Herbaria Series

A series of oil paintings on wood panels, based on historic herbaria (flattened plant specimens), including ones from the first known herbaria from Italy called the EN TIBI Herbarium, as well as some found and named after the British colonial botanist Joseph Banks. Herbaria are still seen as important documents for understanding changes in biodiversity today, but they are also remnants of a very colonial, masculine and scientific approach to nature - plants are taken, flattened, strapped down and labelled for science. Exhibited at 195 Mare Street, an historic house and art space in Hackney, in 2023.