A model future

Gabrielle Hoad | The Grid and the Mesh (detail) | 2015

My exhibition is now up and running at the Environment & Sustainability Institute in Cornwall. It concludes a year-long collaboration with Dr Jonathan Bennie under the ESI/RANE Creative Exchange Programme, during which we made a study of microclimates on a Devon farm — with a view to growing bananas.

Attempting to grow a tropical fruit such as bananas outdoors in the UK demands a leap of faith and an act of imagination. The project has been focused on envisaging alternative versions of our everyday growing and eating practices. 

Foreign Soil, Environment & Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE 

11 March – 15 April 2015 Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm

Foreign Soil was supported by the ESI/RANE Creative Exchange Programme and developed in partnership with OrganicARTS and West Town Farm. Technical Consultant: Tim King