Hannah Fletcher works with cameraless photographic processes, founder of The Sustainable Darkroom, Co-director of London Alternative Photography Collective and a facilitator of sustainability within the arts. Hannah Fletcher works with & researches the many intricate relationships between photographic & not-so photographic materials. Intertwining organic matter such as soils, algae, mushrooms & roots into photographic mediums & surfaces. Working in an investigative, ritualistic & environmentally conscious manner, she combines scientific techniques with photographic processes.

Elin is a freelance illustrator from Wales who’s now based in Cornwall, with a BA Hons Degree in Illustration from Falmouth University. Her work is inspired by the natural world, folklore and folk traditions, particularly those Welsh and Cornish. A passion for storytelling and the celebration and protection of our natural world has been a constant drive within her work. Through the power of imagination and imagery, she aims to deepen our connection to the natural environment, reflecting stories of the landscape, in a world that is often focused on the modern and material.

Mandy Willliams works with photography, video and sound to expand and disrupt representations of landscape. Her recent works focus on places with an underlying narrative about human interaction and presence. While some projects reference personal history, memory and the passage of time, others reflect on contemporary socio-political concerns. The beauty of a landscape isn’t that important to me. Most of the time my photographs show a location that has been compromised – either by environmental factors or by a connection to a particular narrative.

Melanie King is a working class artist and curator, originally from Manchester, UK. Melanie is now based in Kent, UK. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios and founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective.

Interested in the relationship between the environment, photography and materiality. Melanie intends to highlight the intimate connection between celestial objects (sun, moon, stars), photographic material and the natural world. Melanie is currently researching a number of sustainable photographic processes, to minimise the environmental impact of her artistic practice.

Louis Quail is a documentary photographer exploring societal issues. He increasingly devotes his time to personal, long-term projects. These critically acclaimed project range form mental health to environmental air pollution. He lectures, exhibits internationally & makes short films.

He has worked extensively for some of the UK’s best known magazines and has been published internationally over many years. He has twice been a finalist at the National Portrait Gallery portraiture award and is held in their permanent collection.

Rosanna has worked in the realm of print for over 10 years.Rosanna has also long been interested in sustainability, food sovereignty and growing food. Many of her prints explore themes of agriculture, horticulture and the natural world. She believes in the use of print as a medium of communication and the exploration of ideas and is always seeking to inspire with her work. Rosanna also teaches printmaking and drawing at various art schools including the Bristol Drawing school at the Royal West of England academy and the Spike Print studio.

Sasha Duerr is an artist, designer and educator who works with plant-based color and natural palettes. Sasha centers her practice and research on the collaborative color potential of weeds, food and floral waste, and local and seasonal ingredients. Sasha lectures, consults and widely designs curriculum and courses in the intersection of natural color, slow food, slow fashion and social practice. In 2007, Sasha founded Permacouture Institute to encourage the exploration of regenerative design practices for fashion and textiles.

Sustainability is at the heart of Alice’s practice. The desire to take an ethical approach has driven a shift from using conventional art and textile materials into exploring found objects, gathered materials and natural processes. The work that Alice makes is process led. She gathers the materials that are available to her, testing, sampling and exploring them to find possibilities using her textiles-based skill set and techniques borrowed from soft basketry. Alice makes sculptural works, bringing different materials together to form tactile surfaces and structures.

Lynda Laird is a photographic artist based in St Leonards on Sea. Her research-based practice merges archive, photography, video and sound. Employing techniques, methods and materials that are sympathetic and relevant to the subject. She focuses on long-term bodies of work: primarily looking at landscape and the traces of memory in these spaces. She is interested in exploring ways of showing what is invisible to the naked eye, often employing camera less techniques and working with the materiality of specific landscapes in an attempt to bring an element or trace of its history in to the work.

Danielle Petti is a Canadian artist who forages for rocks, soils, and clays, grinds them down into a pigment, and uses naturally sourced substrates to make paintings inspired by motherhood, human origins, the human condition, and sustainability. Using exclusively handmade earth pigments, she draws attention to the materiality of the paint and to how the pieces of earth are interconnected to all bodies. She is also a mother of two, a photographer, and holds a BFA and is a current MFA Candidate at UWO in London, Ontario. She is motivated by environmental and feminist issues in our world - but often offering an optimism, evoking a sense of wonder of the natural colours of our planet.

Marta's work is rooted in themes from nature. It provides a filter through which to see the world by finding the immense within the minuscule, that which connects microcosm and macrocosm, and the invisible paths that lead between earth and sky. Marta works predominantly with naturally occurring pigments & inks she makes herself using various organic materials, creating a unique and ever-shifting palette that reflects the inherent characteristics of the natural world itself, and which recount the human experience of light, time, color and spirit .

Holly Wilmeth creates images that embody elements of nature, mysticism, and spirituality. Drawing inspiration from ancient mythologies, symbolism, diverse cultures and her spiritual practice, Holly’s images are a personal interpretation of her life’s sacred dance. Both wisdom and wonder speak through her images, as they reveal a simple visual journey of the wonders of being human and being part of this earth. She is warm and playful, vulnerable and honest, and her images present a simple rawness of human interconnectedness.

Annie Hogg is a visual artist based in Tipperary, Ireland. She works with pigments foraged from all elements of the landscape, often charring found objects from the natural world as a votive action to create paint, ink and sculptures. Throughout her practice she utilises plants, soils and stones, shells and found bones. The materiality of these pigment sources is of great importance within the subsequent work.

After graduating in 2002 with a BA in sculpture form Aki College of Art in The Netherlands, she worked and lived on environmental protest camps and learned organic horticulture. Returning to a creative practice in recent yeras has allowed for these experiences to be woven into the practice, where themes such as solastalgia, ecopsychology, folklore and acts of transformation are explored.

Morgan Kulas is a dancer-philosopher and teacher-practitioner whose work explores the poetry, potential, and phenomena of the psychosomatic. Her creative and community led research contributes to the web of inquiry taking place at the intersection of decoloniality, ecology, and performance studies. Ensuing in contemplative artworks that perform the body as a part of nature.

In her artwork, Morgan de-constructs and re-constructs from visible and invisible detritus. The intangible, impermanent, and transparent are themes. Revealing an ongoing investigation of the body as a landscape through which the beauty and trauma of the Anthropocene is being mirrored. Her work aims to provoke a sense of metaphysical inquiry in the viewer-participant, taking shape through the mediums of choreography, performance, sound, writings, collage, installation, and social practice.

Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator focused on the material history of color and sustainable studio practice. She captures material and elemental interactions in her collaborative, experimental printmaking. Her work incorporates natural pigments and botanical dyes which are ethically foraged or cultivated in her studio garden. These plants provide her with a seasonally evolving vocabulary of texture and color generated from the soil underfoot and the water moving through it, rooting each artwork to place. Natalie’s studio and garden are located in Yonkers, New York. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

From the teachings of my Grandfather, I came to know the gifts of nature; its lessons, its care, and its warmth to heal. Watching him at a knee-height age in his worn Dickies safety shoes tending and nurturing the tomatoes, runner beans, and peppers in his greenhouse and running down the garden path with them fresh in a brown paper bag to gift to Nanny for her casserole, I experienced the gift of reciprocity; that we can heal and nurture nature, as much as it heals and nurtures us.

It is this intertwining of science, spirit and story that is present throughout my creativity. Through still and moving image, sound, and installation, I explore how being in nature in the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer 'can be a medicine for our broken relationship with the Earth, a pharmacopeia of healing stories that allows us to imagine a relationship in which people and land are good medicine for each other'.

Emily is an Ivor Novello Composer’s Award winning composer, sound artist and visual artist. She creates research-led and site specific interactive artworks for galleries and outdoor public spaces, ranging from large-scale community events to intimate sound installations. Her work aims to transform how we perceive our environment by creating invitations to connect with people and places that are forgotten, overlooked, or surrounded by histories that can be remembered and celebrated through sound and music. Peasgood is best known for her work in outdoor public locations with specific communities of people, often utilising innovative technology and design to serve her concept and enhance visitor interaction. Her work has been described as magical (The Times), evocative (The Telegraph), and memorable (A-N).

Jill Mueller explores what it is to be human — the stories that connect us to each other and the worlds within and around us. Through visual art and creative writing, she weaves together documentary and imaginary worlds to explore issues related to the body, our connection to nature, and how we make meaning of our experiences. Her approach and choice of materials respond to each project. She is currently hand-building a hempcrete studio in her garden in London, learning new skills as she creates a space for creativity to thrive in harmony with the land. Jill also gives talks and conducts workshops focused on creativity and health. She holds a Master’s in Art and Science and is an Honorary Lecturer at University College London’s Institute for Women’s Health.

US-born, UK-based artist Jana Nicole is renowned for her exuberant mixed-media collages that fuse traditions of Ikebana, paper cutting and relief sculpture with the raucous energy of pop art. These explosive bouquets are at once eye-grabbing and exquisitely detailed; it takes her many hours of painstaking work to compose the myriad of elements that make up a single piece.

Current works – her Botanical Troupe series – mix photographic and hand-drawn imagery with organic materials to explore the hidden worlds beneath our feet: mosses, mushrooms, fungi and the extraordinary mycelial networks that connect the natural world. As a site~specific response to the Sussex location.

Greta Desirèe Facchinato (IT/LU) is a multidisciplinary artist known for integrating craftsmanship, ecology, and technology. In 2018, she earned the Master Artistic Research Award from KABK Den Haag. Since then, she runs a studio focused on self-initiated projects, commissions, and workshops. Deeply committed to fostering regenerative processes, ecological thinking, and collaboration, Greta infuses her work with symbolism and care. Inspired by the reciprocal relationships between human and more-than-human life, she currently works with sustainable ink-making and printing techniques engaging plants, organisms, and recycled materials as living entities. Operating with awareness and intuition, she blends traditional techniques with innovation to create works reflecting on the topic of interconnectedness.

Bethan Bray is a hide tanner and artist, working intimately with materials gathered from the wild landscape surrounding where she lives in the Highlands of Scotland. She paints on wild surfaces using earthen pigments, each brushstroke infused with the living embodiment of place. Her work also explores the use of animal hide as canvas, an echo of our ancestral ways of creating and existing within the tapestry of the Living World. Each painting is a living alchemy of herbal infusions, plant dyes, tree barks, wild pigments and crushed minerals - A delicate merging of mineral, flora and fauna, an embodied conversation with living materials filled with animistic materiality. She works closely with themes of death/rebirth, reverence and reciprocity to create work that is rooted in the cyclical nature of our existence here on Earth

Originally from the Suffolk countryside, Georgie now works from her studio on a City Farm in London. Various creative pursuits have led her through a degree in English Literature, a Fine Art MA from City & Guilds and a decade as an internationally exhibiting artist. She also runs workshops for individuals, communities and companies, helping people reconnect to their creativity.

Gathering objects that are usually considered 'waste’, such as discarded oyster shells, ram’s wool and rusted gas canisters, her focus is on the inherent abundance around us. By working with materials that reflect our relationship with the natural world, Georgie hopes her work creates a safe context to feel discomfort, catalysing inner for outer change.

Sophie Ferrier has a multi-media, interdisciplinary ecological crafts practice based between England & Wales. Sophie’s practice is land-based, ecologically restorative & relays narrative which is rooted in artistic research, materiality, and local environments. Building on from a foundation of ceramic practice, Sophie utilises contemporary practice to reshape relationships with ‘waste’ material. From food waste to non-native invasive plant species, Sophie’s aim is to restore local environments through the storytelling of restorative materiality; re-building a kinship to the natural world through objects of enchantment; highlighting the importance of circularity, and closing the communication gap between ecological research and audiences

Louise Frances Smith lives and works in Ramsgate, Kent (UK). She graduated from CityLit with a Ceramics Diploma in 2019 and from Kingston University with a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree in 2009.

Louise’s practice spans sculpture, installation and works on paper. Working with an array of materials including clay, seaweed and bioplastic, Louise creates highly textured surfaces to bring attention to the patterns and textures created by nature, magnifying micro details alongside man-made interventions.

By collecting materials from her local coastline to use as materials in her work, Louise’s works are conceptually and physically linked to her local landscape where she takes her inspiration.

Bodhi Shola is an artist using a feminine perspective to address sustainable evolution. Consideration is placed on the interconnection between intimacy, sacredness and nature, addressing acceptance and compassion in contemporary social culture.

Her practice is informed by her experiences in contact with eastern philosophies, herbalism and meditation and builds awareness towards a balanced and transversal development of society. It is through the symbolical and dream infused language of the creative medium that Bodhi Shola approaches the themes of the collective, supporting equality, biodiversity and a vision of animistic consciousness. The oneiric layer is transported into the factual by the means of photographic imagery that documents landscapes for preservation and hints into ceremonial practices that address social issues through the lens of kindness.

The artworks are created using products sourced from local and fair-trade artisanal businesses, supporting women employment and the adoption of organic, recyclable and/or compostable materials within the oeuvre itself.

Lisa Holmes has been a photographer for over 20 years and a lecturer in photography for 10 years.

Alongside her teaching and commercial work, Lisa is also the Founder and Director of Photo Hub North CIC, a not-for-profit social enterprise driven by a belief that everyone should have access to photography, the arts and culture. Photo Hub North specialises in teaching sustainable photography techniques through workshops and public projects. They also run an Eco Darkroom, a community photo garden and provide digital facilities.

The launch of Creative Earth: Eco-Fest, in 2024, will focus on showcasing all the Photo Hub’s learning to date and teach environmentally friendly photography and art techniques while enjoying music and plant-based foods.