
