Jemma Foster

Somerset House

Artist

Jemma (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, curator and educator. Her work explores more-than-human intelligence, interspecies communication and emerging technologies. She challenges institutions and global leaders to reconsider nature from a place of relationship rather than resource and to integrate effective methods of deep listening. She actively advocates for the sovereignty and rights of plants as sentient beings, and is engaged in conversations around regenerative agriculture and mitigating the impact of agribusiness on global soils. She is founder of immersive botanical studio Mama Xanadu and transmedia art collective Wild Alchemy Lab, which publishes an augmented-reality print journal exploring ecology, science and esoterica at the intersection of art and technology, featuring some of the world’s leading creatives and thinkers. She also co-founded creative studio Semantica, winner of the Golden Nica for Digital Musics and Sound Art at Ars Electronica last year for A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America’s Andean Plains: a sound installation illustrating the devastating loss of biodiversity resulting from the agro-industrial expansion of GM soy monocultures in Latin America. Jemma is the author of Sacred Geometry (Octopus, 2020) and Wild Alchemy Lab: An Astro-botanical Remedy Deck (Laurence King, 2023), with a new book out this October, Wild Alchemy Lab: An Astro-Botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants (Laurence King, 2024).