Origin Stories

These pieces were created during a residency at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London: Radical Residency VII.  For me the 'radical' part was looking into some of the literal roots (radix) of our current ecological situation, by researching more about how plants were shipped across the globe and planted in new places, away from their slowly-formed networks of interdependent species, setting of a series of knock-off effects. These pieces look at the rampant collecting and moving of plants species around the globe during the era of exploration/exploitation, using as materials and references found images and maps, herbaria (a preserved plant specimen), found objects and text.

Origin Stories (2022) Mixed media (maps, eucyalptus leaves, toy boat and text), dimensions variable. (Image Courtesy Unit 1 Gallery|Workshop & Paul Tucker Photography)

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