Follow the Plants is transhistorical, inter and trans local project that situates artistic practices within and among creative lives of plants. Unfurling in different phases and formations Follow the Plants has become a long-term research enquiry for artists in the Food Art Research Network and other invited contributors in collaboration with Bioart Society.  Expanding  from an experimental exchange initiated by Madeleine Collie in 2023 and developed in dialogue with Yvonne Billimore the project offers a long term platform for entangled plant research from exchanges among artists, an experimental publication, a city wide research assembly and upcoming exhibition platforms.

The first phase of Follow the Plants in 2023-24 invited eighteen artists across Americas, Australia, Asia, Europe and South Africa to rethink cultural practices through collaborations with plants, as growing, decaying, and metamorphosing  collective beings that shape the places they inhabit. 

From 2024-26 Follow the Plants has continued through the development of an experimental publication, that expands artist correspondence, both with other artists and with plants that are central to their work.

Featuring over 40 contributors, the anthology brings together artists, scholars, and collectives who work with plants as collaborators, teachers, and political agents.