Creative Practice in Research
Here, some images from current creative research. Visit my blog: for more detail and up to date developments, journals and thinking-out-loud. Longstanding creative research on projects which are fairly established in my practice, but still get added to, are accessible under the Documented Works tab.
Some images below from my current research project, 'Eerie Beans', or 'An Art-Archaeology of Runner Beans'. The aim is to creatively research the ecosystem of runner beans in the UK.
Runner beans are an import to the UK from Middle America, subject to the Columbian Exchange, around 400 years ago. Here they have few predators in their limited ecosystem. The current aims of my research is to explore those ecosystem gaps widely and materially, and wonder how these might close or otherwise become filled. This is a way to question isolation of species within anthropocentric logic.
As in much of my art, I am influenced by Timothy Morton writing on ecology and 'humankind', Mark Fisher about 'The Weird and the Eerie' and Jane Bennett on the vitality of the non-human.
Some images below from my current research project, 'Eerie Beans', or 'An Art-Archaeology of Runner Beans'. The aim is to creatively research the ecosystem of runner beans in the UK.
Runner beans are an import to the UK from Middle America, subject to the Columbian Exchange, around 400 years ago. Here they have few predators in their limited ecosystem. The current aims of my research is to explore those ecosystem gaps widely and materially, and wonder how these might close or otherwise become filled. This is a way to question isolation of species within anthropocentric logic.
As in much of my art, I am influenced by Timothy Morton writing on ecology and 'humankind', Mark Fisher about 'The Weird and the Eerie' and Jane Bennett on the vitality of the non-human.