Talya Baldwin
British illustrator Talya Baldwin has been commissioned to produce an extensive collection of botanical illustrations for the Phytology project... MORE...
Campfire Club
In time-honoured fashion we will gather around roaring blazes enveloped in music and entertainment... MORE...
Compost Mentis
During the summer, we will be co-creating a range of new composting systems at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, including a wormery, thermal compost pile and a much needed accessible compost toilet... MORE...
DJ Simpson
DJ Simpson is a painter and sculptor whose practice explores the connection between geometric built environment and organic layering of patterns and shapes...
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Making GOOD
In 2017 we will launch GOOD, a toothpaste range developed from plants grown in the Phytology medicine garden. MORE...
Gail Burton
Gail Burton is our resident artist throughout 2019. Her research investigates the intelligence of gesture, exploring the overlap between place, choreography and the written word. MORE...
Alternative School of Economics
The Alternative School of Economics is a collaboration between artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck. It is both an artwork and a way of working; it links artist practice with self-education as a way to study economics, creating a framework for investigating political, social and cultural issues. MORE...
David Nash
David Nash was poet in residence throughout 2016/17. MORE...
Lu Williams
Artists and activist, Lu Williams, has been commissioned to produce a billboard and street poster campaign titled 'Teenage Girls Are Our Future'. MORE...
Lucy Cash
Lucy Cash is a writer and artist with a background in performance and choreography. She has written for radio and sound installations, performance and film.
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Social Broadcasts – Resonance FM
As a sound artist, radio producer, community facilitator and educator, Lucia Scazzocchio has been researching and broadcasting hyper-local social contexts, placing individual stories into wider social contexts... MORE...
Tree School
The Phytology hosts a week-long summer school for local children and young people in Bethnal Green.
The course explores the historic and contemporary relationship between humans and trees - including food, shelter, habitat and oxygen production.
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Shared Lunch
Across the summer months a host of local residents will cook-up a variety of shared meals using fresh ingredients from the Phytology medicine garden. Each shared lunch features a talk by a resident researcher or guest speaker. MORE...
Sarah Westcott
Resident artist Sarah Westcott produced a body of work inspired by the natural world and the places where human and non-human intersect. MORE...
Sam Wallman
Sam Wallman's graphic essay and billboard works explore the roots and contemporary manifestations of private property and territorialism, the concept of non-spaces, and everyday resistances to these ideas... MORE...
Lucy McLauchlan
Lucy McLauchlan's large-scale monochromatic paintings are at home within galleries and museums just as they are covering multi-story building across Europe, gigantic billboards in China, huts of The Gambia, Italian water towers, Norwegian lighthouses, car parks of Detroit, to the depths of abandoned subway tunnels in New York... MORE...
Letters from the Shed by Nick Bridge
The Writer in Residence makes weekly visits to Phytology. He reflects on the meaning and value of the site, and the larger discussions of environmental justice. MORE...
Voiced
The Voiced project takes the form of a traditional artist residency, providing a space for writers to explores the cultural heritage of East London through song and spoken text.
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Ellie Doney
Ellie Doney is an artist whose practice investigates and interprets the cultural status and value of found materials...
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‘Human Nature’
Talks & Discussions – Part 1
The Human-Nature talks program explores the generative and often overlooked potential of un-manicured growth within and across London... MORE...
Bill Posters
The Phytology billboard host's an evolving and eclectic series of interventions throughout 2018... MORE...
Tal Brosh
Tal Brosh has produced an illustrated history of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve in four incarnations: a medieval market garden, Victorian church, WW2 bomb site and an apothecary garden... MORE...
Institute of Use
Institute of Use are exploring the history, soil, ecology, derelict materiality and value of the Phytology site... MORE...
Urban Mind
Help us understand how city living is affecting mental wellbeing. By collecting real-time data about the characteristics of your urban environment and your state of mind, we will be able to understand how different aspects of the urban environment affect mental wellbeing. MORE...
Phytology Balms
Phytology skin balms are made using high-grade almond oil (EU) infused with a variety of English medicinal herbs, including Chamomile, Ribwort Plantain, Yarrow, and Marshmallow. MORE...
Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust
Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust (BGNR Trust) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation established in April, 2016. MORE...
Ministry of Stories
As artists in residence, Ministry of Stories developed a series of experimental creative writing workshops based on urban wildness... MORE...
Gardeners Report
Phytology’s Gardener’s Report, written by horticulturist Gabby Boraston, offers a behind the scenes look at the Phytology site. Each report captures Gabby’s personal interaction with the space, but also provides an invaluable record of the site’s diverse plant and wildlife. MORE...
Vhils
An avid experimentalist, Vhils has been developing his notion of the aesthetics of vandalism in the form of stencil painting, wall carving and pyrotechnic explosion-drawings since 2001... MORE...
Mobile Apothecary
In 2019 Phytology will collaborate with Herbalists Without Borders & St Margarets House to deliver the Mobile Apothecary.
This project supports the health and wellbeing of people for whom other forms of healthcare is less accessible, particularly rough sleepers.
Kathrin Böhm
Artist, Kathrin Böhm, has generate a new body of research exploring how the Phytology site can be best accessed as a cultural hub...
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Wetland
The wetland enhancement project aims to support the newt and toad population already existing on site... MORE...
‘Human Nature’ Talks & Discussions – Part 2
The Human-Nature talks programme explores the generative and often overlooked potential of un-purposed growth within and across London. MORE...
Geographer In Residence
Matthew Beach is Geographer-In-Residence throughout the summer of 2018. He is researching the historical, material, and caring geographies rooted within its participatory art projects. Specifically, the medicinal garden and bat houses projects — as embodied case studies of the growing interdisciplinary discourse around caring in a more-than-human world. MORE...
Bat Sanctuary
In 2017/18 the Phytology team are launching a series of new bat sanctuary projects across the East End - extending the natural resources of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve to accommodate an urban bat population...
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