bryony james

I am an arts organiser based in London and South Wales. I lead foraging walks and workshops which use found organic matter as tools and materials for art making. I have worked with various arts organisations and community projects including Hart Club, Turf Projects, Deptford X and Glengall Wharf Community Garden.  

Interested in alternative art education and multi-species organisms as models for human collaboration, an overarching aim of my projects is to explore the often overlooked entanglements between humans and other forms of life - including plants, insects and microorganisms.

Alongside freelance work organising workshops and exhibitions, I work at the Royal College of Art and the Barbican Centre. I was previously Gallery Manager at Mimosa House. 

I studied MA Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. My thesis examined research into the human microbiome and how this urges a rethinking of humans as multispecies environments, troubling human/animal distinctions.