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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
Curation and Art Direction
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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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
SOIL - The World At Our Feet, Somerset House, January 2025 (Commission)
Cosmotechnics, FACT, Liverpool, UK November 2024
Espesuras. Habitar Un Mundo Herido, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, October 2024
Feria del Millón, Contemporary Art Fair, Bogota, Colombia, October 2024
Istanbul Digital Art Festival, IDAT, Istanbul Turkey, May 2024
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, September 2023
Surtropia, Festival de la Imagen, 2022
Ssōne, London, UK, December 2021
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Living Labyrinth, Antepavillion, London, UK, October 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
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
Oneiric Soils, Kos, Greece October 2023
CREATIVE/ART DIRECTION
Lucid Dream Visualiser, NDA June 2025
Illuminated Lies, short films for interactive installation, August 2024
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
JOURNALISM
Freelance writer for Time Out, The Times, The London Paper, The Observer, Marie Claire 2005-2010
SHORT FILMS
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, voiceover and production, September 2024
Oneiric Olive - concept and field recording, October 2023
A Tale of Two Seeds - research, field recording and production, October 2023
Roots-Xibalba - research, field recording and production, June 2022
Huito - research, field recording and production, June 2021
AWARDS
Prix Ars Electronica's Digital Musics and Sound Art 2023
SELECTED PRESS
Forbes - Sound Art Inspired By A Battle Between Two Plants 2023
Wired - Who Owns The Truth 2023
Sunday Times Style - The Rise of the Midlife Witch 2023
Art Review - Prix Ars Electronica 2023
Magculture - At Work With 2023
Vogue - The Vogue Guide To Being A Modern Witch 2020
Evening Standard - Natural remedies are back in vogue: meet the new herbalists 2017
EDUCATION
Post graduate professional qualifications in herbalism, wildcrafting, sound and interdisciplinary healing arts
Diploma in Journalism and Publishing, University of the Arts, London
MA English Literature and Philosophy 2:1, (with International Law) Edinburgh University
Art, Politics, English Literature A Level, AAA