acts of gathering 

public sharing event by Hannah Taylor

During her residency at La Escocesa as part of the MATCH project, artist Hannah Taylor has been exploring the roles of plants and people in practices of gathering, repair, and resilience within environments shaped by waste, pollution, and climate change. Her research weaves together phytoremediating plants, contaminated urban soils, informal networks of metal collectors, and the knowledge of growers and community gardens across the Barcelona region.

Working with discarded materials, spontaneous vegetation, and metals accumulated both above and below ground, this open studio presents an evolving body of research through soil chromatography, naturally dyed textiles, metal oxide inks, aluminium casting, and welded sculpture.

Throughout the evening, Hannah's studio will remain open as a space for experimentation, conversation, and collective exchange. Visitors are invited to engage with handmade botanical inks and metal oxides, witnessing the material interactions between plants, metals, and the environments they inhabit.

There will be a selection of foraged cordials and light snacks to share. 
 

bio

Hannah Rebekah Taylor (1993) is a grower, dyer and artist. She was born in the UK and spent her childhood growing up in South Africa and later rural England. She studied Anthropology at Sussex University. She has lived and worked in Paris, London, and Marseille where she now resides in the Belle de Mai neighbourhood. Her work draws from her cross cultural upbringing and her Anthropology studies, exploring story telling and human connection to land, environment and found materials, specifically in the context of the climate crisis. Hannah works predominantly with reclaimed and foraged materials, natural dyes and pigments. She has previously collaborated with ‘The School of Mutants’ collective. Her work has been shown in London, Kaunas, Ljubljana and Marseille.

Activity carried out within the framework of the MATCH (Mediterranean as the Climate Hotspot) residencies.

MATCH is a project co-funded by the European Union, in the framework of Creative Europe programme. It connects five cultural organizations based in the Mediterranean: Mapa das Ideas (PT), D6:EU (CY), La Friche la Belle de Mai (FR), BJCEM (BE), and the National Technical University of Athens (GR), each working with a local arts and community garden partners.

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