Projects
2024
‘The backbeat of reggae music: Barrington Chambers in Bristol’ – SEEN Magazine Issue 2 – Manchester
Community Climate Leadership Series- Eastside Community Trust – Bristol
A Q&A with Varaidzo – Africa Writes – Exeter
We Live Here – Norwich and Norfolk Festival/ Freedom Festival – Hull
2023
Cotton Capital Podcast Episode 2 The Meaning of Success – The Guardian
GROW Project, Residency at Kew Seed Bank – Trigger Stuff – Wakehurst
Black Earth workshop – Moving Collective Agency – Jersey
In conversation with Rebecca Chesney, Lucia Pietroiusti and Zakiya McKenzie – HOME Arts Centre- Manchester
Cover Article on Rhea Dillon/Fall 2023 Issue – Flash Art Magazine – Milan
Poet: Welly Walks – Alice Stevens (Arts University Bournemouth)/ Unboxed Festival – Dorset
New Beginning
Artist in Residence – Studio Voltaire – London
Nature Writing and the Brontë’s – Brontë Parsonage Museum – Haworth
Keynote Speaker: We Feed the UK/Celebrate the Solstice at Penpont – Action for Conservation – Wales
Panelist: MendEarth young peoples project – Babbasa – Bristol
‘Reclaiming Narratives: Kedisha Coakley on Art, History, and Cultural Narratives’ – Freelands Foundation – London
Almost Nothing but Blue Ground -Tom Pope and Matthew Bennington – UK
2022
Nature and Uncertainty Masterclass – Libraries Unlimited – Devon
Changing Perspectives in the Countryside – Museum of Rural English Life
A Guide to Climate & Ecological Crisis – Fehinti Balogun ‘Can I Live?’/ Complicité
Black Earth Climate Justice workshops – Tiata Fahozi – Bristol
Forest Wake this Ground – Arnolfini – Bristol
‘Newsprint of the Postwar Black British Left’ – Society for Caribbean Studies conference online
Reading, Kei Miller for Caleb Parkin’s POETRY PLEASE episode – BBC Radio 4
‘Revolutionary to Raas’, Digital Collage for The Harder They Come 50th Anniversary Exhibition – 10A Gallery – Jamaica
2021
Soil Unsoiled
Sculpture – Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail – Gloucestershire
‘The Squirrel and the Mongoose’ in the UK Green Guide – Invisible Flock
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