Power of art and ritual for enlivening everyday justice practices
for living in freedom kinship with each other and animate Earth

I, Miche, am a White woman, philosopher-artist, thinker-maker, researcher-writer born on African soil in colonial Zimbabwe, with French and Jewish heritage. I am based in UK.  

My ritual & material invocations express and enliven our embodied, entangled & ensouled nature-cultural relationships with sentient Earth. Nurtured by Indigenous & esoteric teachings my liberatory praxis cultivates a politics of consciousness.

This embraces a daily dedication to collective liberation through unravelling my own racialised ‘white' bodied supremacy as a heartful contribution to ending racism.  A passionate faith in humanity & the Earth's wisdom is my ethical compass for freedom kinships.

With over three decades of experience as a practitioner working with therapeutic, liberatory and earth-centred ritual I have a passionate faith in our collaborative, human capacity for deep transformation and collective liberation.

My vocation is nourished and guided by alliances with OBI (Othering and Belonging Institute); and Somatic Abolitionism training with US based ERE (Education for Racial Equity); and online workshops with White Awake.

Soil and Psyche collaboration with Theo Oldjohn
Diversity facilitator, Sustainability Institute
SOUTH AFRICA

Ritual with red thread with agroecology students
Voicing our connections with the living soil

Studio Fabre Hardy is the collaborative arts and research practice of Miche Fabre Lewin and Flora Gathorne-Hardy. Life comes into being and balance through making-with each other and the multi sentient living Earth. We embrace art and ritual as everyday practices of remembering and enlivening our entangled kinship with each other and the matter of life.

Our love-labours are dedicated to restoring living justice. We attune with the genius of people, the spirit of place and the matter and living processes of our natureculture habitats. This body of work encompasses food, soil and land rituals, studio arts and material works, poetics and writing, photomedia, film, installation, sound and performance.

We are drawn to work amidst diverse creative, pedagogical and research communities to re-enculture the arts as a way of knowing and thinking-feelingly. Enlivening art and ritual as a praxis of conviviality, we evolve sympoiethics as a word to evoke this radical ecology of care in the everyday.

“Your work is an expression of radical nurturing and connection made real through a flow of the tactile and the spiritual, woven with making, curating, performance and ritual. No matter the context, your artistic responses offer a new ethical consciousness through human exchange.”

Andy Robinson, Head of Strategy at FutureCity

  • Intuitive Farming

    In January 2023, we are contributing to a panel discussion on intuitive farming hosted by Dr Julia Wright at the Oxford Real Farming Conference.

  • TEDx Soweto talk

    Miche’s TEDx Soweto Talk ‘Cooking, Culture and Conversations’ emerged as part of Eat From the Earth pavement banquet co-created with the JHB Culinary School, Johannesburg.

  • Arts Council Award

    In September 2022 Miche was awarded Arts Council of England funding to continue developing her creative practice encompassing Presence of Food.

  • Art of Sympoiethics

    July 2022 marks the publication of ‘Art of Sympoiethics’ in the Ecological Citizen. The article celebrates being human as a continuum of reciprocal exchanges between ourselves, each other, and the matter and habitats of the animate Earth.

  • Art of Food Rituals

    We are honoured to have contributed a chapter on the art of food rituals to ‘Subtle Agroecologies: farming with the hidden half of nature’ edited by Julia Wright.

  • Hands In Soil

    Gratitude to Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and her team for inviting us to contribute our image-text work Hands In Soil to Ecological Belongings research collaboration.

  • Rituals of Reconnection

    Gratitude to the Institute for Equity, Sustainability and Resilience at Coventry University for resourcing Miche’s doctoral research into the transformative power of ecological food rituals and the evolution of the concept of sympoiethics.