I am an artist and researcher who explores and nurtures a deepening relationship with the fungal realm through both an ecological and introspective lens. My practice is tactile in its approach to tracing threads of where human and more-than-human storylines coalesce, translating into a multidisciplinary contemplation on animism, myth and the interdependence of living systems. I primarily explore the materiality of fungi by growing mycelium into sculptural forms and along fibres which reflect a language that intersects ecological architecture and human cultural histories. I also investigates their materiality through the making of mushroom ‘paper’ and biosonification technology and have recently been combining textile, performance and new technological horizons to contemplate the felt, rhizomatic navigation of mycelial hyphae through somatic enquiry. A practice which draws connections between the existence tissues of mycelial networks and the fascia of animal bodies, both substantially unexplored areas of human study.

Throughout human history, cultures have swayed within the mycophilic and mycophobic spectrum, a fungal-human history seeped in ritual, mystery and folklore. Most knowledge gathered by the founders of modern mycology came from conversations with folk women in the marketplaces of Central and Eastern Europe. Though immeasurable amounts of unrecorded botanical and fungal knowledge fell alongside women lost in the witch hunts of the 15th-17th centuries. As a woman continuing a lineage of gathered fungal knowledge and exploration, I feel it is equally important to learn from these organisms through creative engagement as well as methodological scientific study.