Katie Bliss

What if our world was centred around other-than-human wisdoms?

‘Multispecies Being (Cosmovision)’ imagines a timeless watery land, where the expansive wetland of The Wash is revered as a living being.

Inspired by the interspecies collaborations that have enabled the saltmarsh to grow 3-5m a year at #gibraltarpoint nature reserve, where the work is currently on show. Part of a group exhibition on the edge of The Wash @lincolnshirewildlifetrust Ongoing ponderings and explorations as part of the @groundworkgallery residency.

I had fun making this one, with some lovely human collaborations! Digging up clay that was once ancient saltmarsh with my dad on our farm in the fens, processed by hand with the smell of the sea and transformed by fire @_brickfield_ and @_claytrap_ into mud micro beings.

Bioelectrical sound recordings of saltmarsh plants bring insight into their inner world, sensing, signalling and photosynthesizing. Playing through the clay speaker. Fabric dyed with reeds and silkscreen printed with mud @johnhowardprint

On show at Gibraltar Point until Sunday - join us for printmaking and mud painting workshops with @emilybowers.studio and @rosy_prue

Multispecies Being (Cosmovision) Mixed media installation: Fen clay; cotton voile (dyed with reeds and rusty farmyard iron); wash mud silkscreen print; reed and elder ink and mud on board, bioelectrical recordings of intertidal plants

Thank you @sara.heywood for photos