current and forthcoming

recent

2024
– New Perspectives on Botanical Gardens. Speaker at conference at Oxford University with The Gardens Trust
– Ecology and Poetic Modes of Thought. Speaker at workshop at Nova Institute of Philosophy (Ifilnova) University of Lisbon, organized by Bartholomew Ryan
https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/eventos/ecology-and-poetic-modes-of-thought/
– Scientific Heritage, Arts and Sustainability. Speaker at workshop at The Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Lisbon https://www.museus.ulisboa.pt/node/648

2023
– Recipient of 2023 RSA William Littlejohn Award, which grants £2,000 for excellence and innovation in water-based media.
– The Amazon Basin as a Connecting Borderland: Examining Cultural and Artistic Fluidities in the Early Modern Period. Participation in seminar programme supported by Getty Foundation

2022
– Recording the Intangible: Approaches to the ethnographic archive. Leader of workshop designed for Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership at RGB, Kew
– ‘Biocultural collections: learning to work together’ talk with Luciana Martins and Lindsay Sekulowicz for Latin American Plant Humanities Workshop, Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of London.

2021
– Recipient of Frederick Soddy Postgraduate Award, awarded by Royal Geographical Society. ‘After the fire: documenting ethnobotanical knowledge, material practices and belief systems within indigenous communities of the Northwest Amazon’  The award provides PhD students carrying out research on ‘the study of the social, economic and cultural life of a region’ anywhere in the world.

2020
Drawing from the museum and the rainforest, Lindsay Sekulowicz and Antje Southern in conversation, The Royal Drawing School, London.

2019
– Commencement of collaborative PhD at University of Brighton and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Title: Collection to Source: Cosmology and ethnobotanical artefacts of the Northwest Amazon.
– AHRC TECHNE fully funded doctoral studentship awarded.

2018
– residency to Jamaica awarded by the Royal Drawing School, following the story of the lace-bark tree.
– Year long residency at the Economic Botany Collection in Kew Gardens, towards a project on the collections of botanist and explorer Richard Spruce. Funded by Arts Council England
– Speaker at roundtable event at Birkbeck University, hosted by Luciana Martins (cultural historian), William Milliken (ethnobotanist) and Antje Southern (art historian).
– Plantae Amazonicae exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew Gardens, until March 2018.
The exhibition is a collaboration between Lindsay, botanists at Kew Gardens, and a wider research team. It shows new works alongside a selection of Richard Spruce’s 19th century artefacts from the Amazon. The work has been made in collaboration with Cultural Historian Luciana Martins (Birkbeck, University of London), Ethnobotanist William Milliken (Kew) and Museum Curator Mark Nesbitt (Kew), and includes photography by Elena Heatherwick.

2017
– A site of encounter:Amazonian artefacts and materials. Public talks, Marianne North Gallery, Kew Gardens. Every Sunday in October.
– British Council Residency in The City of the Dead, Cairo.
– The Passengers, exhibition at Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaytbay Mosque and Mausoleum, Cairo.

2016
– Royal Drawing School/Moritz-Heyman Residency in Pignano, Tuscany
– The Professor’s Garden, an exhibition of Ethiopian works at Tallowin, Windmill Street,  London.
– Joanna Drew Travel Bursary awarded towards field work in Ethiopia.

2015
– Expedition with entomologists from Museo “La Specola”, The Natural History Museum of Florence, to Southern Vietnam (Cát Tiên and  Bidoup Nui Ba National Parks).
– Research trip to the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu, China for the annual harvest of Yartsa Gunba (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) parasitic fungus.

2014
– Creative Futures at Sura Medura, exhibition at The Briggait, Glasgow.
– Making History, Colombo Art Biennale 2014. Colombo, Sri Lanka
– Sura Medura Residency.  International artist residency centre in Hikkaduwa, South West Sri Lanka, maintained by Glasgow based arts charity UZ Arts.

2013
– EX-VOTO, exhibition at Herrick Gallery
– Public Talk at the Lamb Gallery, Dundee University
– Drawn from Structures Living and Dead. The Lamb Gallery, University of Dundee.
– Voříšek’s Weevils in Preserved! blog related to the AHRC Research Network The Cultures of Preservation.

2012
– Of Natural and Mystical Things, the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
– RSA Barns-Graham Residency. In collaboration with the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, University of Dundee.