Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

Arts

Ecstatic Rot: Communal (Low) Frequencies & The Listening Party

Artist Michelle Atherton (she/her) will be in residence during 2023, spending time researching our relationships with transience, decomposition and re-composition as more-than-human activities. She is interested in finding experimental ways...

'We Extend Ourselves Towards Each Other's Aliveness'

Sun 30 April 2023

Farzana Khan was artist in residence at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve during 2022, and part of, ‘We Speak In Tongues About The Thing(s) We Love’ programme curated by...

Of Lost & Found

This project is a collection of stuff found within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve site, East London, while Ellie Doney was artist in residence throughout 2017. Her interest in the...

EARTHSHAPES #1 REPLENISHING - MID-WINTER

Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for the first in a series of 8 art-practice-led gatherings following and drawing attention to seasonal rhythms, patterns of place and earth-centric chronology. ...

Eduardo Padilha

Eduardo Padilha is a visual artist who works with natural and man-made materials that he manipulates and captures their transformations into sculptures, printed works on paper or fabric and occasionally...

George Chakravarthi

George Chakravarthi has always been his own muse. In life, and professionally as an artist since the mid 1990s, Chakravarthi has been creating provocations around historical, contemporary and emerging notions...

Laughter & Nature Comedy Night

Join us for a night or stand-up comedy at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. 7pm - 10pm, 9th October Laughter & Nature Comedy Night is an experiMENTAL open mic comedy...

Leaf Hearing Blue, Moss Tickling a Soil by Becky Lyon

Join Becky Lyon + ELASTIC FICTION for three experimental workshops inviting you to re-sensitise, re-tune and imagine-with the ecology found within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. This forms part of...

Recipes for Resistance: Migration and un/belongin

Healing Justice Ldn have teamed up with Recipes for Resistance to offer three workshops exploring Memory, Grief, and Un/belonging in relationship to the politics of food and identity. The third...

PRIMORDIAL SKY

Primordial Sky is an experimental performance of music and movement taking place across the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve woodlands. A symbiosis of music/dance/sculpture will correspond with above-ground and soil ecologies...

Whittling Workshop pt.2

Learn basic wood whittling techniques to make yourself a spoon to take home and enjoy. You will learn a range of woodworking techniques using a bunch of tools such as...

F*Choir Singing Workshop

Meet F*Choir and explore their music and methods at an ‘Open Singing Session’ within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Led by Jenny Moore, we will explore breathing and sounding together...

Campfire Club - The Rheingans Sisters + Sarah Smout

The Nest Collective's 'Campfire Club' is returning to the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve this summer! 7pm - 10:30pm, 18th June 2021 The Rheingans Sisters Winners of the 2016 BBC Radio...

Living Monoliths & Seed Bomb Talk

Maria Roy Deulofeu & Sean Ross are two sustainable designers from the United Matters design collective currently working within the Nature Reserve. Over the past two months they have been...

Whittling Workshop

Learn basic wood whittling techniques to make useful things such as spatulas and spoons. We will learn different techniques for tools such axes, knives and hook knives. All equipment will...

F*Choir

F*Choir is in residence at the Bethnal Green Nature throughout 2021. F*Choir a London-based, all-genders choir led by performance artist and drummer Jenny Moore. Over the last 4 years it...

Daze Aghaji + Adelaide Bannerman Billboard pt.2

This billboard is the second of three hand-painted texts, part of a series of questions, observations and statements reflecting on this space, the environment and representation. ‘wecomewithourquestions’ is part of...

The Squirrel’s Heartbeat by Fiona Banner

The Squirrel’s Heartbeat ‘The Squirrel’s Heartbeat’ is a series of conversations ruminating on the environment, art and activism, part of Fiona Banners' (aka The Vanity Press) 2020/21 research residency at...

Daze Aghaji + Adelaide Bannerman Billboard pt.1

This billboard is the first of three hand-painted texts, part of a series of questions, observations and statements reflecting on this space, the environment and representation. ‘wecomewithourquestions’ was first initiated...

Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press - Billboard

Fiona Banner has hand painted the Phytology billboard in stages over the summer, week by week adding in new letters and words to form the phrase ‘The Retrospective Has Been...

'Of Lost & Found' by Ellie Doney

We are pleased to announce the launch of the 'Of Lost & Found’, an online archive exploring the material history of the Phytology site by Ellie Doney. Ellies work explores...

Adelaide Bannerman

Adelaide Bannerman is a curator based in London who lives close to the Phytology site in Bethnal Green. Currently in residence, she is planning a site-specific residency and public programme...

Fiona Banner

Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press is artist in residence throughout 2020/21. Banner often works under the moniker of The Vanity Press, the imprint she established in 1997 with her...

Queer Ecologies: Microbe Disco

As part of Electric Dreams Online, The Queer Ecologies collective invites you to join us for a multi-species, multi-generational and intersectional virtual disco! Come meet your companion species, move with...

Gail Burton

Gail Burton is our resident artist throughout 2019. Her research investigates the intelligence of gesture, exploring the overlap between place, choreography and the written word. Manoeuvring between the trees, plants...

Sarah Westcott

Sarah Westcott was artist in residence throughout 2016/17. Westcott produced an extensive body of work throughout her residency, inspired by the natural world and the places where human and non-human...

David Nash

David Nash was artist in residence in 2016/17. Nash is from County Cork, Ireland, but currently lives and works in London. His writing has been featured in various magazines, anthologies...

Lu Williams

Artists and activist, Lu Williams, has been commissioned to produce a billboard and street poster campaign in the summer of 2018. A version of her ‘Teenage Girls Are Our Future’...

Lucy Cash

Lucy Cash is a writer and artist with a background in performance and choreography. She has written for radio and sound installations, performance and film. Cash was resident artist across...

Alternative School of Economics

The Alternative School of Economics is a collaboration between artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck. It is both an artwork and a way of working; it links artist practice with...

DJ Simpson

DJ Simpson is a contemporary artist who was inspired by the non-human architecture found across the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, such as nests, hives and dreys. Across the Summer &...

Ellie Doney

Of Lost & Found This project is a collection of stuff found within the Phytology site, while Ellie Doney was artist in residence throughout 2017. Her interest in the project...

Kathrin Böhm

As artist in residence Kathrin Böhm has generated an extensive body of research exploring how the Phytology site can be best accessed as a cultural hub for ongoing, meaningful participation...

Social Broadcasts - Resonance FM

Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts) Resonance FM - Phytology Hour Radio documentary, 60 min As a sound artist, radio producer and community facilitator, Lucia Scazzocchio has been researching and broadcasting hyper-local...

Sam Wallman

So Below is a graphic essay by cartoonist and journalist Sam Wallman. Exploring the idea of land ownership, Wallman melds the political with the poetic, connecting both historical and contemporary...

Lucy McLauchlan

Installation and street artist Lucy McLauchlan has created Places to Dwell that May Never Have Been Seen, a sequence of fluid, playful location-responsive installations situated throughout the Bethnal Green Nature...

Voiced

In the summer of 2015, artists Duncan Robertson and Lucía Montero commissioned six writers to develop original text inspired by a wild piece of land in East London - the...

Tal Brosh

Tal Brosh is a London based illustrator and M.A graduate from the London College of Communication. Brosh has produced an illustrated history of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve in four...

Talya Baldwin

Talya Baldwin is a British illustrator based in West Yorkshire. Much of her work focuses on the unseen or disregarded, aiming to promote public engagement with contemporary ecological issues. Her...

'Human Nature'<br>Talks & Discussions - Part 1

The Human-Nature talks programme explored the generative and often overlooked potential of un-purposed growth within and across London. Over the course of the programme our speakers discussed the perception gap...

Bill Posters

A large billboard hoarding has been installed within the South-West corner of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, hosting an evolving and eclectic series of interventions by contemporary artists. The billboard...

Vhils

An avid experimentalist, Vhils has been developing his notion of the aesthetics of vandalism in the form of stencil painting, wall carving and pyrotechnic explosion-drawings since 2001. His work often...

Ministry of Stories

The Ministry of Stories provides a free and encouraging space for young people to explore and experiment with creative writing in all its forms. Their program is supported by an...

Institute of Use

Institute of Use’s (IOU) response to the Phytology project focuses on the history of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Throughout their 2014 residency IOU explored the site’s ecology, and the...

Campfire Club

The Nest Collective's 'Campfire Club' is returning to the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve this summer! 7pm - 11pm, 18th June 2021 The Rheingans Sisters Winners of the 2016 BBC Radio...

‘Human Nature’ Talks & Discussions – Part 2

The Human-Nature talks programme explored the generative and often overlooked potential of un-purposed growth within and across London. Over the course of the programme our speakers discussed the perception gap...

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