anthropocene aesthetics

A Modern Lapidary

June 10th - 15th Sept 2024

Whewell Mineral Gallery, Sedgwick Museum of Earth Science, Cambridge

An Extractive Index

10 June - 15th Sept 2024

Whewell Mineral Gallery, Sedgwick Museum of Earth Science, Cambridge

Lithic Entanglements

September 22 ongoing

With the support of ACE DYCP funding I have been conducting research in the collections and archives of The Lapworth and Sedgwick Earth Science Musuems, responding imaginatively to objects and experimenting with video, animation and collage in order to reflect on the social, political and metaphysical meanings of Mineralogy collections.

In Love with the Lithosphere – journeying towards the Anthropocene through the Paper Landscapes of the Modern

2022

Postcards from the Anthropocene. Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation

Paper Landscapes

2022

Postcards from the Anthropocene - DPR Barcelona

Mimetic

2020 - ongoing

Ocassional body of work documenting artificial plants in public settings

Areola

1 - 4 February 2019

Florence Trust, London

Geo/Studio

2015-21

GeoStudio was a research group, of staff and post-graduates within the Department of Arts at Northumbria University, convened by me as Professor of Fine Art, engaged in research around: the politics and aesthetics of geo-materiality; the geologic /​material turn in contemporary culture; post human nature; the legacies of land art; the studio /​field as a critical axis.