Projects

For What the Folk? Fest, I led a small-group workshop in the Museum’s Herb Garden exploring the role plants play in everyday life and the personal meanings attached to them.

For the launch of Beyond Botanical, I led a large-scale public programme based on the book, combining drawing and journaling with a guided immersion and live acoustic music performed by Diana Vela.

Different papers, watercolours and pigment granulation were tested while developing a substantial part of the illustration work for Beyond Botanical, including the cover image and work used across several sections of the book.

In FLOWERS – Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture, paintings developed during the Sarabande residency were presented alongside tattoo photography and short documentary films across two gallery walls at Saatchi Gallery.

Embodied Surfaces began with research in the Garden and its private library. More than 200 people responded to an open call, from which one participant was selected for an outdoor tattoo session.

As Sarabande Foundation’s first tattoo artist in residence, I returned to painting through works on paper and experiments with plant-dyed canvas.

Conversations with local plant specialists and residents led to separate collaborations with two photographers, alongside outdoor tattoo sessions in and around Nosara.

After researching the Gallery’s collection and archive, a participant was selected through an open call for a botanical tattoo created live during London Craft Week.