IN SEARCH OF FLORA
Co-curation project (residencies, exhibitions and publications). 2012 – ongoing
King’s College London

In Search of Flora

In Search of Flora was originally developed as a form of life-writing as part of the Strandlines commission and multi-disciplinary residency at King’s College London. The work surveys transient, downtrodden and overlooked inhabitants, coexisting with the features and fixtures of busy thoroughfares in the contemporary European metropolis. Through this search for flora the work explores precarious existence and resilience in social space.

Images show (in no particular order):
In Search of Flora, Athens (2019), Lisbon (2015), London (2012), Madrid (2015).

Summary:
Research residencies staying at several different sites / research project with exhibitions, talks and publications / public programmes / cultural programme

Strandlines Artists (London survey):
Luce Choules
Matilda Leyser
Julie McKee
Ruth O’Callaghan
Lucy Steggals
Jane Wildgoose

Strandlines project partners (London survey):
Clare Brant, Strandlines Project Director, co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, and Professor of Eighteenth-century Literature & Culture in the English Department at King’s College London, UK | Hope Wolf, Senior Lecturer in Modernism (English), School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK | David Green, Professor of Historical Geography in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, UK | AIM25 educational charity | King’s College London Archives | Westminster City Archives.

Keywords:
Environmental Art, Curated Landscapes, Cultural Tourism, Industrial Ruin, Physical/Human Geography, Ecology and Botany, Survey, Fieldwork.

Cabinet of Artist projects for 2011-12 (London survey) funded by:
King’s College London, UK, and London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange, Somerset House, London, UK

    

Link to Artist Cabinet
Link to Strandlines digital community
Link to KCL Centre for Life Writing Research