Fruiting Futures (2025)
Timber, oyster mushrooms, cardboard, waste cotton and linen, paper, sawdust, midi, bluetooth headphones

Fruiting Futures invites audiences to interact with panels made of living mycelium, grown from waste materials such as cardboard, old clothes, paper, coffee grounds, and sawdust collected locally in Cork. Over the course of the exhibition, visitors witnessed the gradual growth of this living structure, a form that was still becoming.

A living, breathing soundscape emerges through bioelectrical sensors attached to the mycelium. By gently moving the clamps, visitors can listen to the subtle electrical activity of the fungal networks, translated into sound through MIDI and played back via bluetooth headphones.

This work imagines sustainability as something intimate and alive: a process of care, connection, and co-creation with the natural world. What might it mean to grow a future not apart from nature, but with it?

Generously supported by the Jane Anne Rothwell Award from Cork City Council and Cork Midsummer Festival