Roam
We are pleased to be working with the campaigning organisation Right to Roam to support artists Edd Carr, Grace Lee and Sarah Taylor Silverwood to produce new animated work in response to their vision of “a future countryside in which people not only enjoy the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of nature but serve as its guardians too”.
Each artist will undertake a period of research and development, engaging broadly with the subject, and developing their ideas through discussions with Right to Roam’s Jon Moses.
Roam is our third commissioning programme aimed at early career animation artists. As with our previous projects PLANTING and Mortal, the Roam artists will each receive production and editorial support from Animate as they develop and produce a short, animated, single-screen film. The films will be shown at a public event, online and on Instagram, from Summer 2026.
Edd Carr
Edd Carr is a moving image artist and researcher based in London. His practice confronts ecological crisis, generational trauma, and land exploitation – particularly in the North York Moors, where he was raised. He works with low-toxic photographic processes, exploring tactile, materials-led animation techniques using nonhuman materials such as soil, plants, and rainwater.
Edd’s work has been shown at BFI London Film Festival, TOKAS Tokyo, Saatchi Gallery, and DAZED CIRCA at Piccadilly Circus, London. Awards include the Channel 4 Random Acts Award and Film London’s Best Artist Filmmaker 2025. He is co-director of the Sustainable Darkroom, the first global initiative for teaching ecological approaches to photographic materials.
Edd has a degree in Natural History Media from Falmouth University, and an MA Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art.
Grace Lee
(SOME.GAL) is based in Sheffield. Her practice is rooted in hidden histories, ecology, diasporic memory and liberatory futures, working across animation, community collaboration and storytelling. She uses hybrid animation techniques, merging analogue processes, nature photography, archival materials and digital compositing to craft textured, layered visual worlds.
She collaborates with grassroots groups, environmental organisations and museums on projects that centre marginalised voices, including Museum of Colour, Peaks of Colour, and currently the Francis Crick Institute on an exhibition exploring ancient DNA. Other partnerships include residencies and commissions with the Time & Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, Serendipity Institute for Black Arts & Heritage, and Weston Park Museum. She is a Delphian Open Call Winner 2023 and a recipient of the Creative Access x McLaren Racing Development Bursary.
Grace holds a degree in Anthropology and Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Scenography from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Sarah Taylor Silverwood
Sarah is based in Birmingham. Her drawing based practice works across animation, textiles, ceramics and print, combining interests in making, storytelling and working with other people. Recent public realm work includes projects with Hospital Rooms, Eastside Projects, and Fermynwoods (2023).
Recent solo projects include: Love Bugs at Chapter, Cardiff; Daphne at Aspex, Portsmouth and The New Art Gallery Walsall; and Crowd Show at NN Contemporary. Sarah has been an artist in residence at The British Consulate in Chicago and The University of Birmingham, and is a recipient of the Feeney Fellowship.
Sarah studied English at the University of Birmingham. She co-runs Modern Clay, a co-operative clay studio in Birmingham, run by artist members. In 2025 she founded a handmade tile workshop called Sunday Tiles.
https://www.sarahsilverwood.com/
Right to Roam
Since 2021, Right to Roam has been organising peaceful trespasses into some of the vast areas of countryside from which the public are currently excluded.
Led by botanists, ornithologists, astronomers, dancers, singers, citizen scientists, outdoors specialists and poets, Right to Roam follows the tried and tested access code which governs Scotland’s right of responsible access, respecting privacy, crops and nature – all while seeking to leave a positive trace and practising deep care for the natural world: a concept they call Wild Service.
Their vision is of a future countryside in which people not only enjoy the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of nature but serve as its guardians too.
https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/
Jon Moses
Jon is a writer and campaigner. He has published features, essays and profiles on environmental and other issues for The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Lead, The Great Outdoors and in 2024 co-edited Right to Roam’s book, Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You.
He joined Right to Roam in 2021 after completing a doctorate in GeoHumanities and realising he knew almost nothing about where he actually lived.
A lengthy river trespass followed, and he’s never been the same since. At Right to Roam, Jon focuses on policy, communications and the ground campaign.