Sonic Plants – Sonic People
FRIDAY 27 June 8pm
Join us for Sonic Plants - Sonic People, a unique sound journey that brings together people and plants in a multi-sensory installation led by the artist, Ruth Canning.
Using sounds created by data derived from a live plant, this immersive sound journey invites artists and musicians to respond to the novel sounds with their voices, instruments, and movements.
Attendees will be free to move around the space and also to respond to the plants along with these artists. The event will take place against the backdrop of the photography exhibition by Chelsey Browne, Nightshadows, featuring her images of “small flowers and weeds defying the odds in unexpected places”.
Participating artists include:
Carol Grimes
Elly Rutherford
Simon Lambert
and others
About Ruth Canning:
Ruth Canning is a multi-media artist based in Folkestone. She studied at Central
Saint Martin’s in London, graduating with an MA in Fine Art. Her practice ranges
across installation, sound, photography and printing. Site and context are important in her work. She favours working outside traditional gallery spaces and works to produce an audience experience which connects directly with her processes.
Canning’s practice has focused recently on sound and particularly on developing sound pieces using electrical signals from plants. Recent projects include The Plant Symphony played in a plant store and composed with data taken from several plants on display. At her Open Studio event in 2024, visitors interacted with plants while listening to their sounds and directly experienced changes to plants’ sounds in response.
She has contributed a soundscape to accompany Chelsey Browne’s current photography exhibition at Kollectiv May 31 st – June 29 th 2025.
FRIDAY 27 June 8pm
Join us for Sonic Plants - Sonic People, a unique sound journey that brings together people and plants in a multi-sensory installation led by the artist, Ruth Canning.
Using sounds created by data derived from a live plant, this immersive sound journey invites artists and musicians to respond to the novel sounds with their voices, instruments, and movements.
Attendees will be free to move around the space and also to respond to the plants along with these artists. The event will take place against the backdrop of the photography exhibition by Chelsey Browne, Nightshadows, featuring her images of “small flowers and weeds defying the odds in unexpected places”.
Participating artists include:
Carol Grimes
Elly Rutherford
Simon Lambert
and others
About Ruth Canning:
Ruth Canning is a multi-media artist based in Folkestone. She studied at Central
Saint Martin’s in London, graduating with an MA in Fine Art. Her practice ranges
across installation, sound, photography and printing. Site and context are important in her work. She favours working outside traditional gallery spaces and works to produce an audience experience which connects directly with her processes.
Canning’s practice has focused recently on sound and particularly on developing sound pieces using electrical signals from plants. Recent projects include The Plant Symphony played in a plant store and composed with data taken from several plants on display. At her Open Studio event in 2024, visitors interacted with plants while listening to their sounds and directly experienced changes to plants’ sounds in response.
She has contributed a soundscape to accompany Chelsey Browne’s current photography exhibition at Kollectiv May 31 st – June 29 th 2025.
FRIDAY 27 June 8pm
Join us for Sonic Plants - Sonic People, a unique sound journey that brings together people and plants in a multi-sensory installation led by the artist, Ruth Canning.
Using sounds created by data derived from a live plant, this immersive sound journey invites artists and musicians to respond to the novel sounds with their voices, instruments, and movements.
Attendees will be free to move around the space and also to respond to the plants along with these artists. The event will take place against the backdrop of the photography exhibition by Chelsey Browne, Nightshadows, featuring her images of “small flowers and weeds defying the odds in unexpected places”.
Participating artists include:
Carol Grimes
Elly Rutherford
Simon Lambert
and others
About Ruth Canning:
Ruth Canning is a multi-media artist based in Folkestone. She studied at Central
Saint Martin’s in London, graduating with an MA in Fine Art. Her practice ranges
across installation, sound, photography and printing. Site and context are important in her work. She favours working outside traditional gallery spaces and works to produce an audience experience which connects directly with her processes.
Canning’s practice has focused recently on sound and particularly on developing sound pieces using electrical signals from plants. Recent projects include The Plant Symphony played in a plant store and composed with data taken from several plants on display. At her Open Studio event in 2024, visitors interacted with plants while listening to their sounds and directly experienced changes to plants’ sounds in response.
She has contributed a soundscape to accompany Chelsey Browne’s current photography exhibition at Kollectiv May 31 st – June 29 th 2025.