Queer Botany Cyanotype Workshop with The Royal Parks
Photo by Connor Butler
The Royal Parks partnered with Queer Botany to host a printmaking workshop exploring the connection between nature and queerness.
Using plants from across The Royal Parks, we explored the cultural, mythological, and scientific links that plants have with queerness and use these plants to create vivid cyanotype sun prints to take home. Cyanotype printmaking was first developed in the 1840s and involves arranging plants onto paper coated in light-sensitive ink, which when exposed to sunlight creates a blue silhouette image.
The event was hosted at the LookOut Education Centre in Hyde Park and also featured a short, guided nature walk around the garden to discover plants and pondlife.
Below are slides from a presentation given at the workshop and photos from the event.
Co-facilitated with Connor Butler, Engagement Officer at The Royal Parks
