Artist Research Associates with the Institute for Sustainability, Equity and Resilience (ISER), Coventry University, UK Artist Research Associates with the Sustainability Institute, Lynedoch, South Africa Research Associates with the Centre for Future Thinking, Hawkwood College, UK
2022 - Arts Council England award for Miche to develop her creative practice with food rituals, sonic improvisation and visual inquiry 2019 - Miche awarded PhD by Coventry University for her practice-based thesis Artful Bodymind: Enlivening Transformative Research Methodologies and film Art of the Everyday 2015 - Doctoral Scholarship for Miche to research her practice with food rituals, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University 2015 - Special Commendation for the CIWEM/CCANW Nick Reeves AWEinspiring Award for Arts, Water and the Environment 2015 - Eco-Dry award, European Commission for Miche and Flora to enhance understanding and share knowledge on agroecological futures in Southern Africa
SELECTION OF RECENT RESIDENCIES 2021 - Hommage to Beuys at Aldeburgh Beach Lookout 2020-Miche begins on-going Gastrosophical Residency as part of Place-Based Creativity exchange with Aldeburgh Beach Lookout 2019 - Life of Water residency and exhibition as part of Alive in the Universe, Venice Biennale Collaterale 2018 - Life of Water residency, Aldeburgh Beach Lookout 2017/18 - Artists in Residence, Centre for Future Thinking, Hawkwood, UK 2016/2017 - Living Cultures research residency, Sustainability Institute, Lyndoche, South Africa 2016 - Returning to Source residency, Aerial Studios, Johannesburg 2016 - PULSE residency, Stellenbosch University 2015 - Blue Soil Shrine, CCANW Soil Culture Residency, Bristol, UK 2014 - Book of Nature research residency with FutureCity for Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, 2014 -Soil Silica Soul Residency with Biodynamic Association, UK 2013 - Living Soil Shrine residency at the Living Soil Forum, Ytterjarna, Sweden 2012 - Life Collection residency at Main Street Life, Maboneng 2012 - Re-Birth residency at NIROX Foundation, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa 2012 - Re-Naturing the City residency with the Bag Factory, Johannesburg
SELECTION OF RECENT PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, CURATIONS & EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Revive happening with Daphne Lambert, Greencuisine Trust 2021 - Continuum Residency Exhibition with Bill Jackson, Shaun Caton and Tim Sawyer Shepard 2021 - Kitchen Culture Meets Agriculture Convivial Forum to honour World Food Day 2020 - Cooking with the Artful Bodymind presentation with Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University 2020 - Intimate Taste of Time ritual and presentation as part of Time and Timelessness Conference, Aldeburgh 2021 - Peace Power pilgrimage, ritual performance and Conversation Circle, Aldeburgh Beach Lookout and Timberyard in partnership with Art and Reconciliation research group, King’s College, London 2018 - Poetics of Ritual workshop with Crossfields International, Emerson College, UK 2020 - Art of Collaboration seminar with Centre for Sustainable Transitions, Stellenbosch University 2017 - Everything is Here installation as part of Ecovention Europe exhibition, Sittard, Belgium 2017 - Taking the Pulse presentation and participatory installation at Leadership, Ethics and Working with Unknowing: an international conference, UWE Bristol, UK 2017 - Agroecology Indaba at the Sustainability Institute, Lynedoch Valley, South Africa 2016 - Living Cultures doctoral Research Residency with the Sustainability Institute, Lynedoch Valley, South Africa 2016 - First Know Food doctoral research collaboration with the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) and the Stockholm Institute, Stellenbosch University 2016 - Artful Inquiry workshop lead by Miche Fabre Lewin for doctorate students in Organisational Change, Ashridge College, UK 2015 - Presentation of Soil Saturday Film at Why Soil Matters International Conference, European Parliament, Brussels 2015 - Presentation of participatory workshop at Landscaping Change, Bristol, UK 2015 - Soil Saturdays, Co-curators with CCANW for UN International Year of the Soil, Bristol, UK 2015 - Collaborative Design Laboratory, CAWR, Coventry University, UK 2014 - In the Body of Food course programme with Masters in Narrative Leadership, Central St Martins College 2014 - Seeds to Live By: food freedom beyond GM, convivial food happening, Hawkwood College, UK 2014 - Tasting Knowledging participatory installation at Research in Early Childhood Education and Social Pedagogy, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Germany 2013 - Food Land and Healing course, Hawkwood College, UK 2013 - Renaturing the City Forum for Inspiration, Garden Organic, UK 2013 - Renaturing the City Forum for Inspiration, Platform London, UK 2012 - Cooking, Culture and Conversations, Miche Fabre Lewin's TED Soweto talk 2012 - Hands in Soil workshop and performancs with Kofifi Theatre Company and Trevor Huddleston Memorial Centre, Sophiatown, South Africa 2012 - Food of the Land Artist Residency, at Emergence Conference: Art & Sustainability, Centre for Alternative Technology, UK 2012 - TasteGarden installation with the Biodynamic Association at Embercombe Centre, UK 2012 - (dis)locations: (trans)formations exhibition at the Bag Factory, Johannesburg
SELECTION OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Artful Bodymind: Enlivening Transformative Research Methodologies (2019) Miche Fabre Lewin’s practice-based doctorate Artful Bodymind with the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University.
‘The Art of Sympoiethics’ (2022) The Ecological Citizen in which we introduce sympoiethics as a participatory consciousness which guides our interactions with soil care, food cultures, thanks-giving rituals and regenerative farming. ‘The Art of Food Rituals as a Practice in Sympoiethics’ within Subtle Agroecologies: Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature edited by Wright, J. (2021).
Sympoiethics: For the Love of a Field (2021) The Ecological Citizen introduces our durational project For the Love of a Field and how a Sympoiethic orientation is guiding its transformation towards every greater natural-cultural diversity.
Artful Science and Scienceful Art (2020) The Environment Magazine of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). This article documents the Forum of Inspiration hosted by Touchstones Earth with the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) the Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience (CAWR), and the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW), which is co-founder with CIWEM of the Arts and Environment Network.
Soil Culture (2016) by Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World includes details of our Soil Saturdays exhibition programme and Blue Soil Shrine residency in Bristol during UN International Year of Soils.