Labverde: Amazon Residency
Manaus, Brazil, 2022
Marie-Louise was awarded the Art For the Environment Residency Scholarship from UAL and undertook a Labverde residency in the Amazon rainforest, an interdisciplinary programme bringing together artists and scientists to explore biodiversity, ecological systems, and human impact. Based at the Adolfo Ducke Forest Reserve, the residency emphasised direct observation, sensory experience, and collaborative learning within one of the world’s most complex living systems
Encounters with rainforest ecologies particularly leafcutter ant societies and their adaptive, subterranean architectures informed Marie-Louise’ thinking around collective organisation, material behaviour, and non-hierarchical systems. Working with soil, clay, and digital modelling processes, the residency deepened her interest in sculpture as a living, adaptive system shaped by cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. The experience continues to inform her research into material transformation, more-than-human relations, and regenerative approaches to making
Manaus, Brazil, 2022
Marie-Louise was awarded the Art For the Environment Residency Scholarship from UAL and undertook a Labverde residency in the Amazon rainforest, an interdisciplinary programme bringing together artists and scientists to explore biodiversity, ecological systems, and human impact. Based at the Adolfo Ducke Forest Reserve, the residency emphasised direct observation, sensory experience, and collaborative learning within one of the world’s most complex living systems
Encounters with rainforest ecologies particularly leafcutter ant societies and their adaptive, subterranean architectures informed Marie-Louise’ thinking around collective organisation, material behaviour, and non-hierarchical systems. Working with soil, clay, and digital modelling processes, the residency deepened her interest in sculpture as a living, adaptive system shaped by cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. The experience continues to inform her research into material transformation, more-than-human relations, and regenerative approaches to making
Photo/video credits: Vitor Barão, Rodrigo Valle