Feral Practice
Often people set up a divide between human and nonhuman life, and between different categories of knowledge and understanding; Feral Practice works across these barriers. They bring the experimental energy of art to bear upon the care of diverse bodies and ecologies. Through long term actions in rural contexts, in dialogue with other species and in collaboration with experts and communities, they cultivate new stories and artworks from more than human perspectives.
Evolving specific methodologies in response to each diverse context and its participants, they often employ digital technologies that augment sensory access to other than human worlds in combination with sculpture, painting, participation or dialogue.
Feral Practice’s work is widely commissioned and exhibited by museums, festivals and galleries; academic, social and environmental organisations.
Current and recently:
Tenderbog with Laura Harrington (sculpture, audio-visual, painting) explores affective and structural parallels between peatland restoration and medicine and arises from our WaterLANDS artist residency 2023-6. Tonal 2024-5 (audio) investigates water issues in the UK through the lens of the River Tone in Somerset, funded by FCDI bursary. Rainforest Chorus, an audio-visual exploration of damage and repair of temperate rainforest fragments in southwest England, supported by Kone Foundation. Ask the Wild 2017-26 with Marcus Coates (events, audio) seeks fresh answers to human problems within the strategies of other species. Rock.Plant.Human. 2024 (sculptural sound installation, painting) explored hybrid, multispecies community for Wirksworth Festival. COMMUNE, a two-screen video installation a story between human and ants, developed as Wysing artist in residence 2023-4. Lead artist for the Residência Formigeiro (Residency of the Ants) 2023 at KinoBeat, Porto Alegre, Brazil (sponsored by British Council) and resulting in the exhibition CÖCÖCÖCÜ 2023 at CCMQ Porto Alegre. Stream of Consciousness 2022, a 360 video touring project about the River Darent in Kent and its diverse habitats. The Ant-ic Museum (2021-2) an exhibition guided by ants at Scarborough Museums and Art Galleries.
Our PhD research (2016-22) developed strategies to challenge anthropocentrism through feral participations in art with other species. Our chapter Ant-ic Actions, Formica’s Forms 2025 was published by Bloomsbury in Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images, ed. Silke Panse.
