I was invited to give an artist talk and field workshop in the Sørmarka forest by CREATURE and the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at Stavanger University.
This workshop explored arts-based methods as modes of investigative engagement and environmental enquiry. The participating group spanned environmental humanities, policy, history, design, energy humanities, human geography, geology, literature, technology, science, and fine art.
I recently published a journal article in Applied Phycology Journal that focuses on cross-disciplinary research I conducted in the lab and field during my residency at The Scottish Association for Marine Science.
My visual poems ‘Close Readings’ were exhibited as part of the international group show ‘Visions of Scale’ at NCAD Gallery in Dublin. This work comprises microscopic images of microalgae and poems written in response to the organisms and was developed during my residency at The Scottish Association for Marine Science. The exhibition and accompanying symposium explored alternative perspectives on scale, bringing together artists, theorists, architects, and art historians, including Josh DiCaglio, Jye O’Sullivan, Meredith Tromble, Jane Prophet, Donal Lally, Dulmini Perera, Renato Pera, and more.
‘Close Readings’ was exhibited as part of ‘The Living Library’, an exhibition of innovative material and visual ecological poetry curated by Briony Hughes, Caroline Harris, Katie McGettigan and Redell Olson. The show was part of the Being Human National Festival of the Humanities at Landmark Arts Centre in partnership with the Poetics Research Centre at Royal Holloway University.
In September I led a field workshop ‘Making and Unmaking the Meadow’ with my collaborative practice Matterlurgy in Rebel Farm, Kent, as part of ‘Making of a a Meadow’, a project by Jess Potter supported by the Royal College of Art.
This summer, I was an artist in residence at Cove Park with my collaborative practice Matterlurgy, where we developed field work methods and planned future projects and collaborations.
I gave a presentation, ‘Algae Poetics: practice research with poetry and marine science’ and read poems at the Hydropoetry in Practice symposium organised by the Poetics Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London.
I presented a paper at the international conference: ‘Uncommon Senses: Sensing the Social and Environmental across the Arts and Sciences’ and read a series of new poems, sharing cross-disciplinary practice research at The Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal, 7-10 May.
Culture collection of Algae and Protozoa, Scottish Association of Marine Science
I read poems from my projects ‘Falling Birds’ (Horniman Museum) and ‘Algae Ecologies’ (Scottish Association of Marine Science) alongside poet Isabel Galleymore and Jon Woodward (Harvard Museum of Natural History) as part of Unnatural Histories, a series of events and conversations organised by Dr. Verity Burke, John Pollard Newman Fellow of Climate Change and the Arts at University College Dublin.
My poems ‘Telephone Exchange’ and ‘Tape Relay’ have been published in Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age, edited by Sarah Jackson and Daniel Cordel, published by Five Leaves Press. Contributing authours include: Zayneb Allak, Hannah Cooper-Smithson, Anthony Cropper, Ailbhe Darcy, Jay Gao, Delphine Grass, Jonathan Hogg, Helena Hunter, Martine Hamilton Knight (photography), Phil Leonard, Jon McGregor, Andrew Taylor, Maria Gil Ulldemolins.
I was interviewed about my artist residency at the Scottish Association of Marine Science (SAMS) by Euan Paterson, the SAMS Ocean Explorer Podcast host. In this podcast episode, ‘Poetic Sampling: Where Art and Science Collide, ’ I discuss some of the projects I developed at SAMS with marine ecologist Alasdair O'Dell, including the development of poems and artworks through snorkelling fieldwork in the kelp forests of the West Highlands. The Ocean Explorer podcast is produced by the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), an ocean research institute and partner of UHI, based in Oban.
I’ll be a Researcher in Residence at The Scottish Association of Marine Science (SAMS) in 2024. I’ll be working with Marine Biologists near Oban on the Scottish west coast, contributing to the Toxic Phytoplankton Monitoring program, the Experimental Seaweed Farms, and working with the world's most diverse Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa.
Critical-creative paper 'Fathoming the microbial sea: scaling with algae across poetry and science' presented at Arizona State University in October as part of the SLSA Alien conference, keynote Karen Barad. The paper was part of ‘Visions of Scale’ panel with scale theorists Joshua Dicaglio and Zachary Horton.
Critical-poetic readings, film and sound works from Postnatural Supernatural and Falling Birds will be presented at Café Oto along with new works as part of ‘Music and Other Living Creatures X Encounters: On Capture’ with Hermione Spriggs and Mark Peter Wright on Tuesday, 25 July 2023, 8 pm. Book tickets here.
Postnatural Supernatural has been published in The Contemporary Journal at Nottingham Contemporary, in the Emergency and Emergence strand, edited by Canan Batur. Postnatural Supernatural comprises three short films that consider tree spirit beliefs within rural communities of the Philippines and how these intersect with colonisation, deforestation and bird decline. The films form part of Sourcebook – a collaborative research project and exhibition LUX Moving Image and Het Nieuwe Instituut's Research Center with artist Mandy El- Sayegh and curator Renan Laru-an that explores curatorial and artistic practices in UK and Philippine contexts.
Field Casting an exhibition by Matterlurgy runs at Titanik Gallery in Turku (Finland) from 3 Feb - 2 Mar 2023. The exhibition investigates scientific ‘fieldwork’ as a site and subject of study, zooming in on the practices, tools and perspectives embroiled in the production of climate data. It explores the relationship between field practice and automated data collection and highlights knowledge as an event that is materially entangled with the lives of humans and nonhumans. The exhibition was curated by Taru Elfving and commissioned by CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago in collaboration with the Archipelago Research Institute (University of Turku).
NOAA-18, London, 18 February 2022, 10:52 UTC. open-weather CC BY 4.0.
Listening with Eunice, a text and audio work made in collaboration with Mark Peter Wright has been published in MAP Magazine. The piece was commissioned by Daniela Cascella as part of her year-long editorial series ‘A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras’, which includes contributions by Richard Skelton, Ella Finer and James Wilkes, Alice Butler, Christof Migone, Autumn Richardson and many more. The image of Storm Eunice featured in the work was created by Sasha Engelmann and Sophie Dyer as part of open-weather, a project experimenting with images and imaginaries of earth using DIY community tools.
Air Morphologies a new panoramic film made in collaboration with artsXR will be on show at The Wellcome Collection as part of the group exhibition In the Air, until Oct 2022. The exhibition includes work by Tacita Dean, David Rickard, Dryden Goodwin, Forensic Architecture, Choked Up, Anna Atkins, Black and Brown Films, Irene Kopelman, Ernst Haeckel and John Evelyn.
Onassis Stegi presents Weather Engines a group show curated by Jussi Parikka and Daphne Dragona 1 April - 15 May 2022. The exhibition features Matterlurgy’s film Hydromancy and a newly commissioned work Data Dialogues made in collaboration with scientists at the National Oceanography Centre UK.
Sourcebook is a collaborative research project and exhibition at LUX with artist Mandy El-Sayegh and curator Renan Laru-an that explores curatorial and artistic practices in UK and Philippine contexts. In moving image form the exhibition compiles aesthetic output in the layering of surfaces that can be experienced as cuts and transitions, aural notations in speech and poetry, or paratextual excess of found objects and frequencies. Thu 27 Jan - Sun 6 Mar 2022, Wednesday - Saturday, 12 pm-4 pm, LUX & LUX Online.