Futures Entwined, 2024 by Joy Gregory

Joy Gregory’s new limited-edition artwork, Futures Entwined, accompanies her large-scale commission at Heathrow Terminal 4 Underground station, A Taste of Home.

A Taste of Home expands on Gregory’s interest in themes of migration, memory and plant knowledge and was developed in dialogue with asylum seekers living in temporary accommodation near Heathrow airport. The artwork is installed on a series of twenty-four billboards and brings together excerpts of a poem from the Poetry Translation Centre by Khaled Abdallah, ‘Seeds in Flight’, and Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home’. These poetic fragments sit alongside ingredients which were discussed as ‘tastes of home’ during a series of photographic workshops Gregory facilitated in the temporary accommodation, and are collaged over botanical artworks Gregory created using techniques such as cyanotype and monotype printing. 

Gregory’s edition for Art on The Underground, titled Futures Entwined, 2024 takes one of the artist's monotypes as a starting point. Printed as a photopolymer gravure etching, the outline of a plant form is pressed into the paper surface.

About this product:

Size: 42 x 32.5 cm 

Photopolymer gravure etching with emboss on 250gsm Somerset Velvet Antique.

Edition of 30, signed and numbered (unframed)

Printed by Simon Lawson Prints