Jemma Foster is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and creative director. Her work researches human and more-than human imagination, at the intersection of ecology, technology and ritual.

Rooted in the healing arts, her practice merges digital technologies and sound recording with ancient technologies of alchemy, sacred geometry and geomancy. These modalities are approached as ways of sensing with, and responding to, landscape and living systems by cultivating attention through deep listening, relationship through reciprocity, and an ecology of care through acts of tending.

Artworks include bio-therapeutic soundscapes, divinatory systems, sculptural land art, immersive installations and threshold rituals of encounter for interspecies communication. Actively advocating for the agency and rights of plants and all living systems, she has spoken before leaders and policy makers for systems change, and her work has been exhibited and performed internationally including Somerset House, Barbican, ICA London and the UN Conference of Parties. 

Jemma is the founder and director of creative consultancy, experience design studio and mixed-media publishing house Wild Alchemy Lab. She is half of artist duo Semantica, whose practice incorporates sound, film, generative art and sculptural works to examine ways of sensing and co-creating with more-than-human worlds.  In 2023, they were awarded a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica, in the category for Digital Musics and Sound Art, for their collaborative project A Tale of Two Seeds.

Receiving an ACE grant for Vibrant Matter: Sonic Sculptures, Jemma is currently researching the resonant and paramagnetic properties of stone for soil regeneration.

Published works include Sacred Geometry (Octopus, 2020), Wild Alchemy Lab: An Astro-botanical Remedy Deck (Laurence King, 2023), Wild Alchemy: An Astro-Botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants (Laurence King, 2024).

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