Action and Tension I, II and III
installation
2025

at
a lake created by sand excavation,
Sijele, Belgium

activated by
play with fellow artist,
dragonflies, swimmers and wind

part of Meer Meer
artist-run art school

Power struggles on Spaceship Earth
installation
2025

dimension varies, 2.5m x 0.35m x 0.5m approx.
(beam is 242 x 13 x 6 cm)

a beam of wood warped by the rain
and marred by a march of a fire,
on a bundle of broken structures,
rattling of iron pallets from pyrite processing.

at
a post-industrial landscape
Barreiro, Portugal

activated by
see-saw actions, bonus if the beam breaks

part of PADA49
artist residency

Activating “Power struggles on Spaceship Earth” at the private view:

Nest
site-sensitive installation
2025

1.2m x 0.7m x 0.7 m approx.

un-wasted wood

at
a post-industrial landscape
Barreiro, Portugal

activated by
wind and non-human beings:
take shelter, put down roots, infest and decompose

part of PADA49
artist residency

The word for world is forest, borrowing LeGuin’s words
installation
2025

dimension varies, 3m x 3m x 1.6m approx.

branches brought by the wind,
scavenged waste, found materials/objects

at
a post-industrial landscape
Barreiro, Portugal

activated as
a meditative space or community space,
take a pillow and blanket, go inside the circle

part of PADA49
artist residency

part of AGA Lab
artist residency

a body of collograph-installation tailor-made to fit
collected plastic packagings,
using waste materials
generated from grocery activties
for image making.

left to right on the photo:

Goedmorgan
Nature is green.
Four seasons
The Scream
Aliens (a series)

framed in found plastic packagings and used canvas frames,
unused waste materials were organised and passed on at the end of residency

The first series of “Aliens” collographs
Installation
2023

dimention varies,
each print is the size of cold-cut packaging trays in the Netherlands

at De Bowuput,
Sloterdijk, the Netherlands

part of
AGA Lab residency

* Tea Bag Aliens has many more editions/series and now have their own instagram handle in 2025.

Navigating winter

Installation / Durational Performance

1.2 x 1.5m approx.

activated by
decomposition by insect, fungi and weather over-winter
on a raised vegetable bed

Dog’s Mercury’s Manuscript I - on toxicity
Object

both part of
R-Urban Poplar residency

Storm-brought cosy
Installation
2025

dimension varies,
nest is approx. 1 x 1 x 0.3 m

branches fell by storm,
soil and
a short prose: “the wind tucked the soil in”

activated by
reading the short prose, and then putting it back

Artist Statement
Stephanie Pau
@whereisfuture

Stephanie Pau is a transdisciplinary artist working with tomato plants, wildflowers and reclaimed materials (mainly wood, paper and plastic) to gently queering dominant constructs in urban ecologies and practice repair and reclamation towards more-than-human care and belonging. She usually works in the medium of printmaking, installations and durational performances. Art-making as a process of holding spaces for entangling, un-/re-learning ways to be part of nature in urban landscapes, which entails re-examining narratives of production and consumption.

Tomato Plants et al is an artist collective - one human (Stephanie Pau), tomato plants and urban waste materials, meandering towards more-than-human care and belonging.

Education

Royal College of Art
MRes Healthcare and Design
2017-2019

World-taught printmaker and artist
2006-present

Residencies

2025
August
Meer Meer Residency
Sijele, Belgium

>> A pop-up artist-run art school, with exhibitions on a lake created by sand quarrying activities.
Read more.

2025
Feb-May
R-Urban Poplar
London, UK

>> Situated in an eco-civic hub/community garden in late winter/early spring, research and and share practices through green skills workshops and open studios.
Read more.

2025
Jan
PADA Studios
Barreiro, Portugal

>> Situated in a post-industrial compound - some of it remained as contaminated land, culminating in four site-sensitive, interactive installations, a final group show and open studios.
Read more.

2023
Nov
AGA Lab
Amsterdam, Netherlands

>> Situated in an experimental printmaking facility, surrendered myself to local waste materials and experimented with eco-conscious printmaking techniques, culminating in a final group show.
Read more.

Publications
(zines/artist book)

Plastics, the conditions we live.
A4, 28 pages, front to back
1st Edition, 2024

things, Alien SSS --- DO.
6 x 7 cm, 18 pages
1st Edition, 2024

Reclaimation -
methods for joining and repairability
A6, 8 page - including covers.
1st Edition, 2022

Waste | Materials
A6, 8 page - including covers.
2nd Edition, 2022

Index of Installations+

Unreadymade filter(s)
Installation

A growing collection of pigment filters, un-readymade from readymade teabags.

Part of the journey on petroleum-free printmaking and un-readymades.

2024 onwards

A paper press that fixed the table
Installation (ephemeral)

0.3 x 1 x 1.5 m approx
Spare bricks, paper pulp, balanced wood and a patch for a snapped table.

2025

Power struggles on Spaceship Earth
Installation

2.5m x 0.35m x 0.5m approx.
A beam of wood warped by the rain
and marred by a march of a fire,
on a bundle of broken structures,
busy’d by the rattling of iron pallets from pyrite processing.

Activated by see-saw actions. Bonus if the beam breaks.

2025

Unstable Table
Installation

118 x 90 x 70cm
Glue-free! Screw-free! Installation view at the artist’s studio.

Part of the journey on un-readymades.

2022

Healing from Trauma
Sculpture

20 x 20 x 48 cm approx.
Un-wasted wood, a trace of metal and the oak’s reaction to trauma (blue stains).

Part of the journey on un-readymades.

2023

Paper pulp was here.
Installation

Dimension varies,
88 x 100 cm approx. for the fabric
Natural pigment left by a paper pulp, cotton fabric, synthetic washing line and wooden peg.

Part of the journey on un-readymades.

2023

Sustainability Bonsai
Sculpture

20 x 35 x 33 cm approx.
Reclaimed plastic packaging, green-wash, reclaimed scaffolding boards and fallen twigs.

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Nature is green.
Collograph on magnani 300gsm archival paper

Framed (in found plastic bag): 22x12 cm approx
Unframed: 17.7x10.5 cm
Edition of 6

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Nature is green.
Collograph on magnani 300gsm archival paper

Framed (in used packaging): 22x12 cm approx
Unframed: 17.7x10.5 cm
A version using gifferent plastic bag options for framing.
Edition of 6

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Decay
An assemblage

80 x 130 cm approx
Ink, pages from an art catalogue from 1999, used scaffolding board and new dowel. Decay is a complex image - a collage of a portrait of a decaying tomato plant, framed in an eclectic but not accidental collection of warped and neat wood.

Part of the journey of attuning with tomato plants.

2023

Four Seasons
Installation

Dimension varies,
each collograph is 9.2 x 6cm
Four original collographs made from reclaimed packaging materials, secured in unused plastic bags.

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Goedmorgan (2023)
Collograph-Installation

Dimension varies,
the collograph in one piece is 49.5 x 35.5 cm
An original collograph ripped up and framed in used plastic bags and a found canvas stretcher.
Edition of 4 (untorn).

Activated by getting framed in used plastic bags, rip the collograph to fit your collection of bags.

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Index of Collographs

The Scream
Collograph

Dimention varies,
approx. 20 x 27 cm including the hook
Original collograph made from reclaimed packaging materials, framed by found plastic hook.

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Alien’s’ Story II
Collograph
on 400gsm archival paper

20 x 20cm (unframed)
Edition of 25, animated edition (each is a key frame of a stop motion)

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2024

Aliens °°°°° ‘
Collograph

Chine colle of used teabag
on van beek 310gsm acid-free paper
Each work is unique in this ongoing series.
SOLD

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Aliens °
Collograph

Chine colle of used teabag
on van beek 310gsm acid-free paper
Each work is unique in this ongoing series.
SOLD

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Aliens °°° ‘
Collograph

12.5 x 18 cm
Chine colle of used teabag
on van beek 310gsm acid-free paper
Each work is unique in this ongoing series.

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Aliens °°°
Collograph

12.5 x 18 cm
Chine colle of used teabag
on van beek 310gsm acid-free paper
Each work is unique in this ongoing series.

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Aliens °°
Collograph

14 x 19.5 cm
Chine colle of used teabag
on van beek 310gsm acid-free paper
Each work is unique in this ongoing series.

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Aliens °°°°°
Collograph

14.5 x 16.5 cm
Chine colle of used teabag
on van beek 310gsm acid-free paper
Each work is unique in this ongoing series.

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Aliens °°°°°°°°
Collograph

Chine colle of used teabag
on van beek 310gsm acid-free paper
Each work is unique in this ongoing series.
SOLD

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

Aliens °°°°°°°°°°°
Collograph

Chine colle of used teabag
on van beek 310gsm acid-free paper
Each work is unique in this ongoing series.
SOLD

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2023

PIG-E-ON --
Collograph on Somerset white satin 300gsm paper (Acid-Free)

28.5 x 20.8 cm (unframed)
Part of the Portrait of Assemblage Creatures series
Edition size: 5, variable edition

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2022

The De-Busy'd ,
Collograph on Sommerset offwhite textured 300gsm paper

76 x 56 cm (unframed)
101.7 x 85(framed, reclaimed ex-photography exhibition frame)
Part of the Portrait of Assemblage Creatures series
Edition size: 3, variable edition

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2022

Curiouser ~
Collograph
on Sommerset offwhite textured 300gsm paper

76 x 56 cm (unframed)
79.5 x 61 cm (framed, in reclaimed furniture offcuts, sapele and larch - hardwood)
Part of the Portrait of Assemblage Creatures series
Edition of 2, variable edition

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2022

Rituals Manager %
Collograph
on Sommerset offwhite textured 300gsm paper

76 x 56 (unframed)
79.5 x 60.2 (framed, in reclaimed mouldings, beech)
Part of the Portrait of Assemblage Creatures series
Edition of 2, variable edition

Part of the journey of hearing plastic out.

2022

Untitled
Collograph

19.5 x 14 cm
Chine colle of artist-made paper on acid-free paper.

Part of the journey of petroleum-free making.

2023

An Encounter
Collograph

17.5 x 11 cm
Chine colle of artist-made paper, professional produced cotton paper on acid-free paper.

Part of the journey of petroleum-free making.

2023

Untitled
Collograph

14.5 x 17.5 cm

Part of the journey of attuning with tomato plants.

2023

Untitled
Collograph

10.5 x 15 cm

Part of the journey of attuning with tomato plants.

2023

Untitled
Drypoint

16 x 15.5 cm
Small-sized drypoint original prints, on tetrapak - used drink carton. Chine colle on Fabiano 250gsm acid-free paper.

Part of the journey of attuning with tomato plants.

2023

Untitled
Drypoint

20 x 24 cm
Small-sized drypoint original prints, on tetrapak - used drink carton. Chine colle on Fabiano 250gsm acid-free paper.

Part of the journey of attuning with tomato plants.

2023

Untitled (sol searching)
Drypoint

Small-sized drypoint original prints, on tetrapak - used drink carton. Paying attention to tomato plant’s gestures in 2021.

Part of the journey of attuning with tomato plants.

2021

Untitled (sol searching)
Drypoint

Various small-sized drypoint original prints, on tetrapak - used drink carton. Paying attention to tomato plant’s gestures in 2021.

Part of the journey of attuning with tomato plants.

2021

Untitled
Collograph

13 x 26 cm
Chine colle of non-acid-free paper on Fabiano 250gsm acid-free paper.

Part of the journey of hearing plastics out.

2023

Fabrications
Collograph

15 x 15.5 cm
Chine colle of non-acid-free coloured paper on Khadi paper. Yellowing gaurenteed.

Part of the journey of hearing plastics out.

2023

Index of Zines

Waste | Materials

A visual essay sharing an experimental practice of care through working with unwanted plastic wastes from the everyday + includes a unique offcut of artwork.

Small batch risograph zine
2nd Edition, 2022
A6, 8 page - including covers.

Soy/rice-barn based ink printed on end-of-line paper.

Plastics,
the conditions we live.

A collection of images, drawings, poems and writings about plastic packaging beyond glorification and demonisation. A critical reflection from working with waste plastics as materials since 2021.

Handmade zine
1st Edition, 2024
A4, 28 pages, front to back

A mix of various reclaimed paper and photocopy paper with hand-writing and type-writing. Thread colour varies.

Reclaimation -
methods for joining and repairability

A visual note from my journey on working with reclaimed wood. A commentary on the three ways of joining wood, categorised by ”technology” - using screws (mechanical fasteners), proper joinery (just wood) and glue (adhesives).

Small batch risograph zine
1st Edition, 2022
A6, 8 page - including covers.

Soy/rice-barn based ink printed on cup-cycling paper.

things,
Alien SSS --- DO.

A story about reclamation and belonging, to be continued.

Small batch risograph zine
1st Edition, 2024
6 x 7 cm, 18 pages including covers, opens up to a poster on the reverse side.

Soy/rice-barn based ink printed on cup-cycling paper.

Waste | Materials

Plastics,the conditions we live.

Reclaimation - methods for joining and repairability

things,Alien SSS --- DO.

Plastics,
the conditions we live.

Reclaimation -
methods for joining and repairability

things,
Alien SSS --- DO.