Sophie Taschner-Baldwin

Sophie Taschner-Baldwin is a multidisciplinary artist who dedicates her practice to the Earth; the entity that sustains all life despite ongoing harm. Through carefully considered materials, processes and practices, her work expresses reverence, care and gratitude for our planetary home.

Guided by themes such as ecopsychology, more-than-human kinship with the natural world and the entanglement of ecological and social crises, her practice seeks to make tangible the cultural and psychological forces that allow environmental degradation to persist in the Anthropocene.

Her installation A Tile a Day was created over three months, during which she made one handmade paper tile each day. The paper was created from discarded academic texts and essays accumulated throughout her final year, using rainwater she patiently collected. Each tile contains a unique pressed or steamed plant fragment, gathered with permission, a practice learned from a Greek herbalist, and softly backlit to reveal its intricate details and natural beauty.

Through this act of daily making, the 81 tiles offer a simple and accessible way of engaging with complex challenges: one step at a time. The work suggests that even the most overwhelming problems, whether personal or planetary, can be approached through small, consistent actions

As the tiles accumulated, they became a physical embodiment of commitment, illustrating the transformative potential of perseverance and care. By offering a repeatable method for initiating change, she hopes to empower individuals to begin where they are, with what they have and to trust that each step, however small, will contribute to something greater over time.

Through its intentionally ‘slow’ pace and methods, the work also challenges dominant systems that prioritise productivity, speed and extraction over care. Instead, it advocates for slower, more sustainable ways of being, ways that do not exhaust the maker, nor the Earth.

At its core, A Tile a Day is an offering of care, created in the hope that it might ease, inspire or support those who view it. By sharing personal insights gathered  over years of research, creative experimentation and reflection through the work, she hopes to contribute, however modestly, to both collective and planetary healing.

Sophie’s work invites reflection on our relationship with the Earth and questions the unsustainable values shaping contemporary life. Instead, it seeks to embody and encourage more caring, collaborative and reciprocal ways of living in the Anthropocene.