‘as poietic event, artwork keeps the ‘open’ open, thereby ensuring that meaning is not blocked in the nihilistic sameness of technological enframing but available for poietical becoming in re-attunement with nature’ (warwick mules – heidegger, nature philosophy and art as poietic event – transformations, journal of media & culture, issue 21, rethinking the seasons: new approaches to nature – 2012)

interiorities #3 orchard reef (lumen/photo montage - apple tree lichens, walled garden, penryn campus, cornwall, march 2024)

archiving the anthropocene (part two)

the walled garden
the development of pigments, inks and other responses from the walled garden of tremough house (1718), penryn campus, cornwall (with russell burden)
mineral pigments: path slate, border quartz, wall brick, wall granite. calcined soil.
flower inks: banana bud (ochre orange), camillia (pink), hellebore (grey-green), rosemary (mauve), narcissus (yellow) , muscari (purple)
other inks: moss, lichen, lichen carbon, knopper galls & water-tank iron, dried monkey puzzle leaves, dried ‘aloe striatula’ seed pods, rhododendron seed heads and stamens.
fluids: pond water, apple cider, wood-ash lye.

location: penryn campus (university of exeter)
date: march 2024
with: russell burden (artist)

interiorities #6 encrustation (monochrome apple tree branch, calcined soil, moss, lichen ink overlays, walled garden, penryn campus, cornwall, 2024)

five flower inks: think-layer chromatography

chromatography (penryn inks, 2024)
interiorities #4 fugitive separations (penryn inks, 2024)
interiorities #9 quiescence one (penryn inks on paper, 2024)

hellebore, narcissus, muscari, camellia, banana bud: pooled on paper

interiorities #11
interiorities #12
interiorities #13

division: banana bud

interiorities #5 division (walled garden, penryn campus, cornwall, march 2024)

ember clusters: lichen carbon

interiorities #8 ember clusters (lichen and flame, walled garden, penryn campus, cornwall)

interiorities #7 bifurcation (lichen branches, walled garden, penryn campus, cornwall)

interiorities #14 quiescence two (flower inks, apple cider, calcined soil, lichen carbon, penryn campus, cornwall, 2024)

thinking with wool
location: penryn campus (university of exeter)
date: march 2024
with: nicola whyte and freyja cox jensen
photography: russell burden

archiving the anthropocene (part one)

locations: wheal maid & porthallow – cornwall
with: nicola whyte (environmental arts and humanities). freyja cox jensen (early modern history), ruth thurstan (biosciences), russell burden (artist)

interiorities #1 (ascophyllum sp. seaweed lumen one, porthallow, november 2023)
interiorities #2 (ascophyllum sp. seaweed lumen, porthallow, november 2023)

november 2023
1. wheal maid field trip and discussion: the wheal maid documentation and artistic output of russell burden and craig tattersall. including jim scown (soil humanities, exeter)
2. gyllyngvase beach, falmouth field trip and lecture: historic oyster beds with ruth thurstan. rock pools and strandline observation
3. porthallow field trip, practical group and discussion about expanding the notion of what constitutes an ‘image’: the lizard sub mantel geology, lumen prints made from strandline collections of natural and man made objects. discussion with amber leaman (3rd year undergraduate at university college falmouth) about porthoustock quarry stone. discussion with rob magnuson smith, (creative writing, exeter) author of ‘seaweed rising’ november 2023, sandstone press
4. post event work: creation of wheal maid toxic pigments (russell burden)

material culture workshop & silent voices, confronting the hostile archive

1. material engagement workshop, creativity with clay
the artist forms clay whilst clay informs the artist
date: june 2023
location: exeter campus, devon
with: freyja cox jensen (early modern history), russell burden (artist)

2. silent voices: confronting the hostile archive – june 2023
roundtable: panel discussion
location: exeter campus, devon
chaired by: freyja cox jensen (early modern history)

mapping the world otherwise

university of exeter (penryn), climate emergency field trip
riverwork project discussions, map making facilitation
date: june 2023
location: hypatia trust, penzance. geevor mine, st just, cornwall
with: nicola whyte (environmental humanities), freyja cox jensen (early modern history), henrietta simson (artist), russell burden (artist)