Fukt Magazine #22
The Nature Issue
Illustrations for the Queer Botany at Walthamstow Marshes map, tapestries, and website have been published in FUKT magazine # 22, the nature issue, for contemporary drawing. The artwork accompanies an article about queer ecology by Faye Campbell with artwork by Sarah Davidson and Hannalie Coetzee. You can order the issue now.
Fukt Magazine # 22 interior spread
Queer Botany at Walthamstow Marshes was a tour with a series of outdoor interpretive displays that told stories about plants from marginalised perspectives. The focus was on such site-specific wild plants as the dog rose, horse chestnut, willow and yellow flag. Participants could either learn about them on the project website, find the displays on their own, or be part of a guided tour at the Walthamstow Marshes, northeast London.
Rose hips and robin
The project emerges from the theoretical lens of queer ecology, which brings together queer theory and eco-criticism. A queer ecological perspective can help displace the dualities that are perceived to exist in culture and nature, preferring instead to insist on multiplicity and diversity. The aims are to share marginalised perspectives, support more diverse representations about the environment and outdoors and affirm connections between queerness and nature.
Willow coppicing cycle
These illustrations were applied to the Queer Botany website, linen tapestries for interpretive display, and a risograph printed map on recycled paper. Learn more about the project at Walthamstow Marshes here.
Coppiced Willow picnic blanket display
Editor-in-chief: Bjørn Hegardt
Editors: Faye Campbell & Max Parnell
Creative Director: Ariane Spanier
Cover animation: Lara Gessner
