Lauren Pitson is a multi-disciplinary artist based in South Wales. Her practice and research are predominantly influenced by thoughts surrounding impermanence, ecology and the form. Her work often combines photography with alternative processes by collecting, deconstructing and reprocessing materials in order to document and explore these connection.

I Peel into Other Vessels explores the concept that everything is intertwined in a continuous network of regenesis. By investigating the idea that all human and non-human life are connected in an ecological entanglement.

The work seeks to combine bio and eco materials such as the incorporation and production of bacterial cellulose (SCOBY). The SCOBY is propagated, monitored, dried and rehydrated continuously to later be interwoven with images of specimens undergoing stages of decay. By embedding the specimens within a living organism with a continuous reproductive cycle, this acts as a reminder of intertwined networks and organisms perpetually replenishing each other.

Her work was recently showcased in The World Without Us, at Ffotogallery, Cardiff. An exhibition that focused closely on our relationship with the natural environment and the growing climate crisis.