Francesca Willow

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We need imagination to build a better world. That means equitable arts funding AND having ethical redlines, and believing that it is possible to achieve these things! Radical imagination is the job of creative people, after all. There are other options out there, so let’s explore them!! Let’s build communities that don’t rely on dirty money to survive and instead ask what thriving arts ecosystems could look like. #climatejustice #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActionNow #ClimateJusticeNow #fossilfreefuture #fossilfreeculture #fossilfree #fossilfreerevolution #StopAllFields #NoMoreOil #NoMoreFossilFuels #ClimatePolicy #RenewableEnergy #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #Keep1point5Alive #OurHouseIsOnFire #ClimateActivism #PeoplePower #artnotoil #freepalestine

Happy greens won the by election day to all who celebrate!!! 🌝🌻✊ Love you @greenpartyzack @hannahtheplumbermcr HOPE IS HERE (artwork on slide 6 by @wizardofbarge )

Some new people around here these days, so thought a little reintroduction may be in order. Hello! I’m Francesca, I’m an artist, writer & climate campaigner, so my page can be quite diverse. I’m a Geordie who has been in Cornwall for 8 years and I love it here! I trained as a dancer and now work across performance & making weird and wacky stuff (mainly from waste materials to divert them them from landfill and transform them into something new and hopeful), I run a blog talking about climate justice and sustainability, and I’ve campaigned against UK oil and gas, fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship, and for human rights. I believe the issues in our society are inextricably connected, there is no climate justice without social justice, so I try and do everything I can to support those building community and working towards a liberated future for all. If you found me through memes I just share those for a little laugh, you can find more serious writing on my website! For full transparency, I took a break from writing on there because my dad died a few months ago. I’m currently in PTSD treatment for that (I won’t go into more details on social media) but hope to bring back regularly scheduled writing there soon. For any more official writing stuff I’m repped by @abirfellows at DHH. Lots of love to those who follow me, I hope the mix of climate justice and creativity is interesting to those of you out there who both love the arts and our planet! #independentartists #climatejustice #climatejusticenow

Highlight of the month absolutely goes to the angel that is @shahedezaydi . Her book ‘The Othered Woman’ is a must-read for those of us in white, Global North countries (especially those with a history of invading and colonising those in the Global South). An important book for understanding how we’re in the situation we’re in, where white feminism is failing, and what needs to change. Absolutely pick it up next time you visit your local bookshop! (Also special mention goes to Peter Hook’s book. Only really applies if you’re a joy division fan, but if you are it’s a brilliant and emotional read.) #bookrecs📚 #readingiscool #libraryofinstagram #bookstagrammer

Some facts: more people voted for the Greens at the 2026 local elections than at the 2024 general election. One million more voted Green than their highest ever vote share (mayoral elections not included in the count!) This, when @greenpartyzack has been in charge for ~8 months, up against a relentless smear campaign backed by billionaires. Yes, the fascist and far right rise is horrible and we have a lot left to do. But this isn’t the time to give in to despair. It’s the time to get organised, to get into your communities and to build better alternatives. We owe it to each other! (Final slide is the new capybara baby that was just born in Edinburgh. I love them)

New Exhibition! 9 May - 23 May @plougharts @camp_membership @aceagrams @fishfactoryarts KIN opens today 2 - 4pm and runs until May 23rd, exploring the connections, hidden or visible, that exist between artists building creative community despite geographical distance. ❤️ @emmadigerudwhite @seasewed @ethicalunicorn @gemmadaniellemackenzie @ionemariarojas @octaviahm @grace_wyld @tanannatheartist @tushkaillustrates @ethicalunicorn @lottie_bolster @annabellehulbertart Warm thanks to Gemma Girvan and Malc of @thelmahulbertgallery for the incredible curatorial support 🙏❤️ Huge thanks also to the generous support given by @artizangallery and @hellolowprofile @gmarkleahy 🙏❤️⚓️ In warm and loving memory of @francesstaniforth7777 who played a key role in seeding and nurturing the KINections programme.🕊️❤️🙏

✨ Installation is underway! ✨ KIN is open from tomorrow until May 23rd, exploring the connections, hidden or visible, that exist between artists building creative community despite geographical distance. And come down tomorrow at 2pm for the private view and to meet the artists in person! Featuring: @emmadigerudwhite @seasewed @gemmadaniellemackenzie @art.helenelizabeth @Ionemariarojas @octaviahm @tanannatheartist @tushkaillustrates @ethicalunicorn @lottie_bolster @annabellehulbertart @grace_wyld #artistsoninstagram #independentartists #southwestcreatives #southwestartists

✨Introducing our final KIN artists ✨ Francesca Willow is a Cornwall-based artist, writer and climate justice activist. Inspired by the idea of the symbiocene - a future where humans live and flourish symbiotically with our environments and each other - she invents colourful worlds and repurposes waste materials, inviting people to imagine the better futures we could build. Her work at KIN asks what the land around us may become in future, what utopia might look like, and what new monuments might be born in the better world we try and build here, together. Gemma Mackenzie investigates the shifting dynamics between control and its collapse. She explores everyday worries such as climate change, health anxiety, and self‑image, opening up space for conversation. Her work at KIN explores the restless emotional currents that are constantly fluctuating within us, and how this can connect us to others. KIN is open from May 9th - 23rd at The Plough. #artistsoninstagram #independentartists #southwestcreatives #southwestartists

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how Earth Month transforms directly into May Day, aka International Workers’ Day. The history of International Workers’ Day traces back to the USA in the 1880s, where unions pushed for an eight-hour workday through strikes and demonstrations. In May 1886, more than 300,000 workers in 13,000 businesses across the United States walked off their jobs in the first May Day celebration in history. In Chicago, the epicentre of the 8-hour day demonstrators, a rally turned deadly when a bomb exploded and police fired into the crowd (how many were killed has not been determined, it isn’t known who threw the bomb). Several activists, many of them immigrants, were convicted of conspiracy and other charges; four were executed (The remaining organisers were pardoned six years later by the Governor, who publicly lambasted the judge on a travesty of justice). Unions later designated May 1 to honour workers. The day is observed in most of the world, with unions often using May Day to rally around wages, pensions, inequality and broader political issues. This year, global May Day protests saw millions call to tax the rich, abolish ICE, demand better wages and fairer contracts, and to end funding for imperial violence in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon (and more). These dates being next to each other in the calendar serves as an important reminder of how inherently linked these struggles are. There is no climate justice without liberation for the working class. There is no livable planet while a billionaire class of genocidaires continues on, there is no better future while millions fear violence, abuse and deportation due to rising fascism and racism. While arbitrary borders and ‘curbs on immigration’ exist. There is a better world out there, but it requires radical transformation in all these areas, not just the same but greener. There is no Earth Month without May Day. (Photo by @teegan_azaria for the algorithm you know how it is) #earthmonth #mayday #internationalworkersday #climatejustice #workersrights

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