ABOUT

Topobiograpy

A White woman, born on Zimbabwean soil, Miche Fabre Lewin has French and Jewish heritage. Her devotional vocation is rooted in a passion for art, ecology, food, and liberatory processes.  As an artist-of-the-becoming, Miche’s body of work embodies a profound re-membering of ‘rta’, the Sanskrit root of art, artisan and ritual.  This concept evokes how our humanness is in continuous evolution within a participatory and wholly interdependent cosmos. These interwoven threads manifest through her co-creating with sentience of matter, living processes, recycled and found materials – all in respect of the genius of place and people. Through her pioneering work as part of her doctoral research with Coventry University she has contributed the concept of ‘sympoiethics’ as a life-affirming ethos and practice of making-with our animate world.

Exhibitions, Commission, Collaborations span Europe and Southern Africa 

Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts | Bag Factory Johannesburg | Biodynamic Association | Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World | Centre for Future Thinking | Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience | Ecovention Europe | FutureCity | GUS Gallery Hauser & Wirth | NIROX Foundation | Art House & Lookout Tower | Life Collection | Home LiveArt | Platform London | Royal Geographic Society | Spier Farm | Sustainability Institute | Stellenbosch University Museum| Triodos | Venice Biennale Collateral

Selection of Collaborative Writings & Films with Flora Gathorne-Hardy

  • Art of Sympoiethics in the Ecological Citizen explores our collaborative arts practice as rooted in an ecocentric worldview, in which existence is a continuum of relational and embodied exchanges between ourselves, each other, and the matter and habitats of the animate Earth.

  • Cooking, Culture and Conversations

  • Curated by Bronwyn Lace and the Centre for the Less Good Idea, this one minute film Tending emerges from our project For the Love of a Field.

  • We are honoured to be contributing our book chapter to this visionary book Subtle Agroecologies: farming with the hidden half of nature edited by Julia Wright.

  • This article in The Learned Pig explores how natureculture worldmaking can encourage an everyday ethics of healing and care.