SEMANTICA
2021 – Current
Co-founder, Director
Semantica is artist duo Jemma Foster and Camilla French, whose work explores fragile ecologies and interspecies communication through emerging technologies.Their practice incorporates biodata, sound, film, generative art and sculptural works. Collaborating with engineers, biologists and musicians to examine ways of sensing and co-creating with more-than-human worlds, they create large-scale interactive installations. They have produced projects about human and plant mythology, planetary processes, the soil microbiome, industrial agriculture and altered states of consciousness.
WILD ALCHEMY LAB
2020 – Current
Founder, Director
Creative Director & Editor of Wild Alchemy Journal
Wild Alchemy Lab is a creative studio exploring ecology and esoterica at the intersection of art, technology and consciousness research. Our global collective of leading artists, academic researchers and practitioners research and produce print and digital experiences, including an augmented-reality journal, XR installations, film and artwork that navigates the intimate entanglements between human and more-than-human worlds.
MAMA XANADU
2014–2022
Founder, Director
Chef, mixologist, herbalist, wildcrafter
A multi-disciplinary experimental botanical studio offering wild mixology, immersive dining experiences, creative workshops, consultancy and product development. Clients included Soho House, Goop, Innocent, Woodland Trust.
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SOLO ARTWORKS
ALTAR - A FREQUENCY Garden, 2026, digital artwork
lithomancER , 2026, mixed stone, beech wood, sand, string
GEOMANCY - atlas garden, 2026, cyanotype sun print on 300gsm watercolour paper, ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide
ECOMANCY SIGLS, 2026, clay, wild herbs, string, cotton material, fabric paint, stones, marker
vibrant matter - sonic sculpture, various, 2024-, Portland stone, copper wire, field recordings, video
shared horizons, 2024, card deck and interactive game
Living labyrinth, 2021, plants, sound installation
COLLABORATIVE ARTWORKS
as above so below - with semantica and juan cortés, 2025, LED Strips, LED lights, electronic circuitry, projectors, computer, ceramics
oneiric olive - with jamie perera, 2024, digital audio file, live spoken word performance
geomantra - with semantica, 2023, digital artwork and sound installation
a tale of two seeds: sound and silence in latin america’s andean plains, with atractor, 2023, sound installation
ROOTS-XIBALBA - with SEmantica, 2023, film and sound installation
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
geomancy: sensing earth, No 6 Gallery, Bruton, UK, May 2026
ECOMANCY: A GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS, Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2026
Living labyrinth, Antepavillion, London, UK, October 2021
SACRED GEOMETRY, Digital 3D exhibition, June 2020
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
SOIL - THE WORLD AT OUR FEET, Somerset House, London, UK, January 2025 (Commission)
COSMOTECHNICS, FACT, Liverpool, UK, November 2024
espesuras: habitar un mundo herido, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, October 2024
feria del millión, contemporary art fair, Bogota, Colombia, October 2024
istanbul digital art fair, IDAT, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2024
ars electronica, Linz, Austria, September 2024
surtropia, festival de la imagen, Manizales, Colombia, October 2022
ssöne, London, UK, December 2021
PERFORMANCES
Oneiric Soils - Dreaming with Plants, Fertile Ground, Barbican, March 2025
Becoming Plant, Nervous Systems, ICA London, April 2024
Dreaming With Stones, The Secret Life of Stones, ICA London, March 2024
WORKSHOPS
Shared Horizons, Fertile Ground, Barbican, March 2025
Plant Lab: More Than Human Rights, Serpentine Galleries/Nowadays, COP16, Cali, Colombia, November 2024
Plant Lab: Vegetal Policy. Climate Live, COP28, Dubai, UAE, November 2023
Phytogrammetry, Gaian Ecologies, Camden Arts Centre, September 2023
TALKS
REWILDING ECOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY, HUWD, Reference Point, London, September 2026
Myth and Magic Making: Art as a Sacred Act, Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD), Portugal, April 2026
Arts and Imagination, Panel Discussion, World Living Soil Forum, Arles, France, October 2024
Becoming Plant, Symbiocene, London, October 2024
Planting the Seeds, Keynote, The Conference, Malmö, Sweden, August 2024
Plant Lab. Panel Discussion, Entertainment and Culture Pavilion, COP28, Dubai, UAE, November 2023
RESIDENCIES
ECOMANCY, Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal April 2026
THE BODY IS AN ANTENNA, ATLAS, Portugal April 2026
ONEIRIC SOILS, Kos, Greece October 2023
ART DIRECTION
LIFE SYSTEMS STUDIO. Life Systems Studio, Bristol, UK, October 2026
Emergence, Kinda Studios x 113 Spring Street, NYC, September 2025
Illuminated Lies, Edinburgh Festival, August 2024
WRITING/PUBLICATIONS
Oneiric Soils - Dreaming With Plants, Wild Alchemy Lab 2025
Shared Horizons, 15th Havana Biennial, Cuba, 2025
Wild Alchemy, An Astro-Botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants, Lawrence King 2024
Wild Alchemy Lab, An Astro-Botanical Remedy Deck, Lawrence King 2023
Aether Issue, Wild Alchemy Journal 2023
Air Issue, Wild Alchemy Journal 2022
Water Issue, Wild Alchemy Journal 2021
Fire Issue, Wild Alchemy Journal 2021
Earth Issue, Wild Alchemy Journal 2020
Sacred Geometry, Octopus, 2020
Cardboard Book Project, short story collection, 2012
freelance journalist Time Out, The Times, The London Paper, The Observer, Marie Claire 2005-2010
SHORT FILMS
Cardboard MISCELLANEOUS MICRO FILMS. - editor, Wild Alchemy Journal 2021-2024
XIBALBA, director, 2022
SELKIE, executive producer, 2022
FIREBIRD, producer, 2022
ROOTS, director, 2021
GHOSTIN’, producer, 2014
LOVE IN THE ASYLUM, producer and scriptwriter, 2014
SOUND
Dreaming with Stones - concept, field recording, spoken word and production, September 2024
Oneiric Olive - concept, field recording, production, October 2023
A Tale of Two Seeds - research, field recording and production, October 2023
Roots-Xibalba - concept, research, field recording and production, June 2022
Huito - concept, research, field recording and production, June 2021
AWARDS/GRANTS
vibrant matter: sonic sculptures, Arts Council England DYCP. Vibrant Matter: Sonic Sculptures 2025-26
a tale of two seeds: Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica Digital Musics and Sound Art 2023
SELECTED PRESS
floromancy, alchemy, Condé Nast Traveller, 2026
the wonderful world of soil, Resurgence & Ecologist, 2025
Sound Art Inspired By A Battle Between Two Plants, Forbes, 2023
Who Owns The Truth, Wired, 2023
The Rise of the Midlife Witch, Sunday Times Style, 2023
Prix Ars Electronica, Art Review, 2023
At Work With, Magculture, 2023
The Vogue Guide To Being A Modern Witch, Vogue, 2020
Natural remedies are back in vogue: meet the new herbalists, Evening Standard, 2017
EDUCATION
post graduate professional qualifications in herbalism, wildcrafting, astrology, homeopathy, sound therapy and interdisciplinary healing arts, UK, USA, 2012-2022
diploma in journalism and publishing, University of the Arts, London, 2006
MA eNGLISH LITERATURE, WITH PHILOSOPHY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, Edinburgh University, 2005