Dr Prudence Gibson is author of monographs The Plant Thieves (NewSouth Publishing 2023), The Plant Contract (Brill 2018) and The Pharmacy of Plants: Janet Laurence (NewSouth Publishing 2015) in addition to trade books, essays and peer-review papers. Her latest edited book is Dark Botany (Open Humanities Press 2024). Her recent article on poison gardens for The Conversation https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-cure-or-kill-the-deadly-serious-world-of-poison-gardens-and-why-i-planted-my-own-238080 was translated into French and received over 150 000 reads.

All her work is informed by theoretical concepts of plant humanities, environmental aesthetics, eco-feminism, plant medicine (poisons) history and post-human theory. She was Lead CI on the 2020-24 ARC Linkage grant Exploring the cultural value of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium collection using an environmental aesthetic.

Her teaching includes DART3330 Art and Climate (focussing on plant humanities) and DART3340 Art and Activism. Gibson's own practice weaves fictional elements and narrative threads into her scholarly publications. She is part of the Scrub Collective, commissioned by the City of Sydney to create a Dirt Witches Banksia Forest in Haymarket, Sydney. 

Gibson is creative submissions editor of Plant Perspectives, is an active participant in US network The Plant Initiative and is on the editorial board of Seedbooks, Open Humanities Press. She collaborates with scholars at Queen Mary University (London), York University (Canada) and Kew Gardens (London). She is a member of the deep south chapter of the plant humanities network, Working With Plants in the Anthropocene.