20 Apr 2020
Thanks to everyone who was part of the Roving Microscope project in 2019, here is a short video which captures some of the moments we shared with each other during our Human-Soil Ecologies programme, made up of lunches and workshops in community gardens around London.
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16 Apr 2020
Launching oflostandfound.org – an online material archive, a collection of stuff found within the Phytology site, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve East London and collected in the shed/observatory while artist in residence throughout 2017.
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1 Mar 2020
In February 2020, artist Nick Laessing and I devised and ran a week-long free introductory course for those interested in studying ecologies of making in a wider sense, with Slade School of Fine Art, located in Hackney Wick at Yard Theatre’s community space Hub 67.
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27 Oct 2019
Making honey time machines, with seeds preserved in raw honey together with the amazing seed sharers and savers we met – to be planted in two years time on the new moon! The last Roving Microscope session of the year
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19 Oct 2019
At Fungifest, the Roving Microscope and I presented an encounter with microscopic fungi, and I led a workshop making personal medicinal mushroom broths using fungi growing wild in London, collected with the help of John the Poacher.
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1 Sep 2019
An up-close and personal sensory exploration of human-material-microbe interaction, through mudlarking, microscopy, biscuit making and creative writing together. Where do microbes like to live? How do we feel about the materials in our environment? Can looking really closely change our feelings and behaviour towards other matter and ecosystems?
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5 Apr 2019
For the interdisciplinary colloquium on GOLD at the Institute of Advanced Study, UCL, and then at the Royal Institution, I made a presentation entitled Gold as a Human Barometer, alongside two blown scientific glass objects in the form of human internal organs.
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16 Nov 2018
I appeared on ‘Rial Talk – a podcast by material scientist Dr Anna Ploszajski which explores the personal connections we have with the materials around us.
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5 Sep 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.
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5 Feb 2018
UCL Art Museum Seance: The Spirit of Slade Ladies Past, 1 February 2018. Artist Nir Segal and I toasted spiced bread alongside a séance performed at the museum by Tai Shani, for the event, The Spirit of Slade Ladies Past, and headed with the audience to the UCL observatory to Raise a Toast.
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5 Feb 2018
A video work for Laura White’s Tenderfoot website. On the slow transformation of materials. Jan 2018
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21 Dec 2017
18 – 20 December 2017: three sausage making research workshops, Slade Research Centre, then at Woburn Square. I asked researchers from across disciplines to think together about the borders of human and non-human matter, our human relationship to the food we eat, and how we cook, through the delicious metaphor of the sausage and sausage […]
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