Exhibition

A Shrine to Hawthorn

Climate. Emergency. Hope., Turnpike Gallery, Leigh. 2023.

Rich in folklore and medicine as well as a protective habitat for birds, Hawthorn is a plant for our times; it regulates blood circulation, increasing flow to the heart helping us to feel and move through grief and loss. Hawthorn often marks a boundary from the Enclosure Acts which took approx 1/5 of England’s area into private ownership (between 1604 - 1914 over 5200 enclosure Bills were passed by Parliament).

Hawthorn watercolour, petri dish with Hawthorn dyed SCOBY, Hawthorn ink & medicinal tincture, gilded Hawthorn branch, Hawthorn drawn in Hawthorn ink.

Exhibition

Materials Describe Themselves: Hawthorn

EOP members show 2024

Down to Earth was part of 'Lapworth Lates', a valentines evening arts event at Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham. The programme of films, talks and workshops considered human relationships.

Workshop

Down to Earth

Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham

Down to Earth was part of late night opening for valentines at Lapworth Museum of Geology. The event was themed around human relationships.

Based in the beautiful mineral gallery, I invited visitors to process earth pigments into watercolours while we discussed our relationship to the earth, one another and other-than-human species.

Using earth pigment watercolours and botanical inks visitors could paint a panel for a myriorama or ‘endless landscape’. Myrioramas were a Victorian card game of printed panels which could be rearranged in any order to make a continuous landscape.