Debbie Symons is a multidisciplinary artist whose work utilizes environmental data to investigate and interrogate mankind’s ecological conundrum and the discourse pertaining to this situation. Debbie is currently working with the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species to investigate the effects of business development/growth on Red List animal species.

Debbie was born in Melbourne in 1970. Her formative training was at Victoria College Prahran (Victoria College of the Arts) in the fields of painting and printmaking. Debbie is currently completing a PhD at Monash University. She recently received the prestigious New Work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to develop video's – World Species Market 2009 and Profits / Populations – It's all Numbers.