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iNsEcurE

  • Reading and live microscopy at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD. Featuring projections of local microbial samples, and a colony of Colpidium colpoda grown from decomposing Valentine’s Day roses.

GEOPOÈTIQUES

  • Watercolour paintings shown in ‘iNsEcurE’ at Glasgow Project Room, March - April 2024. Initiated by Aniara Omann, with Elísabet Brynhildardóttir, Clémentine Coupau, Che Go Eun and Soft Tissue. Gansai Tambi watercolour, acid-free layout paper, kinesiology tape.

    Review-essay by Maria Sledmere.

EVOLVER

  • Narrative script for EVOLVER, a virtual reality experience exploring the body’s ecosystem.

    EVOLVER premiered at Tribeca Festival, was narrated by Cate Blanchett and co-produced by Terence Malick.

    Exhibition History:

    2023/2024: Works of Nature, at ACMI, Melbourne, Australia (23 Nov – 14 Apr)

    2023: OPERA NARODOWA, Warsaw, Poland (12 Oct – 10 Dec)

    2023: WAVE MUSEUM, Seoul, South Korea (17 Jun – 17 Sep)

    2022: GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Geneva, Switzerland (04 Nov – 13 Nov)

    2022: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL, New York, United States (10 Jun – 19 Jun)

In The Round

  • A collaboration with Brigid Elva, commissioned by Kelder Press.

    Essay & illustrations responding to the theme of ‘In the Round’. Available to purchase here.

Garden of Ediacara

  • A collaboration with sound artist and composer Ludwig Berger, consisting of track titles for an album, Garden of Ediacara, forthcoming with -ous.

Pastoral Complex

  • Poem/script commissioned for Pastoral Complex, a performance installation by Pa.LaC.E at La Becque, Switzerland.

    Pastoral Complex is a drawing room reproducing the conditions of a single contour line on the sub-alpine peak Culan where there is 14.3% oxygen available. It is a test-site for gossiping in a suboptimal brain-state, with reduced performative capacity. The work learns from the short-lived movement in the 19th century of compressed 'air-bathing', echoing the days when urbanites sought “healthful” often alpine environments, particularly those in the vicinity of La Becque.

Five Tongues

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  • Lockdown Commission, University of Edinburgh Art Collection

    Written between May and July 2020, Five Tongues takes its title from the name for the common weed green alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens.

    It is part lockdown diary & part series of anecdotes on botany, taxonomy, colour, amateur microscopy, symbiogenesis & botanical solfège by way of Jamaica Kincaid & Linnaeus, among others.

    Double-sided risograph printed in an edition of 100; copies were sold to raise funds for Black Minds Matter UK and Ubuntu Womens Shelter.

    Please get in touch if you would like to read the digital version.

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  • A collaborative serial fiction project for MAP Magazine following the exploits of Colin Clout—a sixteenth century persona of dissent, here reimagined as art critic.

    Concieved & edited by Daisy Lafarge with contributions from William Kherbek, Eley Williams, Susan Finlay, Suzanne van der Lingen, Sarah Tripp & Simon Buckley, Khairani Barokka, Jeremy Millar, Alberta Whittle and Sophie Collins. Design & illustration by Jame St Finlay.

    Chapters online and in print at MAP.

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  • Speculative fiction exploring the colonial history of plant-hunting and the amassing of botanical specimens. Filmed in the glasshouses of Glasgow and Edinburgh’s botanical gardens.

    Exhibitions and screenings include Talbot Rice Gallery, Scottish Sculpture Studios and Tate St Ives.

    It was acquired by the University of Edinburgh Art Collection in 2016, awarded the John Watson Art Prize and selected for RSA New Contemporaries 2017.

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