Event: Blackheath Rising Up with The Walking Trees Collective
I am honoured to have been invited by my buddies Fin Forbes-Gower and Sophie Hughes to guest co-host on their next The Walking Trees Collective gathering this Sunday 29th October.
Exhibition: In the Margins: Tales from a Peri Vale, Horsenden
In the Margins: Tales From a Perivale is a five0part, fifteen-minute audio (stranger-than) fiction series encouraging us to read…or listen…between the border lines.
Press: Slow Ways and London National Park City
Thank you to Ingrina Shah and Heiba Lamara for authoring recent articles about my work.
Exhibition: Loops Made 2 Hold Us // Take Care 2 Gether.wav 14-16 July @ Metroland Cultures, Kilburn
Made of sounds, clay, Brent-ish water, and sunlight captured in the Caribbean, these cyclical loops were made 2 hold us. A space for things to fall in and out of synchronicity, and take form in the company of each other.
Residency: Perivale Artist-In-Residence June-Sept
I am honoured to be the next Perivale Artist in Residence! From now until September I’ll have even more excuse to hang out in one of my favourite places in London.
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”.
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.