Lagg

Artist-in-residence with Natural England‘s Geodiversity team in 2024–25.

Collaborations with Dr Jonathan Larwood and Dr Barbara Silva in creating installations exploring the natural and cultural histories of two sites: Roudsea Wood and Gait Barrows on Morecambe Bay.

Creation of an experimental radio play sound installation ‘voiced’ by more-than-human elements of the landscape. The work – based on sound recordings made in different rocks, earth, water and moss using geophones and hydrophones across the sites – are narrated through a series of non-human landscape ‘characters’.

These multispecies stories – representing slate, limestone, water, moss, pollen, ostracods, and gunpowder – are read by people local to the sites. These voices link slow geological shifts, ecological processes and wider geographical networks of trade and slavery in defining the ongoing nature of these places and their geological foundations.

The project title – Lagg – refers to the areas at the edges of wetlands, like those at Roudsea Wood defined by underlying geology, where processes of diversity and change are highest.

Initial presentations of the work at the Royal Geographical Society and National Gallery, London in 2025. Final work due to be presented in 2026–27.