Recent PhD: Materials Research Kitchen: Making Food Together as Material Method and Metaphor. Slade School of Fine Art, 2024.
The Ouroboros Sausage – a research tool
Litmus Tongues: exploring bodies and foodstuffs as chemical sensors. I worked with Kitchen Appliance Manufacturer to prototype a tasting tool for fermented foods
Reacting Bicarb with Sugar reveals the carbon behind the carbohydrate (shared research experiments)
Sugar Creation, part of Bittersweet late event, Machester Museum 14 Feb 2019
Sugar Library: Institute of Making’s Public Open Day: Delight & Disgust 23 March 2018
Evolved Bloody Mary: Spiced vodka tomato water with evolved iron made by metal-bearing synthetic enzymes. – JERWOOD STAGING SERIES: NOT I – 15 Sept 2018
These cast iron cooking tools can be used to explore how materials traverse and become the body. They that can be activated, by being added to slow-cooked food as ‘ingredients’ to impart the food with essential nutritional metals for consumption.
Nutritional Sculptures: Cast from medicinal plants, corals and iron oak galls as ‘Active Ingredients’
Microalgal Blue Sushi: C-phycocyanin-laced sushi balls on toasted nori, with avocado and pickled ginger. JERWOOD STAGING SERIES: NOT I – 15 Sept 2018
Parasitical Mushroom Broth: A clear soup with medicinal properties, made with a cordyceps, a parasitical fungus which grows from the bodies of underground ghost moth larvae. – JERWOOD STAGING SERIES: NOT I – 15 Sept 2018
Human-Material Ecologies: Research-led teaching and learning sessions, discovering ways to think about materials, the body, food and our environment through making together, and hands-on sensory experience with materials. Students used drawing, sculpture and modelmaking, foraging, cooking, discussion, mind-mapping and citizen science-engineering to develop ideas through making, about an expanded understanding of ecologies, introducing concepts of agency in the context of local and planetary scales of connectedness.
Meat Landscapes: interpreting bodies as geological structure
Workshop after Ruskin’s geological teaching models, using dough, jam and honey
The Slick of Joy: A video work for Laura White’s Tenderfoot website. On the slow transformation of materials. Jan 2018
Gold as a Human Barometer, alongside two blown ’storm glasses’ containing colloidal gold solution, in the form of human internal organs.
These were made with John Cowley, UCL Chemistry’s resident glassblower, both working barometers. The heart vessel contained a saturated camphor solution which is in a constant state of crystallisation which waxes and wanes with the speed of atmospheric temperature changes.
The stomach contained red gold nanoparticle colloidal solution to imitate the ‘spirits of wine’ used in historical barometers
The Material Body: edible materials and embodied knowledge in making – part of a three-day event Arte Util: A working Group December 2018 – with Mujeres del Maiz, Cedar Lewishon and Josh Knowles at Calthorpe Commuity Garden.
How do you Like Your Eggs? – Personalisation in the Kitchen – an experimental workshop with the R&D team at Beko – home appliance manufacturer, my PhD partner
Cupboard Love – how do we live with our food and our associated shared microbiome- an experimental research workshop with the R&D team at Beko.
A workshop with Roving Microscope at Fungifest, making personal medicinal mushroom broths using fungi growing wild in London 19 Oct 2019
we asked people to look into their steel broth bowls, and to reflect upon how they were feeling at that time, and what properties they needed the broth to have, what medicine might be needed, what they needed the mushrooms to do for them. They then chose a selection of the foraged medicinal mushrooms, and we made broths together. I then asked people to think of what we might do for the mushrooms – what actions might they need from us, and wrote down our recipes along with thoughts on the nature of medicine.
