I’m thrilled to have been selected as an Artist in Residence at the Ladies’ Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath in London, as part of its Centenary celebrations. From Autumn Equinox 2025 to Autumn Equinox 2026, I’ll be exploring the pond as a place of transformation and sublimation, celebrating its profound importance in the lives of thousands of women and girls who have swum there over the century. In my experiments I’ll be extracting the coloured compounds and fibres from the surrounding flora, harnessing electricity from the microbial life in the mud, to construct and power delicate kinetic structures. This brings together many of the things that really excite me: chemistry, colour, plants, electricity, alchemy, making new things to share with new audiences!

Alongside this, I continue hands-on conservation and survey work in my local urban Ancient Woodland - Queen’s Wood in north London.  This beautiful and fragile ecosystem has evolved, with varying human interventions, over centuries, possibly thousands of years. Like most public green spaces, it finds itself under pressure from all directions - marooned by urban development, loved to death during Covid lockdowns, and now having to respond to the floods and droughts of climate change.