Proposition’s Biodiversity Fingerprint Residency artist talk and workshop | 4 Jun 2026
Attuning to Ecologies of Time convened artists, researchers and audiences to explore diverse experiences of time, ecology and place through talks, discussion and embodied listening practices.
About
The conclusion of Proposition’s recent artist residency brought together artists, researchers and audiences for an inspiring workshop, artist talks and lively discussion.
Mariia Korneeva shared her ideas around crib time - how disabled people experience time differently - and the influence of microseasons on her practice. Julian Udine reflected on marine biodiversity, drawing on extensive scuba diving and observations of synthetic contamination altering marine life, leading to her concept of chimeric ecologies. Jane Scobie explored deep listening to urban dawn choruses and the liminal, ‘claggy denes’ that exist between land and sea, bringing along her sculpture The Listener.
In collaboration with Central Saint Martins, UAL MA Art and Science.
Resident Artists
Julian Udine
Julian Udine’s practice explores human transformation and chimera-like ecologies, imagining ecology as a collective body where lifeforms mix, evolve, and blur the boundaries between themselves and the environment.
During the residency, her research focused on our tangled relationship with ecological systems, where contaminated environments are reframed not as sites of collapse, but as grounds for otherworldly and enduring life. Julian also revisited her extensive experience of scuba diving in the Philippines to devise a new artist format for her artist talk, reflecting on marine biodiversity and synthetic contamination altering marine life, exploring her concept of chimeric ecologies and an expanded notion of the human.
Julian has exhibited in London, Spain and Manila and was a finalist for the 2026 Clifford Chance Sculpture Award.
Mariia Korneeva
Mariia Korneeva feels time through the body as much as the environment. Born on Sakhalin Island and now based in London, Mariia Korneeva works at the intersection of art, science, and lived experience, informed by neurodivergence, disability, and ecological systems, and her experience of monocular vision. Her practice engages more-than-human bodies as interconnected flows of matter and energy, approaching the Earth as a shared, living structure.
During the residency, Mariia developed a small-scale participatory workshop offered to local disability communities and groups, inviting reflection on the idea of crip time as experienced by disabled people, where time can feel fluid, non-linear and shifting. The workshop connected bodily rhythms with seasonal change, discussing how climate disruption reshapes how time and environment are experienced.
Mariia has collaborated across art–science contexts in London and internationally, including laboratory-based and interdisciplinary research projects.
Jane Scobie
Jane Scobie’s practice is rooted in rural and coastal landscapes. Her work addresses biodiversity, extraction, and communication between species in the context of environmental change. Working across sculpture, sound, performance, and participatory practice, she considers how nature can act as a witness to climate breakdown and repair.
During the residency, Jane reconsidered her practice in light of Proposition’s urban location, and set herself a brief to reflect on what it means to be an environmental artist in the city. She conducted deep listening excursions and explored how environmental awareness emerges through everyday encounters with the built environment and the more-than-human systems within it. New work was developed in and around Proposition’s Bethnal Green studios, responding to the building, its surroundings and patterns of attention and interaction; recording dawn choruses on the building roof top, installing bird feeders on the facade and testing her sculptural and audio work ‘The Listener’ with passers-by at street level.
Jane’s recent practice includes residencies and commissions with Estuary Festival, Ground Work Gallery, Joya: arte + ecología, and Proforma.