Synovium Podcast

Cal Flyn is an award-winning writer from the Highlands of Scotland. Her first book, Thicker Than Water (2016)—about frontier violence in colonial Australia—was a Times book of the year. Her second book, Islands of Abandonment (2021)—about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places—won the John Burroughs Medal, the American Academy of Arts & Letters’ E.M. Forster Award and the Sunday Times Youn...

Katie Grove is an artist, educator, and author whose passion is to inspire both viewers of her art and students in her classes to build a relationship with the plants growing around them. She teaches basketry from her studio in the Rondout Valley of New York State and enjoys a robust studio practice that merges traditional basketry techniques with sculpture. Katie holds a BFA in Printmaking from S...

Rouzbeh Rashidi (born in Tehran in 1980) is an Iranian-Irish experimental filmmaker who has been making films since 2000, when he founded the Experimental Film Society (EFS) in Tehran. EFS is an autonomous initiative established expressly to produce cinema through rigorous experimentation. In 2019, he also founded the EFS Film School, a philosophically grounded, artist-run initiative that embodies...

Nahla Tabbaa is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores tensions between the urban and the organic, the beautiful and the grotesque. She is drawn to materials that have the agency to self organize, adventuring into immateriality, magic and alchemy. Her methods are intentionally slow-paced, meditative and labour-intensive and permeate strands of her everyday life to heal and harmonise h...

Elizabeth Gleave is a creative strategist, educator and founder ~ creator, co-founder and director of Land Art Agency & Collective. Working across the globe at the intersection of ecology, storytelling and cultural communications to build projects that connect people, place and collective futures. As a marketing and communications educator and a visiting lecturer across UK institutions including C...

King Lexie is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher/educator whose work delves into the embodied politics of voice, listening, and emergence. Rooted in somatic practices, critical theory, and self-inquiry, her practice weaves together explorations of intimacy, power, and the poetics of the body. Emerging from an experimental and contemplative performance background, alongside eight years as a...

Victoria Gray [1982] is an artist and practice-led researcher, and has presented work nationally and internationally throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Canada. With an initial conservatoire training in dance and somatic practice (1998 - 2004), her primary medium and material is the body. Her work includes actions, interventions, time-based sculpture and video, being presented in museums, galleries...

Roberta Trentin is a multidisciplinary eco-artist who works in collaboration with the materials and the unknown outcomes. Her work explores overlooked stories of fungi, microorganisms, and plants in the more-than-human world. A background in science and a love of the earth result in an interweaving of macro/micro observations and deeply personal stories in her work. Roberta splits her time between...

Julie Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose art examines the remnants of beings and place. She has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, a BFA in Multimedia and Performing Arts from the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and certification in End-of-Life care (death doula). Alongside be...

From the teachings of his Grandfather, Luke Spencer came to know the gifts of nature; its lessons, its care, and its warmth to heal. Watching him at a knee-height age in his worn Dickies safety shoes tending and nurturing the tomatoes, runner beans, and peppers in his greenhouse and running down the garden path with them fresh in a brown paper bag to gift to Nanny for her casserole, Luke experienc...

John Friedrick is an artist, songwriter and pastor. He serves as the pastor of Oak Street Church in Silverton, OR. John graduated from Oregon State University in 2017 with a BS in Community Development. As an artist and pastor John seeks to cultivate a rich interior life while inviting his friends and neighbors to do the same. Emphasizing love as the central theme of life, while consciously disman...

Natalie Stopka is a Yonkers, New York based artist and educator focused on the material history of color. She captures material and elemental interactions in her collaborative, experimental art practice. Natalie's meticulous, layered imagery incorporates botanical dyes that are ethically foraged or cultivated in her studio garden. The plants provide a seasonally evolving vocabulary of texture and...

Elie Porter Trubert is a New Jersey artist who works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, audio, and photography. She is driven by a deep connection to nature, concern for the environment, and an interest in non-traditional art spaces. She has developed an ongoing contemplative walking practice that involves the creation of ephemeral, site specific sculptural works assemble...

Rebecca Zablocki is a New York born; Connecticut based interdisciplinary artist. She received her BFA from the Hartford Art School in 2014, and is currently pursuing an MFA in the Confluence MFA program, a low-residency interdisciplinary program dedicated to regenerative culture based at the University of New Mexico. She creates work about chronic illness, using fibers and found objects.