Plants & Protests

This workshop will provide you with skills in horticulture. You will learn how to grown micro-greens for year round salads, grow veg and flowers from seed and learn skills in propagating plants – exploring different methods for an endless supply of free plants. You will also learn the secret to successful composting.

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Marjolaine Ryley is  multi-disciplinary  artist working with photography, text, objects, plants and Eco printing.

She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and her works is held in the collections of the V&A and Serralves Museums. She has had her work published in books and Magazines including ‘Growing up in the New Age’ Daylight 2013 and ‘Alternative Worlds: Blue Sky thinking Since 1900’, ‘Portfolio’ and ‘Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture’. Exhibitions include ‘This is What I See’ at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Sunderland 2020 and ‘A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose’, 2022 at Hestercombe Gallery and Gardens, Somerset.

She is a Part time Lecturer in Photography at the University of Sunderland and She is Currently a PhD researcher in Fine Art at Newcastle University funded through Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership. Her PhD ‘Time, Image, Archive: visualising Gardening communities through auto-ethnographic photographic practice’ explores the relationship between women, gardens and the horti-counterculture.

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