Medicinal Field

The Phytology medicine garden has been sown with over thirty-two varieties of indigenous plants common to the streets of London and urban ecosystems across the country. Generally regarded as ‘weeds’, each plant has been selected for its historic and on-going use in phytotherapy and traditional medicine...  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...

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...

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...

Ministry of Stories

As artists in residence, Ministry of Stories developed a series of experimental creative writing workshops based on urban wildness...  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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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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Institute of Use

Institute of Use are exploring the history, soil, ecology, derelict materiality and value of the Phytology site...  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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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...

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...

Making GOOD

In 2017 we will launch GOOD, a toothpaste range developed from plants grown in the Phytology medicine garden.  MORE...

Campfire Club

In time-honoured fashion we will gather around roaring blazes enveloped in music and entertainment...  MORE...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bill Posters

The Phytology billboard host's an evolving and eclectic series of interventions throughout 2018...  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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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...

Talya Baldwin

British illustrator Talya Baldwin has been commissioned to produce an extensive collection of botanical illustrations for the Phytology project...  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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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...