Joseph Walsh

Join us this full moon for Plant Gazing with Joseph Walsh, a unique opportunity to connect with plant allies and set personal intentions for the days ahead. Immerse yourself in the IMT Gallery space, subtly smudged with mugwort to encourage chi flow. A curated selection of plants will be available for drawing and painting, accompanied by prompts and guidance on the techniques of plant gazing and observation. We’ll take a moment to reconnect to our bodies and the living world through meditation, and a serene Lemon Balm tea ceremony, grounding ourselves in the present moment. 🌱 Plant Gazing will take place on Saturday 30 May from 6-8pm. Space is limited. Follow the link in bio to find out more and book a place. A limited number of tickets are available free of charge for residents of Tower Hamlets. These places have been lovingly created with support from Tower Hamlets Council. _ Image: Portrait of Joseph Walsh by Maggie Roberts. #BotanicalArts #PlantGazing #LondonWorkshops #workshoplondon #londonartevents

In January, artists Rosalind Fowler (Stone Tellers) and Joseph Walsh initiated Beholding the Garden, a year-long residency at South London Urban Gardeners’ @_s.l.u.g._ Bellenden Gardens Nature Garden site in Peckham. Together with a group of invited artists, we have been leading a series of alternative site visits to attune and sense into the land as a form of embodied research, through practices including movement, mapping, drawing, meditation and ritual approaches, craft-making, plant connection, sounding, and socially engaged practice. The visits are site-specific, responding to what we encounter within the garden, and also exploring the relationship between this urban garden and the community outside. Part 1 of the project, entitled Choreography and Pace, has been concerned with radically slowing down, investigating bodily relationships and sensory attunements with each other, and with the more-than-human inhabitants of this small, verdant patch of urban land. Collaborative offerings have included an exquisite corpse writing exercise with @flatness.eu based around sightlines and queer perspectives on the garden, and @adkerton embodied exploration of the notochord, a significant structure in our embryological development, as we trace its energetic pathway in our mature bodies and in doing so explore the botanical gesture of rooting to rise. The work continues to unfold.. Gratitude to Alice at SLUG for so generously offering us this space Supported by a-n Magazine and @freelandsfoundation

💡 Explore experiential approaches to nature and ecology, and develop your artistic work through new ways of looking, sensing, and thinking. 🍀 Enroll now in the Live Online Course FLORAL TIME: How Artists Describe Plants by Joseph Walsh, part of the BAI Online Program by Berlin Art Institute. ⭐️ Across four sessions, participants will engage in activities and exercises that open up different perspectives on nature, drawing from herbalism, botany, philosophy, animism, and horticulture. 🔎 Apply artistic methods to human relationships with nature and explore otherwise “alien” epistemologies. 🔎 Engage with art, writing, and artefacts that reflect on how human beings relate to the natural world. 🔎 Discuss animist thinking, non-human time, the self in relation to plants, and storytelling practices that give natural phenomena a sense of personhood. 👉 /online-art-courses/courses/floral-time-how-artists-describe-plants-by-joseph-walsh/ Text & photo by courtesy of @_____joewalsh__

I will be doing Plant Gazing as an online course starting 2nd November. It will explore botanical consciousness through different lenses, with ongoing exercises and assignments. Hosted by @imtgallery who I have been developing plant gazing with. One of our plant allies is rose - its effects are slow and softening - our chosen mode to explore botanical time and consciousness. Hope you can come Please forward to anyone who may be interested. Link to full description and enrolement in bio

Join us for a new four session online course exploring how plants inform our relationship with the earth, ourselves, and other forms of consciousness. Held fortnightly, this course invites you to view the plant world through multiple lenses including art, botany, animism, and philosophy. Together, we’ll observe the plants around us, both indoors and out, through drawing, painting, and writing. Led by artist Joseph Walsh and hosted by IMT Gallery, each live session includes meditations, creative exercises, and guided activities designed to open up new ways of seeing, sensing, and co-existing with nature. 🌱 Places are limited - the course begins 2 November. Ready to see plants differently? Follow the link in bio for full course details, and to enrol. #BotanicalArt #BotanicalArts #PlantGazing #BotanyLovers #OnlineArtCourse #ArtCourse #ArtCourses

Joseph Walsh invites you to a rose tea ceremony and discussion of what has arisen from his residency during Beaconsfield's 30th anniversary 'exhillation' Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation. During his time with Beaconsfield, he has considered how the flourishing gallery garden might inform underlying environmental themes of the exhibition. He asks how plant communities and eco-systems growing alongside human organisational structures might inform or inflect one another. Uppermost in the artist's mind are considerations of slow plant time in contrast to digital screen time, strategies for decentring the human and speculations about creating better environments for neuro-divergence. These topics are up for discussion, or participants can just appreciate the experience of rose tea, speaking less to let plants speak up. Saturday, 9th August, 2.30pm Also see the exhibition which includes videos curated by A.L. Steiner Beaconsfield 22 Newport St London SE11 6AY

Join me this Tuesday 8th July , 7pm @imtgallery for Plant Gazing. We will draw and drink the Rose plant, developing drawing and writing, prompts will be given I have been working with rose this year, and I will also share my thoughts. For example, its softening and slowing qualities as a kind of blurring perception - this by contrast to screen time which has coerced our perception into merely clocking edge, definition and outline. Rose is one way to bring you back to the body. Picture 2 “There is a six-petalled rose at the centre of the labyrinth of Chartres. Whoever has walked or will walk the path of the labyrinth is treading the Sacred Way of the Rose from circumference to centre and the return journey from centre to circumference, taking with him or her, the experience of the central circle which is the direct communion with the energy and frequency of Divine Love” Link to book in bio

Coming up! ‘Grow Where You’re Planted’, a social and environmental justice gardening festival on 28 June organised by @globalgeneration and @britishlibrary . Artist gem Joseph Walsh will be interviewing me about my practice and PhD research into liberatory gardening (queer, anti-colonial, slow…), and we will be sharing stories of our journeys into growing. Third image is by Joseph 🌼 It looks set to be a full and rich event at the Story Garden, with food and family friendly programming. Link to book free tickets in bio 🌿🐜🫛

Nurture your connection to nature with artist Joseph Walsh’s (@_____joewalsh__ ) new ‘Plant Gazing’ workshop, ‘Under Waxing Crescent Moon’. This workshop offers a unique opportunity to connect with plant allies, and set personal intentions for the days ahead. Immerse yourself in the @imtgallery space, subtly infused with frankincense - woody, fresh and up-lifting. A curated selection of plants will be available for drawing, accompanied by prompts and guidance on the techniques of plant gazing and observation. In this two hour workshop we will explore the mysteries of plants through drawing, painting, and meditative observations, we will go beyond the confines of the ordinary. We’ll take a moment to reconnect to our bodies and the living world through a serene Rose tea ceremony, grounding ourselves in the present moment. We will consider rose energy. Joseph Walsh, an artist rooted in forging human-nature connections through his work with plants. Using drawing, painting and film to actualise a co-existing with nature. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, and recently delivered the course ‘Floral Time: How Artists Describe Plants’ at the Berlin Art Institute, workshops at Beaconsfield Gallery and the Jamyang Buddhist Centre, as well as sharing insights with art students at Goldsmiths and Reading University. 🎟️ Plant Gazing will take place on Tuesday 8 July at 7pm. Reserve your spot now via our link in bio, for an evening of inspiration and connection. A limited number of tickets are available free of charge for residents of Tower Hamlets. These places have been lovingly created with support from Tower Hamlets Council. See you there! [1] Portrait of Joseph Walsh by Mycelium Curran [2] Rose drawing by Joseph Walsh #BotanicalArt #BotanicalArts #PlantGazing #TowerHamlets #BethnalGreen #EastLondonArt #LondonWorkshops #HolisticArt #LondonArtEvents #LondonEvents

Am in residence during this exhibition @beaconsfield_gallery_vauxhall I will consider the gallery’ s garden and how it may inform the shows theme Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation. Catch me at the opening 31st May, I will show you Plant Gazing 🌱☺️ 1pm-3pm. Beaconsfield’s 30th anniversary exhibition Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation (21 May-9 August 2025) Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY

Do you want to deepen and expand your creative practice through taking time to connect to the more than-human world? Are you interested in developing an embodied and intuitive understanding of plants? Would you benefit from some time out to slow down your nervous system and take a pause from linear time? It’s been great to receive so much interest in our artist-led plant connection retreat. 2-3 final spaces have now opened up for this special gathering taking place on 11 acres of land on the edge of north London, from early evening on Friday 6th June until Saturday 7th late afternoon. The retreat will include guided drawing/painting practices, plant observation and meditations, ritual and medicine making, as well as gentle yoga and movement. Vegan meals provided and we will camp on the land. No art /movement or yoga experience required. Fees: £85 for weekend retreat plus £20 for all meals. DM/email us for the full details or with any questions: [email protected] / [email protected]. Watercolour by Joe Walsh

Plant Connection Retreat, 6th - 7th June 2025 Artists Joe Walsh and Rosalind Fowler invite you to a nourishing plant-centered retreat taking place over 1 day and 1 night set within 11 acres of community land on the outskirts of London. This will be a special opportunity to let our busy lives go, and step into non-linear plant time. Through embodied practices that support slowing down our nervous systems, the retreat will centre around encountering a healing plant growing in its natural habitat. We will take time for drawing, observation, sensory herbal connection, herbal making, seasonal rituals, and sharing in nature. These activities will be supported by gentle yoga, movement and meditation practices. Through the plant, we will also be exploring themes and energies of the Summer season, associated with the heart and the element of fire, with flowers the full expression of the plant at this time, and our hearts the channel to connect to ourselves and each other. Vegan meals provided and camp on the land. No drawing or yoga/movement experience required, all welcome. You are welcome to bring favourite art materials, some also provided. Weekend retreat cost - £85 Plus all meals - £20 Arrival time Friday 6pm, end time Saturday 5pm For more information DM/email Joe or Rosalind [email protected] / [email protected]