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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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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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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6 Mar 2018
Sat 17 March 2018, 10:00 – 17:00
A one-day hands-on workshop at the Calthorpe community project on the theme of food production, sustainability and closing the energy loop with artist researchers from the Slade School of Art. Join an experiment to test a hydroponic plant machine, originally devised by NASA and make your own vegetarian closed loop sausages.
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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14 Jul 2014
For the first half of 2014, our studio collective Studio Manifold worked with the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. We began with a series of off-site workshops with local residents dealing with pots and seriation (a way of telling the era of an archaeological site by the forms of the vessels found there). The work culminated […]
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14 Aug 2013
Work created on residency with Manifold colleagues at Guldagergård International Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark 2013
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14 Aug 2012
In 2012 I was offered the chance to work with the Artists Access to Art Colleges scheme which I heartily recommend. It gave me the access to a glass studio that I needed. That year I was commissioned to make a faceted bowl for the Craft’ Council Handling Collection. It is a faceted wooden bowl […]
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21 Nov 2011
Stick Up 30 September — 13 November 2011
As part of the British Ceramics Biennale, London based studio group Manifold will be forming an experimental collaboration with Stoke-on-Trent’s AirSpace…
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