The Squirrel’s Heartbeat
‘The Squirrel’s Heartbeat’ is a series of conversations ruminating on the environment, art and activism... MORE...
David Nash
David Nash was poet in residence throughout 2016/17. MORE...
Mobile Apothecary
The Mobile Apothecary supports underserved communities in the locality with good-quality, homegrown and communally-made herbal remedies.
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Gardeners Report 2020
Phytology’s Gardener’s Report, written by horticulturist Shumaisa Khan & Gabby Boraston, offer a behind the scenes look at the Phytology site. Each report captures interaction with the space, but also provides an invaluable record of the site’s diverse plant and wildlife. 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...
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...
Adelaide Bannerman – We speak in tongues about the thing(s) we love
Adelaide Bannerman is in residence throughout 2020, researching and developing our public programme for 2021... MORE...
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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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...
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...
Forest Friday’s
Forest Friday’s is a free weekly project for local children + families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep...
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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...
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...
Wetland
The wetland enhancement project aims to support the newt and toad population already existing on site... MORE...
Sarah Westcott
Sarah Westcott was artist in residence throughout 2016/17. Westcott produced an extensive body of work throughout her residency, inspired by the natural world and the places where human and non-human intersect... 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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Farzana Khan
We are honoured to announce Farzana Khan will be Artist in residence throughout 2022, part of the ‘We Speak In Tongues About The Thing(s) We Love’ curated by Adelaide Bannerman. Farzana (she/her) is an Artist/Writer and the Executive Director, co-founder of Healing Justice London.... MORE...
Compost Mentis
Throughout 2018/19 we co-created 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...
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...
Ministry of Stories
As artists in residence, Ministry of Stories developed a series of experimental creative writing workshops based on urban wildness... MORE...
Social Broadcasts – Resonance FM
As a sound artist, radio producer and community facilitator, Lucia Scazzocchio has been researching and broadcasting hyper-local stories celebrating people, place and the times we live... MORE...
Talya Baldwin
British illustrator Talya Baldwin has been commissioned to produce an extensive collection of botanical illustrations for the Phytology project... MORE...
GOOD
GOOD make environmentally and socially conscious products to nourish the body. We grow our medicinal herbs in the Phytology medicine garden (Bethnal Green) and work closely with a network of small scale ethical farmers for all additional ingredients. MORE...
Institute of Use
Institute of Use are exploring the history, soil, ecology, derelict materiality and value of the Phytology site... MORE...
F*Choir
F*Choir is in residence at the Bethnal Green Nature throughout 2021. Over the last 4 years it has grown as a place to gather in body and in voice, to vibrate and move and learn together. MORE...
Eduardo Padilha
Eduardo Padilha is a visual artist who works with natural and man-made materials that he manipulates and captures their transformations into sculptures, printed works on paper or fabric and occasionally moving-image. Padilha will be artist in residence throughout 2022. MORE...
Bat Sanctuary
In 2017/18 the Phytology team are launched a series of bat sanctuary projects across the East London - extending the natural resources of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve to accommodate an urban bat population...
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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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Lucy Cash
Lucy Cash is a writer and visual artist with a background in performance and choreography. She has written for radio and sound installations, performance and film.
Cash was our artist in residence throughout 2015...
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‘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...
Campfire Club
In time-honoured fashion we will gather around roaring blazes enveloped in music and entertainment... MORE...
Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust
Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust (BGNR Trust) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation established in April, 2016. MORE...
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...
George Chakravarthi
George Chakravarthi is a multidisciplinary artist who works with visual and live art using his body and image to explore the politics of identity. He also employs religious and spiritual iconography referencing his multi-faith upbringing, predominantly Hinduism and Catholicism. Chakravarthi will be artist in residence throughout 2022. 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...
Bill Posters
The Phytology billboard host's an evolving and eclectic series of interventions throughout 2020... MORE...