Linzi Lewis was born and bred in Johannesburg. She has been deeply influenced by this vibrant, dynamic city, having dedicated many years walking, cycling, and traversing its streets, learning its rhythm and movements.
She is an applied and political ecologist, geographer and environmental scientist, social justice activist, agroecologist, designer, dancer, choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and aspiring pedagogist. Her academic background is in environmental science, looking at the intersections between environment and society, and, in particular, how to imagine and build futures. Her creative work transcends across environmental philosophy, activism, as socially engaged, performative, co-creative, dialogical, ecological art.







“I co-organised Response-Ability between 2020 and 2022, and directed, choreographed, and performed in DE|COMPOSITION, that won a Bronze Standard Bank Ovation Award at the Makhanda Arts Festival in 2021. I co-founded AMBush Eco-Art Collective, for which I was voted as Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans in 2013, along with other awards, and participated in a number of public art residencies and collaborations, including the Climate Train, PublicActs, amongst others. My solo exhibition Floored Reality, in 2009 at the Spaza Art Gallery, sparked a number of visual art collaborations and personal explorations and interests.
I now am a Research Associate of the African Centre for Biodiversity, after nearly a decade of being a Research and Advocacy Officer at the ACB. I remain deeply committed to their work, advocating for food sovereignty, and ecological and social justice in the food system.”

Linzi holds two international MSc degrees, through a scholarship programme called Sustainable Tropical Forestry, and a BSc and BSc (Hons) from Wits University in Geography, Environmental Science, and Earth, Environment and Conservation.
Instagram: @liliana_transplanter
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