Practice resume

AFFILIATIONS & RECENT AWARDS

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.

‘Re-naturing Ritual: For the Love of a Field - Water’ (2020) The Environment Magazine of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).

‘Curating the Convivial for Soil Culture at Create’ (2015) by Miche Fabre Lewin, Clive Adams and Flora Gathorne-Hardy in Geohumanities: Space, Place and the Humanities Vol 1: 2.

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.

‘Towards ever more extended epistemologies: pluriversality and decolonisation of knowledges in participatory inquiry’ (2021) Handbook of Participatory Inquiry Burns, D., Howard, J. & Ospina, S. (eds.). This chapter is written by Dr Patricia Gaya and documents Miche’s doctoral research as an example of pioneering experiments in pluriversality and decolonisation.