Cultivating Kin: A Queer Ecologies Primer

  • A 90 minute lecture and workshop series considering onto-epistemiological approaches to ecological understanding, de-bordering and categorisation in taxonomy, and postnatural approaches to ecological relationality.

    Commissioned by The Landworker’s Alliance. Also delivered at The Glasgow School of Art and The Wildlife Trusts

Conversations With Plants

  • Do ecologies speak? In what ways do plants think? How do we relate to our vegetal kin?

    Five-part audio exploration of plant sensing, conversation, and perceptions. Drawing on philosophical approaches to knowledge, these audio pieces are built to guide the listener through the undergrowth.

Queer Botanies for Seed Savers

  • Applying a queer lens to botany: plants, pollination, taxonomy, seeds. Understanding colonial, homophobic roots of Western Science.

    A conference workshop commissioned by The Gaia Foundation for the 2023 Seed Sovereignty Conference.

Plant Thinking: Greener Possibilities

  • Day-long explorative workshop & facilitated discussion. Vegetal meditation & philosophical considerations of phyto-knowledge. Delivered at Deveron Projects, commissioned by Artist Hussein Mitha.

How Plants Learn

  • Three-part workshop series commissioned by the Glasgow Seed Library at the Centre for Contemporary Arts.

    Stress in the garden: how climate impacts how plants grow / From environment to genes: how plants remember and adapt / Adversity and diversity: seed saving, evolution and resilience

Hortecology: Urban Garden Civic Science

  • A five-part project working with Hidden Garden’s volunteers to develop and deliver an ecological monitoring project about observation and emotion.

    Funded by The British Ecological Association, delivered and developed with Dr Miranda Bane & The Hidden Gardens, Glasgow.

A History of Memory in DNA

  • Commissioned by Kien Denier as a part of the ‘Our World, The World To Come’ exhibition at 16 Nicholson Street. Examining DNA, trauma, epigenetics, histories, in plants and people.

Plantastic: Plants Are Boring

  • “How do we foster plant enthusiasm in younger audiences? How can we encourage them to fight for plants & climate?”

    A raucous 90 minute performance for Cheltenham Science Festival with Dr Russell Arnott for 700 11-16 year olds.

DNA, Diversity, Difference

  • Wellcome Collection event to mark opening of permanent exhibition ‘Being Human’. Delivered alongside poet Raymond Antrobus, academc Karim Mitha, and Natural Historian Miranda Lowe.