Featuring multimedia art by Alex Hirtzel, an international artist who has dedicated her work to the incredible world of pollinators. Her work fuses classical painting methods with augmented reality and combines references from scientific research, historical artworks, and her own unique paintings.

Alex’s recent work, which was first shown last summer at the University of Bristol Botanic Gardens, uses novel techniques to create a narrative of pollinators today. As a Pollinating London Together Ambassador, she is now bringing her work to the City of London. This is a unique opportunity to celebrate the joy and complexity of pollinators in artistic form, learn about recent research into the different sensory modalities that are used by pollinators to interact with flowering plants, and to join the conversation about how we can improve pollinator habitats and the future of pollinators in the City of London through PLT activities.

Lily Hunter Green is an installation artist and composer. She has extensive experience making multi-component immersive works based on pollinators and the science of the hive under the banner of BEE COMPOSED: an interdisciplinary more-than-human ‘hive’ project that uses digital media, music and performance to communicate rapidly changing ecologies, and humans’ role in that process. An Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck College (London) and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Cambridge, Lily’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Please note exhibition paintings on view will be available for sale. A portion of the sales proceeds will be kindly donated by Alex Hirtzel to Pollinating London Together.

No booking is required and there is no charge for this event, however donations to support Pollinating London Together are welcome: click here to make a one-off donation. Pollinating London Together is a project part-funded and governed by the Wax Chandlers Charitable Trust: Charity Registration Number 278164.