I am thrilled to share that six of my artworks will be part of Frieze Week Sarabande Foundation take over 5 Carlos Place in Mayfair, in partnership with the Mount Street Neighbourhood Art Festival!

For the 2024 Sarabande Dom Perignon dinner, I created two photographic artworks featuring my grandparents, who were organic farmers. These pieces build upon the themes explored in my Family Album series, where I use living watercress and photosynthesis to create photographs, often portraying family members. This special process results in images free from toxic chemicals, plastics, and minerals, existing only temporarily before naturally decomposing.

The Family Album series is characterised by its ongoing cycle of works-in-progress and works-in-decay, challenging traditional notions of lasting materiality in photography. Instead, it presents art as ephemeral, meant to be experienced rather than possessed. In this new project, the images capture my grandparents working the land, with their faces prominently in the foreground and the landscape they cultivate visible in the background. These artworks celebrate the deep connection between people and the earth, highlighting their dedication, pride in their labor, and the legacy of care they have nurtured for other species and the land.

This project also seeks to honour the often overlooked yet essential labor of farming. The living cress artworks have been cultivated on wooden folding room dividers, creating an immersive installation that invites dinner attendees to walk through the pieces as they transition from the dining room to the cocktail area. This interactive setup allowed guests to engage closely with the artworks, enriching their experience as they seamlessly moved through the space.

I am very excited to have taken part in this year’s Sarabande summer group show with a series of new sculptures/fossils!

This month I had the pleasure of seeing my work featured in Periskop Journal and Les Carnets du paysage (Actes Sud). 

This June I took part in The Garden of Tomorrow Festival via the Nature The Artist exhibition curated by The Great Imaging (Gavin and Deborah Turk association) in collaboration with Hard Art Collective (Brian Eno Studio). It brought together the works of over 50 different artists, writers and musicians who use their creativity to honour the natural world.  The festival was organised by House of Hackney.  

I also took part in a group exhibition at  Marie Jose Gallery, organised by Daughters for Earth co-directed by Iraqi American women’s rights activist, writer, television show host, and podcaster Zainab Salbi. The exhibition was part of the Kensington + Chelsea Art Week.