Abstract

Marjolaine Ryley’s practice explores the materiality of photography through experimentation with plants and sustainable practices, to raise awareness about the current extinction risk to plants and the beneficial effects of gardening for humans and the environment. Working with photography, writing and plants and using auto-ethnography, post-humanism and critical plant studies, Ryley’s engagement with the garden interweaves creative writing, sustainable photography, plant-made imagery and collaborative workshops to instigate dialogues around human-plant relations and our place in a more-than-human world. At Hestercombe she will install A Tendril of Creeper, a new body of work combining photographs of and made with plants, wall and text-based work and her own botanical collections.