Thea is an improvising cook and artist from Paisley. She takes to Cafe OTO’s stove most days, devising seasonal, affordable dishes using locally grown, organic produce with next to no food waste. She takes culinary inspiration from her time working with cooks from all over the world at Migrateful’s Cookery School.
She is interested in combining cooking with art and uses vegetables and plant matter to make inks, paint, dyes, print emulsions and plant-based photographic developers to make images with. Her current photographic project focuses on the sensory experience of cooking, eating and preparing food, highlighting the surreal, bodily textures, shapes and colours of vegetables, alongside visceral writing and recipes.
She graduated in music from Clare College Cambridge in 2019 and has performed at The Horse Hospital and Avalon Cafe. She collects field recordings of natural resonances, strange anecdotes, snippets of classical music, church bells and sacred places and keeps lists of bizarre phrases which inform her own improvisations on tape.
She contributes recipes to Infant Tree’s regular newsletter and keeps a personal website of images and writing.
