Sonic Landscapes: Dr Neelambari Phalkey Workshop in Holland Park

Artist Run Nature Workshops

These workshops are organised by photographic artist Alan McFetridge, Daisy Green’s artist-in-residence at Holland Park. Each month, Alan invites a guest artist or scholar to lead a workshop that brings their practice into dialogue with the park, its rhythms, and its living landscape.

This month’s guest artist is Neelambari Phalkey

How does the park "look" when we stop using our eyes and start using our ears? In this research-led workshop, Neelambari Phalkey guides participants through a synthetic process of translating sound into painting.

Moving beyond traditional landscape representation, we will use "Deep Listening" as a tool to map the hidden rhythms of Holland Park.

Participants will develop a personalised "vocabulary of marks" to capture live acoustic data from the high-frequency twittering of birds to the low-frequency drone of the urban environment creating layered abstract maps using oil pastels and charcoal.