Biography
Iolo Adams (b.2000, UK, raised Aotearoa) is a second year MFA Fine Art candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. Adams completed a BDes in photography at Massey University in Wellington in 2022, and has since gone on to develop an interdisciplinary practice including sculpture, photography, and textiles. Adams merges disciplines intuitively to resist anthropocentric binaries that centralise human perspectives concerning ecological intelligence and autonomy. His methodology lets in serendipitous agency from organic processes, where mycological intelligence coexists with modern computing, primeval flora meets extractivist industry, and human/ nonhuman entities and systems are entangled. Moving beyond natural romanticism, Adams’ work develops a flattened ontology between human and nonhuman entities and networks. He experiments with intuitive, collaborative processes that decentralise human agency in the creative process and allow space for the serendipity of planetary processes. Such processes, where human intuition, biological alchemy, and digital order entangle, unveil emergent properties in the creative process between various modes of being.