Meandros

Meandros, a collective installation, Original Copy with Lucy Mayes, Catherine Morland, Marissa Stoffer, Sara Trillo and Zoe Hodgson. About Meandros (or a meander) is a decorative border made from a continuous line shaped into a repeated geometric motif, also known as a Greek Key Pattern, it could be seen as a linear labyrinth, a path without a beginning or end. Coleman Project Space is pleased to present Meandros a collective installation. The exhibition brings together new work developed by art collective Original Copy in the year following their 2025 performance for Gathering the Commons at St Stephen’s Chapel, West Norwood Cemetery. Since that event, the artists have continued to explore the cemetery site through drawings, time-based works and performance, expanding their research into its layered histories, ecological traces and recurring visual motifs. This new body of work responds to the site’s wider historical and material context, drawing on the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Victorian cemeteries of London, the city’s dissenters’ burial grounds, the recurring Meandros pattern found across many of the cemetery’s monuments, and the connections between ecology, memory, natural history and the non-human world. Presented at Coleman Project Space, the collective installation remaps the cemetery within the gallery, translating ongoing site research into a constellation of new works. In addition, Marissa Stoffer will collaborate on a new live performance, continuing a dialogue first developed through Original Copy’s 2025 project at St Stephen’s Chapel, West Norwood Cemetery. For the past 13 years Riccardo Carbone and John Strutton have worked collaboratively under the moniker 'Original Copy' creating both digital and analogue devices to translate visual material into sound, text and musical notation for live performances, video works, audio recordings and installations. Over the past several years they have collaborated with a number of artists to produce works that explore ideas of place, time, ritual, chance, mapping and the experience of fragmentation; both materially and cognitively. Catherine Morland is a London-based artist and gardener whose work bridges art and horticulture. She explores the use of plants and plant fibres through traditional techniques like basketry, weaving, cordage and knotting, focusing on the social and cultural significance of handmade crafts. Her practice emphasizes the ecological and historical value of processes once considered essential but later relegated to “craft”. Lucy Mayes is an artist, pigment maker and educator working in London and Portsmouth. Under the name ‘London Pigment’ she uses materials from urban waste streams to make recycled pigments for creative practitioners to use and communicate with. The creation of pigments from geographically specific materials is used to unearth hidden stories and foster connections between humans and nonhumans. Marissa Stoffer is a cross-disciplinary artist and educator whose practice explores ecology, plants, and humanity’s evolving relationships with the natural world. Rooted in slow craft and foraging, she creates natural dyes and pigments from plants collected on walks, combining scientific inquiry with botanical colour making. Her work spans textiles, painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance, often drawing on esoteric philosophy, myth and animism to explore trees as central figures of identity and connection. Sara Trillo explores landscapes through research, walking and making, seeking to uncover hidden histories of the human presence within our shared ecological environment. Her sculptural output ranges from small handheld tools to immersive installations deploying archaic making skills such as flint-napping and plant-dyeing processes. She also leads public walks which include performative sharing narratives about the mythologies of the sites explored. Zoe Hodgson is an artist whose work is embedded into the material language of printmaking and textiles. Her role as a technician, developing new methods of working with biomaterials and natural dyes, has informed her practice both technically and conceptually. The subjects of the works that have emerged from this material experimentation often occupy a space between archaeology and future landscapes where familiar technologies become obsolete artefacts and surfaces are etched with the buried contours of previous forms of habitation. Read more Toggle Film / Video Installation Performance / Live Art Audio / Sound Sculpture