Biography

a Snæfellsjökuls rawlings is a mineral, plant, animal, person, place, or thing. Also known as Dr. Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, they are a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher with an ecological emphasis. They work with languages as dominant exploratory material. Rawlings’ books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (online, 2012), o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), and Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019). Rawlings created the community-transforming Multilingual Writing Lab in 2014 and 2015, commissioned by Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature. Subsequent to this workshop, Rawlings joined workshop participants to form Iceland's first multilingual literary collective, Ós Pressan.

Rawlings received their PhD in 2020 from the University of Glasgow where they researched how to perform geochronology in the Anthropocene. In 2021-22, they researched becoming-with whales in the climate crisis as a postdoctoral fellow with H.M. Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society. In 2022, Rawlings co-curated SPHERE Festival for the Canadian National Arts Centre’s Orchestra in partnership with the Canadian Museum of Nature, Royal Danish Library, and Nordic Bridges. In 2024, Rawlings founded Snæfellsjökul fyrir forseta (Glacier for president), Iceland's first rights of nature movement. In 2025, Rawlings' solo exhibition Motion to Change Colour Names to Reflect Planetary Boundary Tipping Points was opened in a decommissioned fertiliser factory. Rawlings currently holds a second postdoctoral position researching Icelandic family eco-relations as evidenced through the last eighty years of film and literature. They teach at Iceland University of the Arts. 

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