Rosamund meets Goldsmiths art student

On 10th September 2025, Rosamund met with Goldsmiths art student, Megan Hack. Megan shared her final degree show work which was inspired by Rosamund and Ella. She has created natural dyes as well as dyes out of particulate matter from pollution, and used them to produce these large-scale toxic sublime paintings.

“Ecology has always been part of my practice, I’ve worked very closely with the land, using natural materials. It was just coming to London again when I started considering air pollution and that our environment isn’t just made up of natural things. You’ve got this element of toxicity.”

“To produce the dyes, I’ve been working closely with Epping Forest, in East London, right next to where I grew up, and I’ve been using oak specifically to make this really rich, dark pigment, and also other trees in the area like birch, hawthorn, and some chestnut.” 

“I’ve also been using particulate matter, which is the really fine particles in the air, that I’ve been collecting from non-porous surfaces and making pigment from that. So, you’ve got this interesting toxic and natural dye combination on the paintings.” 

“Making work about the atmosphere was interesting because it’s invisible and the pollution that happens in the air is a very slow violence; it’s not like one catastrophic event. So, trying to make work about something that is this invisible, toxic atmosphere is really, really, really hard.”