Working to address the climate emergency through biodiversity projects: 1. removing paving slabs and tarmac and replacing them with wildflower meadows 2. convert existing lawns to meadows/edibles gardens.
Melina Merlin
Melina, born in San Francisco, and living in London since 2010, she is an interdisciplinary artist. Presently, she is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Art, (Hons), at Goldsmiths University of London. She is the 2021/2022 recipient of Goldsmith’s Bulgari Scholarship.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science/Public Health from Portland State University, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Golden Gate University, School of Law.
Melina exhibits and curates locally and internationally, with a focus in Newham and its artists. She is a contributing artist in Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss From East London, published 2018.
- Newham Unlocked Festival
- Newham Word Festival
- Stand-UP: LGBTQI Art Exhibition
- Montages: Forest Gate Community Gardens Drawn in Charcoal
- Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London
- Forest Gate Arts Trail
Hugh Barnard
Hugh studied chemistry at Imperial College then spent 40 years in computing. He has worked for the EU Commission, the EU Parliament and for various tech companies in France, Holland and Belgium. He has an MSc in computing from the Open University and recently finished a philosophy BA at Birkbeck.
Hugh stood for the Greens in Forest Gate South in the last set of local elections. Apart from this project, he is working on citizen science IoT, especially air pollution and ambient temperature, and (since about 1997) community currencies especially mutual social credit.