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A Wider Community Gathering & Exhibition at Braziers Park brought together artists selected from an open call with facilitators offering hands-on workshops and drop-in activities. Centred on the theme of soil, the four-day event invited creative exploration of our relationship with the land through art, dialogue, and shared experience.
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The first in the Sphagnum Portraits series, this short film was commissioned by the IUCN UK Peatland Programme. Premiered in 2024, it follows the restoration of a wildfire-damaged peatland in the Peak District, highlighting Sphagnum moss’s crucial role in climate resilience and biodiversity.
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A two-day peatland-themed festival exploring the unique ecology of Oxford’s Lye Valley Nature Reserve through creative workshops led by local artists. Participants contributed to a collaborative tapestry over the weekend, weaving together art, ecology, and community as part of RE-PEAT’s international Peat Fest series celebrating all things peaty.
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A creative engagement workshop developed with RE-PEAT and Historic Environment Scotland for the 2024 IUCN UK Peatland Programme conference in Aviemore. Inspired by peatland-themed questions from primary school children, participants explored Insh Marshes through sensory, movement-based, and reflective exercises, deepening their connection to the bog and its many values.
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A performance and floor-based installation comprising raw sheep wool and water, exploring human–peatland relationships through movement and material. Using donated wool tested in peatland restoration, the work reflects on ecological repair, material cycles, and the transformation of living matter over time.
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A guided site visit and peatland-themed workshop with Year 5 students from Wood Farm Primary School at Oxford’s Lye Valley Nature Reserve, developed with RE-PEAT and Earthwatch’s Naturehood. The session concluded with a letter exchange linking the class with students in Ireland, fostering cross-border connection through shared peatland experiences.
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A series of microscopic images created as part of the Speaking Sphagnum project, revealing the intricate cellular structure of Sphagnum moss. Captured under white, infrared, and ultraviolet light, the images highlight the species’ role in water retention and peatland formation, offering both scientific insight and a new visual perspective.
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A slow-motion moving image work observing the sustained effort to keep Sphagnum moss saturated and alive. Part of the Wet series, it reflects on the moss’s poikilohydric nature – its water content mirroring its environment – and its vital role as a keystone species in peat formation and peatland ecology.
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An online platform exploring ecological practices, theories, and pedagogies, connecting practitioners across disciplines and geographies. For her contribution, Caroline shares excerpts from a long-term letter exchange with co-curator Chiara Famengo, reflecting on memory, craft, and responsibility in creating and sustaining interspecies relationships. Part of the CODEY22 Residency Programme.
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An ongoing photographic series emerging from a study of bryology, Mossing documents mosses in their native habitats. The project reflects the attentive practice of searching for mosses in the field, revealing their ecological importance, intricate forms, and the miniature worlds they create within the landscapes they inhabit.
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A recorded conversation with Bruce Langridge, Head of Interpretation at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, reflecting on Caroline’s residency at the Garden. The discussion explores her study of Sphagnum moss in the herbarium and how it has shaped her artistic research. Part of the Garden’s Flowerpot Podcast series.
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A digital work combining film, thermography, and sound, created during a residency with Somerset Film. Developed during the flowering stage of fibre flax, it reflects on the plant’s ecological connections, insect decline, and the environmental impact of intensive fibre production, highlighting the fragility of interdependent natural systems.
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