“For a glimpse of life right at the start of the age of animals, you can’t ask for anything better than this.” – New Scientist, 24 February 2020 When I did my MSc in Science Communication at Imperial College in the 1990s, one of the authors we read was Stephen Jay Gould – a science…
Category: EXHIBITIONS
I retold Whitby Abbey’s legends and myths to help new English Heritage audiences explore this unique location. Hear one of the stories here.
Whitby Abbey’s magnificent ruins tower above the North Yorkshire coastline. Nuns and monks first lived on the site in the seventh century, and finally left when King Henry VIII closed all monasteries, nine hundred years later. Over an even longer sweep of time, however, this clifftop place has inspired stories – from sunny and playful,…
Inspiration from the Horniman Museum heritage dye gardens – writing text and planting my own dye bed to make inks.
“Beautiful building set in lovely gardens… In suburbia with everyone from school groups, artists, and solo travellers visiting.” – TripAdvisor review, 2019 A few years ago I wrote text for the new garden displays at the Horniman Museum in south London, focusing on plants used in medicine, for materials, for food and in dyes. Fast…