Jo-Anne Mc Allister

Jo-Anne Mc Allister uses foraged materials to create inks from post-industrial landscapes, using damaged or reclaimed materials, steel, waste, flora, and fauna. Creating soft ground etchings and prints that encourage conversations around feral nature to be found within the Terra Vague in these edgeland landscapes. Where life in our absence has the capacity to remediate and heal the wounds of the past, allowing us to rediscover who we want to be in these uncertain times.

Using site-specific flora she sources from post-industrial landscapes (bramble / oak / buddleia / teasel / bone / dogwood / pine), which are charred and processed into carbon black pigments to make inks in her studio for printing with steel and copper plates. Engaging with the ecological and industrial, past and present of the Welsh South Wales Coalfields and the remnants of the associated industries.