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 Exhibitions

Nov 2023 / I’m Weather Under The Feeling, Part 1: Materialising.a Hot Breath part of Soft Tissue: Feeling Through Precarious Times, Metroland Cultures, London

Oct 2023 / Geohaptics, Charnwood Geopark x RADAR Loughborough, Loughborough

Sept 2023 / In the Margins: Tales from a Peri Vale, Perivale Hive, London

July 2023 / A Wet Fiction, part of P2P Weekender, Metroland Cultures, London

June 2023 / Common/ Collage, part of London Festival of Architecture, London

June 2023 / More-than-Human Architecture, part of London Festival of Architecture, London

April 2023 / Can a Perfume Trespass?, part of The Green House, Lethaby Gallery London

April 2023 / Regions, part of Reciprocity Muscles, Cala.Space, Berlin

August 2022 / Joya Reimagined, Thames Side Studio, London

July 2022 / MA Art & Ecology degree show, Goldsmiths University, London

May 2022/ Carbon Jelly Jam Grove installation as part of Solaris at The Pie Factory, Peckham, London

Feb 2022 / Leaf Hearing Blue, Moss Tickling a Soil installation and event as part of In Dreams Begin  exhibition, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London

Aug 2021 / Leaf Hearing Blue, Moss Tickling a Soil installation and events as part of Places to Intervene in a System exhibition, St John on Bethnal Green and Phytology, London

Jan 2021 / Phytophonic Choreographies of Care sound piece for Feminist Sonic Technologies, part of Second Nature Lab, Berlin

Jan 2020 / Fieldnotes #2, mixed media installation, part of ‘life.formed’ exhibition, TENSION Gallery, London (exhibition prize)

Oct 2019 / Prima Luca, mixed media installation, part of ‘Through The Looking Glass’ exhibition, Ugly Duck, London

June 2019 / Fieldnotes from a Technobiocology, mixed media installation and publication, part of  ‘RIFT’ degree show, Central Saint Martins, London

Jan 2019 / Geologic Bodies, mixed media and spoken word exhibited at ‘Falling Stars’, The Crypt, London 

Dec 2018 / Objects, Assemblies, Relations, mixed media installation and video exhibited at ‘EmbryonicA’, Elthorne Studios, London 

June 2018 / FRAGRANT / FUTURES, interactive scent installation,  commissioned for ‘Life at the Edges’, The Science Gallery, Dublin

May 2018 / Transcendent Sensations, sculpture lightboxes exhibited at ‘Cosmic Perspectives’, Ugly Duck, London (co-curated w/ LUMEN)

Jan 2018 / New Earth Object Research, mixed media sculptures and moving image exhibited at TEDx Royal Society, London 

 Workshops/Teaching

Nov 2023 / Wild Perspectives @ Sainsbury Centre, Norfolk

Oct 2022 - July 2023 / Transformative Futures @ Camden Art Centre, London

May 2023 / Forests at the Edge @ Urban Tree Festival, London

April 2023 / Breaking Spells and Spelling Worlds to Come @ Sirius Art Centre, Online

Dec 2022 / Queering Decay: Thinking with Dead Wood @ ONCA Online, 6 Dec

Aug 2022 / Earth Quest @ Barbican, London

June 2022 / Touch as Reconnecting Tissue, part of the Sentient Performativities symposium at Darlington Hall, Devon

May 2022 / The Relational Forest: A walk with Stanmore Country Park, part of the Urban Tree Festival

May 2022 / An Intro to Ourcellves: Mulch Mediation, a tactile seminar and installation @ SOLARIS The Pie Factory, Peckham

June 2022 / Horniman Museum, group commission for Lewisham Borough of culture art boards project

April 2022 / Nature Reconnection Workshops (Brent), London National Park City 

Feb 2022 / Nature Reconnection Workshop, London Interdisciplinary School

Nov 2021 / COP26 Children’s Protest workshop design and event, St James Hatcham Primary School, Lewisham

Nov 2021 / Nature Reconnection Workshop, London Interdisciplinary School

Sept 2021 / Soft Tissue, 5 week course delivered for School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe, Berlin

Sept 2021 / The Plant Oracle Collective: Plant Trafficking workshop, ARS Electronica (Virtual)

Aug 2021 / Leaf Hearing Blue Workshops, Phytology nature reserve, London

April 2021 / researchpractice, ‘Soft Tissue’ virtual workshop, RAA Sweden

Jan 2021 / Readings for Uncertain Times, monthly reading group commissioned by LUMEN x Arts Council England.  

Jan 2018 / Scent workshop at ‘Studio Reflex’, TATE Modern, London

Symposia / Talks

September 2023 / Art and Ecology @ Commagene Biennale, Turkey

August 2023 / A Carrier Bag of Care-full Decision Making @ The Conference, Malmo

June 2023 / The Enmessing Table @ Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) Symposium, Toynbee Studios

July 2022 / Gooey Care, London Critical Conference, Birkbeck

July 2021 / Soft Tissue, DeGrowth Conference

July 2021 / Bodies of Arboreal Time, spoken word piece, Uprooting the Anthropocene, TORCH Oxford University

April 2021 / (Taking) Care in the Climate Crisis, Talk and videos, CHASE Climate Justice Network

Jan 2021 / Soil Nexus Conference, performative reading, online

Feb 2020 / Sensing Systems Symposium, talk, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham 

June 2019 / Radical Ecologies, speaker and panelist, FLUX, London 

Nov 2018 / Technologies of Romance symposium, poetry, Science Museum 

Jan 2018 / London LASER LABS, year long programme co-lead, UAL

Research Groups

/ Squishy Sessions, founder and convener of a research group exploring touch x tactility x making x care (March 2021- ongoing)

/ B|T|W|N THE L|AV|S: A Critical De/compost Reading Group, founder and co-convener with Georgia Perkins

/ EARTHSHAPES, founder and convener a series of monthly gatherings tuning into rhythms of the season (ongoing)

/ BioArt Coven, former convener of monthly ‘New Moon’ practice-sharing gatherings

Education & Training

2022 / MA Art & Ecology  // Distinction // Goldsmiths University

2019 / MA Art & Science  // Distinction // Central Saint Martins 

2008 / BA Fashion Promotion & Communication // First Class (Hons) // Southampton Solent University 

2021 / Guardians of the Forest Certificate // Advaya

Residencies

June 2023 / Perivale Artist In Residence / funded residency at Perivale Community Hive, London

Dec 2020 / I & The Other, workshop participation for both The Plant Oracle Collective and the Sourdough DNA project, Alt Lab Lithuania 

Jan 2020 / Wildbiyoo Residency, Goa. 20 artists, 20 days exploring themes of climate change resulting in a two day arts festival. 

Aug 2018 / LUMEN residency in Atina, Italy. Exhibition in Italy and London and zine. 

June 2018 / Artist in Residence at THECUBE, London exploring ‘Is nature a product of the senses mediated in the mind?’ 

May 2018 / JOYA Art and Ecology, Almeria, Spain. Group Research Residency.

Awards

Sept 2023 / Jerwood Arts Artist Development Fund x 101 Outdoor Centre Take It Outside Artist Development Award 

July 2023 / Barnet Council London Festival of Architecture Community Fund recipient

June 2022 / Metroland Cultures Brent peer-to-peer bursary

Jan 2021 / LCN Fellowship with SPACE Studios

June 2019 / TENSION Gallery prize for Fieldnotes from a Technobiocology

Volunteering

/ London National Park City, Ranger (particularly active across Barnet, Brent and Harrow boroughs)

/ Barnet Directory, Founder of online listings platform

/ The Horniman Art Boards Project, June 2022 on the occassion of Lewisham Borough of Culture

/ Harrow Nature Conservation Forum, Harrow

/ TURF Projects Croydon, former Trustee (Secretary)

 Press

Where The Leaves Fall Magazine, Dec 2022

Echo Gone Wrong I & the Non-Human Other, Jan 2021 

Neo.Life, edt by Wired co-founder Jane Metcalfe and Brian Bergstein, Jan 2020

NeoLife.com, A New Kind of Natural, June 2020

AnOther Magazine, Hybraphile, Aug 2020

The Earth Issue #4: Dreams of Tomorrow, Aug 2020 

CLOT Mag, life.formed exhibition, Dec 2019

CLOT Mag, Elastic Nature, Jan 2019

RTE Radio, Culture File, June 2018

Plural University, U+Zine_1 Relations, June 2020 

Publishing

Summer 2024 / The Routledge Queer Death Studies Handbook / co-authored chapter with Georgia Perkins

Dec 2022 / MA Art and Ecology Journal / Contribution

June 2022 / The Catalogue of Touch / Contribution

Career History

Aug 2017 - present / Freelance campaign management and creative projects for a range of clients 

• Something More Near: Project-by-project support for a range of clients at a point of transformation e.g. TED Global’s #countusin initiative. 

• Quantum CS: Project-by-project support research and curating for brands

• It’s Nice That:  Project-by-project support for creative briefs with international clients.

• Propela : support for  an agency representing maverick thinkers and global change-makers. Co-producer of The Future Of_  (2017) conference; the V&A Future Series (2019) and The Design Council ReDesign Business (2020). 

Aug 2017 - present / Freelance trends research and advisory

• Dentsu Aegis Network: Consultant and writer editing the annual trends reports and thought leadership pieces for one of the world’s six largest advertising conglomerates.

• Stylus: For the Advisory team I work on specialist project briefs from brand clients, for the Editorial team I write reports.

• Mix Magazine / Colour Hive: Former contributor to MIX magazine producing features on design, culture, sustainability and tech themes ranging from food futures to re-thinking waste.   

Full time roles 

• four23 // Programme Leader / Jan 2013 - Sept 2017. Leading the specialist project management teams, my role was to understand, visualise and interpret detailed and complex project briefs and guide the team and clients, from start to finish from creative concept to delivery. My inter-disciplinary capabilities saw me successfully deliver integrated, global projects across events, spatial design, programming, print, digital and retail. As a member of the Leadership Team I worked closely with the CEO on a daily basis consulting on the business development, financial and cultural vision of the studio. Leading a ‘Best Practice’ programme across the company from pitch guidelines to project

• Idea Generation // Cultural Programmer / Jan 2011 - Nov 2012 Connecting brands with audiences through culture, concepting ideas and producing events. 

• Trendstop // Trend Researcher | May ‘08 – Dec ‘10 Key researcher and producer across Consumer Trends & Lifestyle sections of the forecasting site and mobile app, Trendstop Trendtracker. Process included collating and decoding research from a variety of sources from media scanning to attending events in London, Paris and Milan.