Highlights

Fragile, 2025 by Kuch Bhogal

Memory is a delicate and tender thing. It resists our attempts to grasp it firmly.

When we are gone, who will be left to remember the richness of what we experienced? Does it matter that nothing really matters in the end - or is it that everything matters just as much as everything else?

de la boue et des racines, 2022 by n:u (melissandre varin)

live performance

10min

material: kidney beans, soil emergency blanket, tarpaulin, and M.I/L?K!

de la boue et des racines
is a mess/mass involving non-diegetic prayers/hopes/incantations in which less-than human beings, more than human, and human bodies are activators of portals. A critic and re-enactment of healing mechanisms that hid in embodied memories. Pulsing, grieving, tending to small gestures as wor(l)ding. investigating settler and racial capitalism, spiritual sovereignty, and commoning, de la boue et des racines is a collective offering, to be - together in the mud.

contribution:
sonic waves by refreshing&nice**
** refreshing&nice, (@)tending wave ceremonies, is the dirty child of Sym Stellium ( https://symstellium.hotglue.me/) and n:u. Offering urban rituals at the intersection of live
coding and performance arts.

performed at the REP Theatre Birmingham
Commissioned by MAIA and Julie’s Bicycle
ID: performance with soil emergency blanket, tarpaulin, and M.I/L?K! with audiences participation

In Praise Of Raw Data, 2024 - 2025 by Dr Melanie King

IN PRAISE OF RAW DATA

Multimedia Project
2024-2026
Exhibited at Salon Gallery Margate and Albion House, Ramsgate 2025.

Dr Melanie King, Dr Claudia Mignone and Julie Hill.

This project is a result of an ongoing collaboration between artist Dr Melanie King and Dr Claudia Mignone - an astronomer and science communicator at INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Rome.This exhibition highlights the beauty of raw data artefacts resulting from cosmic interactions with telescope sensors. These features include over-exposed cores of stars which resemble black holes and six pointed stars which are an artefact of James Webb Space Telescope mirrors. In this project, King and Mignone have considered the construction of astronomical images and raw data artefacts that are often removed from astronomical images for public outreach purposes. Dr Melanie King, Dr Claudia Mignone and Julie Hill are now working on a further edition of this project, during a residency at Passengers (2025) London and in a small publication due to be published in 2026.

Astronomical images are often highly mediated, for example - colours are added to represent chemicals present in a galaxy or nebula. In this project, King and Mignone have been speaking to Alyssa Pagan and Joseph Depasquale at NASA to learn more about their image editing processes. In addition to this, the pair spoke to Mark McCaughrean (Former Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration at the European Space Agency) about his work with astronomical imaging.

This project comprises several colour printing processes and sustainable printing techniques, which mimic digital astronomical post-processing techniques.

These processes include risograph prints, produced at Park Press Margate. In addition to this, King produced sustainable screen prints using oak gall inks and recycled papers made in collaboration with photographer Clare Hewitt, botanical ink maker Carolyn Morton and paper maker Danielle Phelps. In her Ramsgate studio, King has been working on duotone cyanotypes using botanical toners.
As King's work considers the intimate connection between the cosmos, ecology of earth and materiality; King was keen to use sustainable printing processes to limit the impact of her work on the environment.Mignone has experimented with digital astronomical imaging composites, in addition to multiple acetate images which are used to produce an installation in the gallery. The experimental printing processes and installations aim to draw attention to artefacts resulting from astronomical telescopes, in addition to the printing processes themselves.

This project comes out of Dr King’s practice-based PhD research "Ancient Light: Rematerialising The Astronomical Image”, which was completed at the Royal College of Art in June 2024. Dr Claudia Mignone has contributed to King’s doctoral research, and the duo have previously have worked together to produce artworks for the Waterman’s Art Centre and Central Saint Martins. This project is currently supported by Canterbury Christ Church University.
 

Flower Shop, 2023 - 2024 by Uzma sultan

Flower shop in Berlin, Kreuzberg.

100 x 100cm