Part of the series curated by Claire Ratinon and Sam Ayre, Sui Searle, founder of Decolonise the Garden and Dr Ros Gray, Programme Leader MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths College will be exploring ideas around decolonising the garden, the central role that plants played in the and how imperialism shaped the British garden.

Sui is a gardener, writer and printmaker. She has worked in botanic, public, private and community gardens. She is the founder of Decolonise the Garden which focuses on bringing a decolonial lens and anti-racism perspective to horticulture. Sui is also the editor of the inspiring online gardening newsletter, Radicle - make sure hit the subscribe button!  

Dr Ros Gray is the program leader of the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a writer, researcher and educator who specializes in art, ecology, and planetarity, with particular focus on artistic responses to climate crisis and ecological emergency that involve cultivation and rewilding through anti-racist, anti-colonial, indigenous, feminist and queer approaches to multispecies sites, histories and materials. Her research has investigated militant filmmaking, particularly in relation to liberation struggles and revolutionary movements in Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso.

Explore Sui’s work and Dr Ros Gray this way!

This event will feature BSL interpretation throughout.