our lives with fungi – PhD exhibition

Opening at 4pm Tuesday 2nd August, til Friday 5th August 2022 (10am-5pm)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

This week-long exhibition will follow my two-week artist-researcher residency at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and marks the conclusion of the fieldwork for my PhD in the School of Design. The exhibition will feature illustrative works stemming from my ethnographic research of human lives with fungi in Scotland and France. The exhibition will be displayed in the RBGE Science Buildings, 20a Inverleith Row, EH3 5QR.

Working at the intersection of the arts, environmental humanities and mycology as an illustrator-ethnographer, my research seeks to illustrate and re/imagine our lives with fungi in the context of the Anthropocene. I conduct ethnographic dialogues with people who work with and explore fungi in everyday life, whether forest walkers, gardeners, cooks, brewers or mycologists. I attend to the heterogeneous biological group of fungi in all its manifest forms — from mushrooms sprouting from mycelium (roots) to lichens, parasites, moulds or yeasts — and I explore how fungi can be diversely understood from culinary delicacies to ecological nightmares.