projects
I create engaging eco-social projects to develop eco-mindfulness and reconnect communities to ecology and sustainability. [Click image]

Meeting Ground 2019

Meeting Ground was a project to record and communicate the embodied knowledge of islanders in the Outer Hebrides (UK) participating in climate change actions through developing local food growing hubs, establishing new ways to address the contemporary ecological crisis in a reciprocally beneficial way

Re-generation 2019

Re-Generation video project presents a Māori-led approach to inspiring and educating volunteers in regenerative planting practices in the effort to redress environmental balance to the Kākā Reserve in Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand.

Sewing Wildflowers 2016

Sewing Wildflowers was a fun, creative planting project for GROW WILD UK. A community sewing project created a floral banner and a series of botanical art classes and citizen science activities were used to engage and develop awareness of the importance of wildflowers.

Tha mi a bruadair 2014

Tha mi a bruadair | I am dreaming was a video project devised in collaboration with Shweta Bhattad’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Global Art, Farming and Peace Project. It was exhibited during COP21 at ArtCop21 ‘Faith in Paris’ Raising Farmers’ Voices in Paris. The video captures valuable intergenerational teaching by local crofters delivering a Crofting Course as part of the high school curriculum  in the Outer Hebrides (UK).

Machair Art 2011-13

Machair Art was a cultural programme to revitalise island youths' engagement with crofting. Co-designed and co-led by  artists, Laura Donkers and Olwen Shone, Machair Art delivered the community engagement aspect of Conserving Scottish Machair LIFE+ Project.