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...
Topophilia
Climate expert, Nick Bridge, is in residence throughout 2019/20. Over the course of the residency Nick will host a series of personal, one-to-one conversations exploring climate change, environmental and social justice... 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...
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 2020... 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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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...
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...
Gardeners Report 2020
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...
Campfire Club
In time-honoured fashion we will gather around roaring blazes enveloped in music and entertainment... MORE...
Talya Baldwin
British illustrator Talya Baldwin has been commissioned to produce an extensive collection of botanical illustrations for the Phytology project... 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...
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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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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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...
Fiona Banner
Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press is artist in residence throughout 2020. To kick-off her site research, Banner hand painted the Phytology billboard hoarding nestled within the woodland.... MORE...
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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Geographer In Residence
Matthew Beach was Geographer-In-Residence throughout 2018. His research focused on the caring geographies rooted within its participatory art projects. Specifically, the medicinal garden and bat habitat project as embodied case studies of the growing interdisciplinary discourse around caring in a more-than-human world. 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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Ministry of Stories
As artists in residence, Ministry of Stories developed a series of experimental creative writing workshops based on urban wildness... 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...
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...
Mobile Apothecary
The Mobile Apothecary supports underserved communities in the locality with good-quality, homegrown and communally-made herbal remedies.
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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...
Adelaide Bannerman
Adelaide Bannerman is in residence throughout 2020, researching and developing our public programme for 2021... MORE...
Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust
Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust (BGNR Trust) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation established in April, 2016. 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...
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...
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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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...