The Gramounce (Barney Pau and Hannah Morgan) (GB)
Edible Memories: Foraging, Food and Photography
August 9th – August 15th 2026
The Gramounce (Barney Pau and Hannah Morgan) United Kingdom
The Gramounce
The Gramounce is a collective researching food-based art and contemporary politics. The Gramounce pursues the re-conceptualisation of the world through food, reframing a foodscape reality where to develop an artistic practice. Through alternative education, residencies, workshops, and a supper club, the collective studies food as a valid discipline in the arts and academia, understanding food as foundational to any world-building exercise.
https://www.instagram.com/thegramounce/
Barney Pau
Barney Pau a London-based culinary creative working at the confluence of food, art, and writing, whose practice focuses on food futures, queering consumption, and foraging and fermenting as social resistance. His writing, food, and artwork examine the intersection between language, culture and nature through contemporary social critique. He believes food, in its ubiquity, transcends language as a mode of communication, and by applying it as an artistic medium, it can be used to impart new thinking. In his practice, he uses food both to communicate his thinking and as a point of departure for research. Barney is editor of The Gramounce Journal, tutor on their AltMA, and director of their Queer Food Short Course.
https://www.barneypau.com/
https://www.instagram.com/barneypau/
Hannah Morgan
Hannah is a visual artist living in Bristol, UK. Using predominantly analogue photography and sustainable plant-based processing, her work explores ecology, ancient memory, human relationships and the interconnected nature of our planet. Blurring the boundaries of fact and fiction, dream and reality, Hannah’s work invites the environment to become a part of the process, thus challenging the physicality of imagery through imperfection, deterioration and a fusion between the photograph’s surface and nature’s physical matter.
www.thegramounce.com
Edible Memories: Foraging, Food and Photography
August 9th – August 15th
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The Workshop
Preservation permeates our everyday lives, from the promise of an extended shelf life that keeps food indefinitely edible to the myriad photos we capture every day to freeze a moment or a memory. We have grown accustomed to a sense of permanence, a desire for things to be everlasting. But nature and its seasons are about change, progression and the surprise of the new.
The workshop is led by food artist Barney Pau and photographer Hannah Morgan, whose extensive research and experience working with natural landscapes as a source of inspiration has developed into a long-lasting collaborative artistic practice. Through the lens of food and photography, this research-based workshop will take a critical look at our unnatural obsession with permanence and preservation, and introduce ideas and ways of thinking which centre on a fragility and impermanence inspired by Boisbuchet’s local landscape.
Over the week, we will seek to appreciate how the idea of ‘preservation’ can be ephemeral and impermanent, and introduce this way of thinking that can inspire us to have a more attuned relationship with the natural world around us. Together, we will engage in a series of practical, process-based activities such as foraging for plants to ferment and develop analogue photos with, making our own papers from local plants, engaging in mapping exercises and sketchbook practices, and creating dyes and printing materials. These practical activities will, in turn, serve as a point of departure for exploring broader theoretical themes around preservation and impermanence, and our interactions with the natural world.