This presentation is about the contribution to knowledge that collaboration across the arts and sciences can bring. I am a media artist with a background in literature and film studies, and media theory more broadly, and for the last ten years I have worked with science and with scientists, with individual colleagues as collaborators, but also with a major scientific institution – Geoscience Australia, our nation’s pre-eminent public sector geoscience organisation. I have learnt a great deal about scientific methods, and just as much about natural and anthropogenic phenomena; and this is thanks to the enormous richness of scientific knowledge about the world. At the same time, the work I produce as an artist has undergone a series of dramatic developments, as it has become inflected by the processes, imperatives and materials of science, and particularly of the environmental sciences. In this presentation I will provide insight into these projects and collaborations, aiming to demonstrate the great potential for addressing complex or “wicked” problems that resides in interdisciplinary enquiry and creative expression. I hope to inform and perhaps even to entertain - but I also hope that this talk sparks some insight into how scientific enquiry may be enriched by incorporating artists and artistic renderings into its working methods and contexts for engagement.