News
I’m delighted to be invited as a presenter at the annual congress of the TECHNE / AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership at UAL: ‘Living and Making, Practice Research in and beyond the Arts’.
An interdisciplinary programme of support and training for a group of PhD students across its partner institutions. January 2025.
My book ‘Wild Basketry’ is available for pre-order from Bloomsbury Publishing. Publication date 8 May 2025.
6 basketry projects plus contextual information about the possible origins of basketry and its evolution; guidelines for identifying basketry plants and understanding their ecosystems; protocols and principles for harvesting and processing plant fibres.
I’m exhibiting wild cordage in collaboration with ‘Mother Goddess of the Three Realms: Cross-Ecounters, Joining Threads’
An ongoing project that explores shared Vietnamese-UK heritage and knowledge.
August 2023.
Hazel Holloway opens at Wakehurst Kew, Sussex, in Pearcelands Wood. May 2023.
Seven large archways of interwoven living hazel along and ancient holloway track.
Open to the public as permanent installation. In June we found a blackbird nesting in one arch; later a wren’s nest with chicks in another arch.
Charleston Festival of the Garden.
As a contributor to ‘Meadow’ published by Royal Botanic Kew, I’ll be part of a panel discussion speaking about the uses of straw and grasses in traditional basketry.
July 2023.