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Raise a Toast

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.

The Slick of Joy

5 Feb 2018

A video work for Laura White’s Tenderfoot website. On the slow transformation of materials. Jan 2018

The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind

29 Dec 2017

I'm showing some objects found and witten about during summer residency at Phytology, at this huge exhibition, with 50 other international artists and creatives, goats, cheese, fish and microbes. This survey show explores the contradictory nature of society’s relationship to the rural, bringing together art, architecture, nature, farming, conservation, food and education.

The Sausage Sessions

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 […]

Contain Yourself! Materials and food – BBC World Service

5 Nov 2017

Contain Yourself! The Food Chain, BBC World Service Sun 5 Nov 2017 Does your favourite drink taste better from a bottle, cup or can? Are foods enhanced by particular plates or packaging? Or is it all in your head? Emily Thomas is joined by materials specialist Ellie Doney and food psychologist Charles Spence […]

Transformative Technology through Food: Foam

30 Jun 2017

An evening of foams and the body, part of the UCL Art Museum's Transformative Technologies Festival
Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury
6-9pm, 16 June 2017

Journey to the Interior: Sugar Metamorphics

8 May 2017

An experimental sensory encounter with sugar as a shape-shifting material: a liquid, a glass, a fibre, a foam and a crystal, and its transformative properties upon history, culture, our bodies and our future.

Phytology Residency 2017

25 Apr 2017

This summer I will be one of the resident artists at Phytology, digging, foraging and articulating the material history of the site, and transforming the residency hut into an experiemental museum.

Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, Work,

17 Mar 2016

I have new work in AMP’s inaugural exhibition next week – a new gallery in Queen’s Road Peckham – PV Thursday 24 March 6-9pm, the show runs til 9 April. All welcome!

Organolepts – Science Museum

29 Sep 2015

I am exhibiting and discussing my Organolepts, terracotta vessels at the Science Museum’s Late event, September 30, 6pm, as part of the recent exhibition Cravings: Can your food control you

Shelfie – Manifold selects from the V&A collection

20 Mar 2015

Manifold selects works from the the V&A Ceramics and Glass collections, on view in the galleries from the 20th March – 13th April.

Festival of Pots at Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

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 […]