Sijelo Collective - If Trees Could Talk Biennial

July 2026

New work from the Sijelo Collective - womxn* artists, creatives and activists dedicated to addressing the intertwined challenges of displacement, racial justice, and climate justice.

Find out more at the If Trees Could Talk Website

Still from film by Sovay Berriman, 2026

Second Hand

Auction House, March 2026

Shopping, 2026, reclaimed cloth, copper pipe and second hand jewellery. Sovay Berriman

Taking place across K9 Crusaders charity shop and Auction House’s gallery space in Redruth, Cornwall, throughout March 2026.

Also showing in Second Hand were Kath Buckler, Ben Davies, Naomi Frears, Leila Galloway, Georgia Gendall, Liam Jolly, Dean Knight, Patrick Lowry, Alice Mahoney, Jacqui Orly, Stuart Robinson, Melanie Stidolph, A Todd, and Andy Webster.

Flamm 2026

28th Feb - 1st March

As a previously commissioned Flamm artist I was very glad to be invited by Creative Kernow and Counterpoints Arts to participate in this year’s festival,

WRITING
I have written a piece for the Flamm online publication which will be available online later in March. The publication will also include texts from Joe Lyward, and Marie-Anne McQuay. You may read my text here, and I have recorded an audio version, which you may listen to here > The Thing About Making Rocks.

PODCAST
At Flamm I joined Marie-Anne McQuay - curator of Bedrock - Liverpool Biennial 2025, and Jelena Sofronijevic creator of Empire Lines Podcast, for a live recording of an Empire Lines episode, which is available where ever you listen to your podcasts. You can also listen HERE,

L-R: Jelena Sofronijevic, Marie-Anne McQuay, Sovay Berriman

FACILITATION
In the run-up to Flamm, I facilitated an exchange project between some of this year's commissioned artists & artists and creatives from the Counterpoints Arts Climate & Displacement group. In March the group comes together to share experiences of the exchange for a special episode of my Meskla Podcast, you can listen to the episode below.

The exchange project pairings are:

Katie Etheridge and Boseda Olawoye
Rachael Jones and Anca Dimofte
Alice Mahoney and Kaajal Modi

Transcript HERE

Catching Copper

National Trust, East Pool Mine,
9th August - 25th September 2025

Catching Copper was a multi-layered exhibition across all floors of Michell’s Engine House. It included video, sculpture, drawing and an audio-story that draw upon experience and memories of the local area, to consider loss, social change and the legacy of extraction industries.

Mayla, 2025, clip

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