rosa thorlby
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Have a look at some of my recent work below :)
Facilitating a workshop with Radical Rhizomes for QTIPOC creatives called “Meeting Our Plant-Kin: A Radical Introduction to the Ecology of the South Downs”.
Rooted in healing justice and queer ecology, the workshop explored what it could mean to be in alliance with the more-than-human world as a marginalised community.
Chalk grassland is a rare and intricate ecosystem, and can be home to more than 40 species in a single square metre. Click to see the mini pocket guide I wrote and illustrated.
The Spoon Fairies on Strike! A risograph printed zine.
I have imagined that spoons, as in Spoon Theory, are grown by Spoon Fairies in their spoon gardens. The Spoon Fairies are fed up of trying to live up to capitalist ableist expectations and demands, and have decided to go on strike.
They have published a zine to help organise and educate ahead of the strike and is available to buy here.
Poster commissioned by Abolitionist Futures, Leeds University (2023)
Page from an unpublished picturebook ‘Tell Me an Oak Tree’
Here Lies Newt: A Celebration of the Lives and Limbs of a Great Crested Newt (click to visit)The Garden (papercut)Page from an unpublished picturebook ‘Tell Me an Oak Tree’
A revolutionary device enabling earthworms to articulate and print their own political manifesto.
Not On Our Doorsteps! An Anti-Raids Organising Zine
Illustrated map commissioned by London College of Fashion for the exhibition ‘Making More Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain’ in collaboration with the Museum of British Folklore (2024) (click to view).