Miranda Whall (b. Cardiff, 1969) studied at UWIC Cardiff; Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver; the Royal Academy Schools; and Goldsmiths, University of London. She has received numerous Arts Council England grants, including the ACE-funded Berlin residency, and was awarded a Major Creative Wales Award and Large Production Grant from Arts Council Wales. Whall is currently the recipient of a creative commission from UKRI CO2RE – Green House Gas Removal Hub, Oxford University 2025–2026 for When Peat Speaks (2025–26) and was recently awarded the inaugural Live Art Rural UK Fellowship by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). Whall has been a co-investigator on several recent NERC-funded projects and works at the intersection of performance, expanded drawing, film and environmental science.

She is the director and performer of two recent stage productions When Seeds Speak: A Seedy Ensemble (Seligman Theatre, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff) and When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble (Aberystwyth Arts Centre). Solo exhibitions include When Earth Speaks (Vane, Newcastle), Crossed Paths – Sheep (Oriel Davies, Newtown), and Passage (Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, Bath). She was recently included in the groundbreaking exhibition Soil: The World at Our Feet at Somerset House, London.  Whall’s 10m Dirty Pricks drawing will be exhibited in the TBWD Prize and touring exhibition 2025/26. Whall was keynote speaker for Digital Ecologies 111; Machine/Material/Land at Bath Spa University in July 2025.

She is currently a postgraduate and PhD research supervisor and lecturer in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University, a creative coach and mentor for Arts Council Wales.

ArtBomb Project: When Peat Speaks