Dr Pat Naldi is an artist and Lecturer in MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, from which she also holds a PhD. Her research addresses the geopolitical, environmental, sociospatial, and ideological construction and operation of rural/urban scapes. Her projects are manifested through moving image, performance, live events, installation, photography, website projects, and writing. In April 2022 she was an artist in residence on the Arctic Circle Artist and Scientist Expedition aboard the three masted barquentine ship Antigua, that crossed the Barents Sea and sailed the Svalbard archipelago.