5 Homegrown Creatives Who Are Using Their Art To Spotlight Modern Climate Emergencies

It's Earth Day and all I keep thinking about are billionaires who are trying to leave it. These space flights would probably have more meaning if the intention was actually exploration and not Mars-domniation or whatever else Elon is trying to convince us of. We keep trying to find this 'new home' for ourselves. Well guess what, we have a home at home; a perfectly fine one. And we haven't even completely gasped what goes on here. A fungi network that can talk to trees, deep sea creatures we're unequipped to reach, and God knows what else. We've not been very nice to this pale blue dot (some of us cant even get its shape right). But if there's one thing I know, it's that we need it more than it needs us. Yet, so many of us fail to realize this.

This Earth Day, we bring you 5 Homegrown artists who are on a creative mission to dismantle anthropocentrism and bring awareness to climate action:

Nimmy Joshi's ceramic creatures might be tiny, but they carry the spirit of the wild. From owls and octopuses to octopuses and chameleons mid-shift, her miniature sculptures capture the creatures of nature with tenderness and precision. Trained as an architect, Nimmy took an unexpected detour into clay — one that led her to Goa’s coastlines. Here, nature became both the studio and the subject. Her label, Nimmiatures, is a tactile tribute to the planet’s strange and stunning life forms. In her more recent work the ceramicist turns more contemplative — asking us to see ourselves not as rulers of nature, but as part of it. A glazed terrarium with human-fish hybrids becomes a mythic mirror, reflecting just how entangled we really are with the living world around us.

Go through her sculptures here.

Based in Cape Town and originally from India, Sujay has spent over a decade immersed in the rare fynbos biome, one of the smallest and most endangered in the world. His art is a kind of reverence for the ecosystems he observes. Here, humans are not heroes or intruders, but participants in a larger, more mysterious web of life. In his works, boundaries between species and their habitats blur; plants and animals entwine with human forms, dissolving the illusion of separation. He calls this a search for self — not in isolation, but in relation to everything around us.

Follow his work here.

Thukral and Tagra’s Arboretum series brings together nature and the digital world, turning trees into cultural icons that speak to both our past and present. Born during the pandemic, Arboretum mixes glitchy pixels and hyperrealism to create a distorted memory of the natural world. Inspired by everything from Kashmir’s chinar trees to the peaceful cherry blossoms of Japan and their own Gurgaon home, the explore themes of conflict, home, and belonging, asking how our tech-driven lives have altered our connection to the planet.

Read more about it here.

The planet is melting and Below 2° aims to be a reminder of that. This five-foot globe at Karma Lakelands in Delhi, built from 1000 repurposed golf balls and hand-painted by children, begins to melt when temperatures hit 53°C. Created by artist and climate activist Aakash Ranison, the installation highlights the horrifying collapse of the planet in a way that can be experienced in real time. Surrounding the globe are 14 3D-printed endangered species from the IUCN Red List, each one a reminder of what we're slowly losing.

Find the installation here.

Ditty has built a career that merges music with activism, touring by train and performing in natural spaces to champion eco-consciousness. Her music converts themes of sustainability, pollution, and the climate crisis into evocative storytelling. After a six-year hiatus, Ditty just returned with KĀLĪ, her much-anticipated second album. The raw, emotive soundscapes of KĀLĪ feature nature as a collaborator. In ‘AZADI,’ the artist recorded live in the Aravali forest, with sounds of birds and rustling trees, as a reminder that art and the earth are inseparable.

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