'The Grand Scheme of Things’ is a body of work created from my motivation to respond to the climate emergency and spend more time in the natural landscape, reflecting on my own and our collective detachment from nature. The initial aim of this project was (and still partly is) to encourage people to spend more time with nature and to experience it more actively – look and listen more closely and find beauty in the everyday details of the landscape.  

From further research finding that about one third of England’s population do not have local access to nature, the project and the zine produced with it became a space to reflect on and challenge the intersectional inequalities of England’s access to nature and to recognise the essential value of everyone being able to spend more time with nature, for all our sakes. 

Exhibited with Scope Collective at The Stanley Arms, Preston, April 2022