Nigel Green and Robin Wilson established Photolanguage in 2000, to work on exhibition and article projects about architecture and landscape. Their talk will be an extensively illustrated account of the use of urban plants in their work, focusing on previous exhibitions in Calais, Gloucester and Copenhagen. A selection of original works and publications will also be on display for the evening.

They write, ‘Whilst the starting point for our projects is usually the built environment, particularly of the modern period, an attention to the presence of plants has also been a consistent feature of our urban documentations. Botany and the botanical foray provides a useful field of metaphor through which to reflect on our art practice, echoing its processes of voyaging, the desirous search for the ‘new’, the exotic within ordinary, and the encoding of data within a pre existing framework of reference. In a recent project exhibited in the Copenhagen Botanical Gardens we studied the transformed condition of urban plants in winter or “dark season” die-back. This led us to produce fictional or alien species of plant, uncategorizable hybrid plant forms. In this talk we will also show the recent evolution of this work and speculate on its implications in relation to our perception of the city.’