My pronouns are she/her

Current research interests include:

Multispecies interactions in Community Gardens

Community Gardens as sites of ‘re-commoning’

Queer ecology

Levels of biodiversity in managed gardens

Non-human protagonists

Collective joy / noise / sabotage as a means of dissent and a way to protest

Plant-based Science Fiction

Medieval instruments eg. recorders, as powerful objects charged with mystical energy

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Education:

 2023 - 2026 Teesside University / MIMA - Practice Based PhD (funded studentship)

​2021 - 2023 - RHS Hyde Hall - Practical Horticulture Level 2

2019 - Open School East - Associate, Margate

2015 - 2017 - Slade School of Fine Art - MA Fine Art Media, Distinction, London

2007 - 2010 Camberwell College of Art - BA Hons Fine Art Painting, 1st Class, London

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Prizes and Awards:

2023 RHS Bursary, Drought Tolerant Planting in the South East of England (Research Trip)

2023 RHS Apprentice Award

2020 Recipient of the Time Space Money A-N Bursary

2017-2018 Recipient of The FLAMIN Fellowship

2016 Recipient of The Clare Winsten Memorial Award, Slade School of Fine Art

Visiting Artist & Lecturer:

Falmouth University, Cornwall

The Margate School, Margate

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Residencies:

​2022/23 The Margate School 'Society Innovation Nature' residency, Margate

2019 Like a Gassy Big Ball or Something Fluid, Well Projects Margate

2019 FLAMIN / Sardinian Film Commission / MAN Museum Nuoro, Sardinia

2017 The Merzbarn Residency, Cumbria

Talks and Workshops :

2024 Online Talk - Artist Voices: In Conversation with Anna Bunting-Branch, Rosie Carr and Helen Starr, God’s House Tower (Online)

2024 Recordermania Workshop - Ramsgate Festival of Sound

2024 Workshop - Composting Poetry, The Windmill Gardens, Margate

2024 Presentation - DTA Researchers Summer School, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

2024 Instrument Making Workshop - ‘Gardens in Space’ - Garden Gate Project, Margate

2024 Instrument Making Workshop - Block 336, Brixton, London

2023 Artist Talk - Falmouth University

2023 Recordermania Workshop - Lewisham Art House

2022 Recordermania Workshop ‘ Recorders in Space’ - Margate School

2022 Recordermania Workshop - Supernormal Festival

2022 The Plants Talk Back Workshop - Margate Now Festival

Selected Exhibitions and Performances:

2024 Solo Performance - Ramsgate Festival of Sound, St George’s Church, Ramsgate

2024 Solo Performance - ‘Ceremonial Laptop: Plant Composition’ The Rose Hill, Brighton

2024 Exhibition - Music composed for ‘Holding Space’ a film by Anna Bunting Branch. God’s House Tower, Southampton

2024 Exhibition - ‘3rd Life’ Group Show, Casa Dona Laura, Lisbon Portugal

2023 Exhibition - ‘8’ Casa Dona Laura, Lisbon, Portugal

2023 Album Launch - ‘Yew’ The Garden Gate Project, Margate

2022 Solo Performance - Elsewhere, Margate

2022 Solo Performance - The Cube MicroPlex, Bristol

2021 Exhibition - The Turner Open - Turner Contemporary, Margate

2020 Musical release - Potato Band - Garden Ghost EP (online) Thanet Tape Centre

2020 Exhibition - Care / Community /  Ecology (Online) Collaboration with Jemma Cullen and East Kent Mencap, Almanac, Bermondsey,  London

2020 Exhibition - Onomatopoeia Club (Online) Collaboration with Cosmo Sheldrake

2019 Performance - Potato Band @ Natalie Kynigopoulou's exhibition: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, The Garage, Nicosia, Cyprus

2019 Performance - Potato Band 'Sticky' Performance at Benedict Drew's exhibition: Trapped in a Sticky Shed with Side Chain Compression, IMT Gallery, London, UK

2019 Exhibition - The Reception was Brilliant (Open School East Final Show) Margate, UK

2019 Screening - Hyperlinked, Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK

2019 Exhibition - Yan Tan Tether, South Kiosk, Huddersfield, UK

2019 Exhibition - The Theory of Concentric Spheres, South Kiosk, London, UK

2018 Screening - The FLAMIN Fellowship screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

​2018 Screening - Technologies of Romance Symposium, Science Museum, London, UK

2018 Screening - Rebel Souls - Daata Editions, Art Rio, Brazil

2018 Exhibition - The Photocopier who Fell in Love with Me - Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK 

2017 Exhibition - Three - Rua Dom Carlos, Lisbon, Portugal

2017 Screening - Diep~Haven Festival WORK - UK Film Programme, Newhaven, UK

2017 Screening - Selected VII - Whitechapel Gallery, Fabrica Brighton, Nottingham Contemporary, Plymouth Arts Centre, Arnolfini, UK

2017 Exhibition - MA Degree Show - Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

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