I am absolutely thrilled to be an upcoming artist in residency at the Laboratory of Plants Microbes and Environment Interactions (LIPME) which belongs to the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the largest science agency in Europe, and the INRAE, France’s new National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. In 2023, I’ll be developing my next project Artists A-Z, which takes a non-anthropocentric scientific and philosophical perspective, to acknowledge plants’ intelligence, agency, interiority, and artistic capabilities.
In the upcoming weeks, I’ll be presented at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse as the new established artist taking part in residency while I also acting as a jury member of the panel choosing the 2023 emerging artists supported by the 1+2 residency programme.
I have been invited by Piedra, Papel, Tijera to take part in PPT Open Art Festival which will take place at the Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras and Sede Universitaria Ciudad de Alicante. Some early tests from the series Studies on my Grandma´s Garden will be on exhibition during the months of September - October. I will also give a talk at the University of Alicante together with artists Miguel Moreno, Lot Amorós and Fran Simó.
Fisheye Gallery has commissioned me to produce an artwork in relation to the 170 anniversary of the “bee” bottle. The commission will be on exhibition at La Maison Guerlain, 68, avenue des Champs- Elysées,
from the 8th of March to the end of June, and at Art Dubai.
I am delighted to be a member of the panel of the Thamesmead Culture Fund which provides regular grants via the London Community Foundation to support activities in Thamesmead that connect the community and support social and cultural activities.
I moved to Thamesmead (South East London) in April 2018. As a previous awardee of this fund, I was invited to join the panel to assess and decide upon new applications together with other members of the panel.
I am excited to share that The Pigment Change has been on display at Photo London in two booths!
Nikon space and Fisheye Gallery.
I am delighted to share that Maza Art! will be auctioning a piece from The Pigment Change, Studies in my Grandma’s Garden.
This March I have been invited to take part in a week-long series of lectures and workshops at KASK, School of Arts Ghent.
I am beyond thrilled to take part in this event along with invited students and staff from Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia) International Center of Photography (New York, USA) Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Lucerne, Switzerland) KABK (Den Haag, Netherlands) KASK (Ghent, Belgium) and University of Tehran (Teheran, IRN).
Artists invited were: Patrick Waterhouse, Adam Broomberg, Erick Kessels, Leigh Ledare, Annelys De Vet and myself.
As part of Open Eye Gallery LOOK Climate Lab I have been invited to exhibit my work together as part of Land Art Agency.
The exhibition runs from the 9th of February to the 20th and also includes Land Art artists Louis Quail and Melanie King.
I am happy to start 2022 with a nomination to the Louise Roeder Art Prize for Sustainability. I have also been awarded ACAVA (Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art) Studio Fund.
Coming back from Paris The Pigment Change has been featured in the podcast L’Œil écoute, as well as in the magazines Lomography and Better Photography India.