Botanical artist & forager Emma Thistlewaite in conversation with textile & paper artist Mandy Coppes-Martin (FREE, ONLINE)
Emma Thistlethwaite is a florist & botanical artist. Thistlewaite’s approach to floral design references the year’s circularity & the natural curation of flowers in wild environments; mindful foraging for botanicals also being a part of her practice as a way of harnessing the untamed to create unique and ephemeral compositions.
Mandy Coppes-Martin completed her MA Fine Art at the University of Johannesburg, where she concentrated on the development of local and invasive plant fibres for the production of specialist papers. Her current work locates a mark of time – past, present, future – in a particular moment of decomposition and inescapable ephemerality.