What is the role of art in uncertain times?
Children of Compost is an artistic practice exploring how we relate to a living and changing world. Working across moving image, sound, installation, participation and generative media, the practice brings artistic processes into conversation with ecology, technology and collective experience.
Projects often begin with something that cannot be fully known: the electrical activity of plants, fungal networks, climate systems, geological time, darkness, or the dynamics that emerge between people. Through listening, experimentation and collaboration, these become ways of paying attention to relationships that are often difficult to perceive.
Children of Compost is also a space for sharing these processes, an evolving collection of projects, methodologies, questions and reflections.
Practice
The form of a project is not always clear at the beginning. I often start with an intuition, a question or something that has awakened my curiosity, allowing the direction to develop through attention, experimentation and the relationships that emerge along the way.
Technology can extend perception towards signals and behaviours that our senses cannot access directly, but every translation is partial. Sensors, code, tools and artistic decisions alter what becomes perceptible. Technology opens a door while also interfering with what we encounter.
Collaboration introduces another kind of interference. Ideas can be altered, contradicted and taken somewhere they would not have reached through working alone. My practice explores the ecology of relationships between people, places, organisms, technologies and materials, recognising the interdependence between them.
Within this complexity, art becomes a space for paying attention, relating, imagining and experiencing other ways of being present.
This is a selection of some of my latest projects and collaborations
St00rm
works with dynamic systems and the forces that continually reorganise them across ecological, technological, political and social scales.
NooN
is an ongoing collaboration exploring collective improvisation and process-led creation across sound, movement and moving image.
Cultivating the WE
A project created for the bioregional learning centre in Devon that brings people together through collective sensing and shared creative practices.
Coming of age
Uses AI-generated imagery to imagine a dystopian future where an ageing population faces climatic and economic transformation in a society struggling to adapt.
Plantae
Brings plants, musicians and technology into dialogue, translating plant bioelectricity into sound as a starting point for collective improvisation.
Attune
Is a one-day workshop using sensors and microphones to uncover and explore the hidden sounds of the natural world.
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Workshops & Creative Mentoring
