Workshop: "Along the fold" zine making workshop, Part of: Meet me at the Edge, London Festival of Architecture, Sun 9 July
At first glance, the suburban high street might feel relatively nature-poor but how might we shift our attention differently in order to invite ecology to shimmer to the fore? This Sunday 9th July I'll be hosting a zine-making workshop celebrating signs of ecology in the margins, gaps and cracks!
Intervention: The Enmessing Table Part of: Art, Climate, Transition Symposium at Toynbee Studios 29 June, all day
Artsadmin are co-hosting an international symposium with Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) on 28 and 29 July at Toynbee Studios, East London! I will be humbly contributing to the rich two day programme with The Enmessing Table.
Showcase: Transformative Futures Takeover Camden Art Centre, 2-3 July, all day
The Transformative Futures weekend is an opportunity for the Transformative Futures Youth Collective to present their works and findings of experimentation and material investigation across themes of embodiment, collaboration and connection.
Campaign: #DoLondonDifferently London National Park City Campaign
Very proudly introducing the London National Park City campaign#dolondondifferently celebrating the 150 volunteer rangers and countless more makers and do-ers helping to create a healthier, weedier, shadier, wonder-full, accessible, bat-tier, bird-ier, pollinator-friendly, playful, joyful, shadier, tastier, shroomier, toxin-free, equitable London.
Talks: The Conference Malmö, Sweden 29-30 August
This August I'm heading to Malmö, Sweden to speak at The Conference - a juicy two-day international design-tech-society-gathering where this year, they’re delving into the soft middles of the systems that shift and shape us.
Installation + Workshop: Collage / Commons
Collage / Commons is a deconstructed map of the Barnet Plateau, the geographic name for the area of London that spans the civic boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Harrow, Ealing and Hillingdon. It zooms-in and maps the fleshy textures of plants, waters, soils and fungi highlighting connection, community and commonality with the land and the species we co-habit with.
Installation + Workshop: More-Than-Human-Architecture
More-Than-Human-Architecture is a series of experimental ceramic sculptures designed as ‘offerings’ for the more-than-human companions we share our common spaces with. The artworks have been created for community-led growing spaces across the London Borough of Barnet on the occasion of the London Festival of Architecture 2023 in response to the theme “In Common”.
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Walk: Re-enchanting the Edg[e]ware, 18 June 5.30-7pm
Walks: Forests at the Edge Part of: the Urban Tree Festival, 13, 14, 21 May
I'm returning to the Urban Tree Festival this year to lead a series of artist-led walks and gatherings exploring forest ecologies at the fringes of London. Existence as Resistance, Sat 13 May 1pm-3.30pm, Barnwood N2 Edible Forest, Finchley Bodies, Borders, Boundaries, Sun 14 May 2pm-4.30pm, Stanmore Country Park, Harrow (Soft) Edgelands, Sun 21 May 1.30pm-3.30pm, Horsenden Hill, Ealing.
Exhibition: Can a Perfume Trespass? @ The Lethaby Gallery, London 25-30 April
I'm excited and proud to be part of the energy and urgency of this UAL Climate Emergency Network initiative for Earth Day 2023. I will be contributing an intervention and evolving work Can a Perfume Trespass? to the exhibition component of the campaign held in The Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins.
Exhibition: Regions /noun/ a body of unfixed boundaries @ CALA Space, Berlin 21 April - 25 May
21 April - 25 May I am presenting Regions /noun/ a body of unfixed boundaries, a new work created for “Reciprocity Muscles” a group exhibition centred around the provocation - how can we use our bodily senses to enter reciprocal relations with the environment?
Online Event: Breaking Spells, Spelling Worlds to Come @ Sirius Art Centre, 26 April 6-7.30pm
Join me for an online workshop exercising our word-world making skills and the potential of the verb ‘to spell’ as a way of conjuring and manifesting new possibilities in a time and place where we are bewitched by concepts and logics that are not serving ecological justice.
Event: Queering Decay: Thinking with Dead Wood @ONCA Online, Tue 6 Dec, 6.30pm-8.00pm.
Join me for an evening gathering thinking-with dead wood as a guide for co-flourishing in ruinous times of profound loss as part of ONCA Brighton’s annual Lost Species Day programme.
Programme: Transformative Futures at Camden Art Centre, Sat 26th Nov, Sat 10th Dec, 2pm-4pm.
I have been invited to co-lead Camden Art Centre's Transformative Futures programme, a series of artist-led workshops for young people aged 15-25 designed as drop-ins but set up to form a “collective”, culminating in a public-facing offering in the summer of 2023.
Event: The Journal of Art & Ecology launch @ Goldsmiths University, Weds 7th Dec 2022, 5.30pm-7.30pm.
Event: The Journal of Art & Ecology launch @ Goldsmiths University, 5.30pm-7.30pm. Free
Press: Interview in Where The Leaves Fall Magazine
Many thanks to the team at Where The Leaves Fall for the beautiful questions that formed my interview for the "Nature Kind" section of the magazine - a series of weekly conversations with "nature-lovers who live, create and act for the planet".
Resource: Barnet Directory, opportunities and events in the London Borough of Barnet
Follow to find out about opportunities to get involved in community-led projects or bookmark to stay tuned into walks and events you can attend to discover an incredible new part of London (find us on the Northern Line!)
Press: The Posthumanist Magazine
Event: B|T|W||N THE L|AV|S: A Critical De/Compost Reading Group @ The Mosaic Rooms, Wed 16 Nov 4.00pm-6.00pm
For the fourth session of B|TW|N THE L|AV|S: A Critical De/Compost Reading Group, we turn to Anna Tsing’s essay on ‘The Forest of Collaborations,’ which centres on the model of community-managed forests in Indonesia. Tsing offers us “friction” as a tool to assess the sticky complexities of “community-based” collaboration; different agendas across common projects; “productive confusion” and “awkward coalescence”.
Event: EARTHSHAPES #8 CHERISHING - SAMHAIN - THURS 3RD NOV, 6.30PM-8.00PM
For the final EARTHSHAPES, we take a moment to celebrate, honour, revere and cherish the people, places, experiences and encounters that have become ‘ancestral’ material for the year past. We will reflect outwards and joyfully map our (spider…) webs of connection and gratitude.