Collaboration: Art Boards at The Horniman Museum & Gardens

Earlier this summer, myself and four other MA Art & Ecology students were privileged to collaborate with Year 9 and 10 students at Conisborough College, Catford to co-create a series of art-boards for The Horniman Museum and Gardens. Over three carefully crafted sessions we journeyed with the students to explore how we could tell renewed, joyful narratives of the climate crisis (not easy! 😅) using the Horniman Gardens and Museum Collection as stimulus. The art-boards are generated in response to our explorations  the board I led was focused on the Stag Beetle - a critter close to my heart, having been on the precipice of extinction before local efforts have greatly restored in number in South London (and my home town of Croydon 🙌🏽). And their habitat is dead wood! “We wanted our art to be a sign of hope and to show that things do not need to be neat and pretty to be beautiful” remarked the contributing Conisborough College pupils. The boards are on show during the Garden opening hours until October 2022.
>> Link to read more about the boards project