Perrin Ireland has spent the last decade exploring how animals make a living- how they make noise, have sex, and try to kill each other–using language, line, and color to communicate the shocking realities of life on this planet. Her work is a collaboration with the natural world, scientists, and the viewer, whose engagement informs her visual and performance research.
She has built an art practice inside scientific and policy institutions, telling stories situated between what we know about the planet and our belonging to it. She began by illustrating a marine biology lab’s research at Brown University while earning a science degree.
From 2012-2022, she created watercolor animated videos about climate change, oceans, and endangered animals at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Her work has appeared at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library, Mystic Seaport Museum, Discover Magazine, Nature Magazine, Scientific American, Damn Joan Magazine, Physics World, and The Rumpus.
Recent experience includes being an inaugural artist-in-residence at the New York Aquarium and a Banff Graphic Novel Resident in fall 2025.
