Caroline Wendling socially engaged interdisciplinary practice integrates art and ecology. Her work ranges across media including drawing, print, performance, sound and film. She devises site-specific experiences in the form of choreographed walks/performances connecting people to land. She takes her audience on a physical, sensory and emotional journey; leaving both the participant and the audience with a poetic encounter and a story to tell. Her walks were performed in New York city, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Aberdeenshire. For White Wood, Huntly, Aberdeenshire (2015/2915), a living monument to peace, she explored links between friendship and cooperation, precariousness and peace. In 2016 she received a special commendation for Arts in Public Places from Saltire Society. She is the recipient of several Arts Council England grants. She was awarded residencies at METAL Southend, Studio459Tomar, BioArt, Helsinki, Cambridge School of Art, Nene Park Trust and Deveron Projects. Commissioners include Whitechapel gallery, London, Kettle’s Yards, Cambridge, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Deveron Projects, Huntly and others. Educated both in France and the UK, Wendling teaches at the University of Reading and West Dean College. Her teaching research is concerned with ways of being and connecting to land offering meaningful understanding to place and ideas of belonging.