Metis jacket & trousers. Many thanks to @millertown1 for lending me ‘what artists wear’, Charlie Porter…Agnes Martins outfit reminded me of baggy pants from egg. I lived in them, my pairs are now bald, padding out …terracotta is fresh @window135

27.08.23

too hot rock

Alice McCabe (UK) and Amy Ash (CA) have been collaborating on creative
projects since 2017. Their collaborative work, under the moniker of
Adventitious Routes & Rhizomes, looks to the characteristics, language,
mythology and historical contexts of plants for guidance. With plants as their
mentors, Adventitious Routes & Rhizomes translate plant wisdom through
varied methodologies as a means to both disrupt systems and discuss
difficult topics that resonate into the realm of human communities. Previous
projects have focused on immigration, queer ecologies, and disrupting
colonial histories.
Adventitious Routes & Rhizomes last worked together in 2019 through the
Cultivar Residency, where they were hosted by @museumoftheflatearth on
Fogo Island, Newfoundland, off the Atlantic Coast of Canada. The Museum of
the Flat Earth is an offshoot of the absurdist conceptual platform, the
Canadian Flat Earth Society, which was founded by Leo Ferrari, Alden Nowlan
and Ray Fraser in the 70s. The Museum of the Flat Earth in Fogo Island, is
run by Kay Burns who uses Flat Earth Theory as a playful curatorial platform
and means of promoting critical thought, investigation and research in and via art.

Plas Bodfa is a 100 year old manor home transformed into a gallery, art space and a community activator that creates unique, inclusive, creative projects with roots on the Isle of Anglesey and branches throughout Wales
and the world.

Plas Bodfa aims to bring together people of different ages,
knowledge bases, interests and backgrounds to share with each other, learn
from each other’s experiences and create something new collectively.

Adventitious Routes & Rhizomes look forward to presenting both new and re-fathomed works at window 135.

Many thanks to Alice & Amy. Thank you to everyone that came for gin & cake. It was a blast.

Chapeaugraphic artist…
works with a circle of felt
From the archive…painted at St Martins for my degree show in the sculpture department.

I wasn’t given a sculpture BA but one in ‘fine art’. 1972
#Acourse #stmartinsschoolofart #thelockedroom

‘The Anthotypes flower prints reflect a Romani, Roma or traveler herbal and healing tradition. They are the ghosts of the past-past illness, past days; the shared past territory and daily interaction with non-Roma. I use these prints to create an image which decolonizes memory and knowledge, a contemporary art that by synthesising historical information, portrays new ways of looking at current social issues such as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill.
I made these prints in response to assimilation; the gradual incorporation of one ethnicity and its culture into another more dominant culture in such a way that the original culture is lost. The original flower image will fade in sunlight leaving only a blank piece of paper as it cannot be ‘fixed’ or held. They are a metaphor for forced or economic assimilation which happens to ‘other’ working, minority and migrant communities all over the world. As the image fades it loses its coherence just as a community which is assimilated loses its identity.

Dan Turner

Many thanks to Dan for this installation…02.07.23-14.07.23

28.06.23-02.07.23. Molly 2015…from the archive