Amber Griffiths

Amber Griffiths predominantly works on environmental and social projects, with academic and applied backgrounds in both science and illustration/design practices. She is as comfortable wrangling complex datasets as she is handling traditional media and materials for artistic outcomes, and the blend of these skills forms the basis of her work.

Amber holds an MRes in Animal Science and a PhD in wildlife genetics (2008), and is currently completing a Masters in Illustration: Authorial Practice (2024-2026). She has published in academic journals covering topics from climate impacts and genomics, to data visualisation and sound art, finding hopping between and merging disciplines a natural place to be. She has won two major research fellowships (Academy of Finland, and EU Marie Curie) and held a permanent lectureship at the Environment and Sustainability Institute (University of Exeter, 2012-2014), supervising three PhD students to completion during this academic phase.

Amber is adept at translating complex topics for very broad audiences, having worked at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, and then establishing and running an independent research, design and development studio Then Try This since 2014. While at Then Try This she has led collaborative projects and delivered commissions for major international visitor attractions like the Deutsches Museum (Munich), Natural History Museum (London) and Eden Project (Cornwall), and has held several funding panel positions on interdisciplinary and public engagement calls for UKRI and NERC as well as advisory roles for charities and galleries. She has designed and led numerous exhibitions, illustrated online games, citizen science projects, and curated residency calls.

Email: amber@thentrythis.org

Social media: I only post on Mastodon (handle below), but I've bridged my account to Bluesky if you're into that (@amberfirefly.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy).