paula roush
PORTFOLIO
SELECTED WORKS
ABOUT
paula roush is an artist-curator and publisher founder of the msdm
studio for mobile strategies of display and mediation, based in London UK.
A PRÁTICA ARTÍSTICA COMO INFRAESTRUTURA | ARTISTIC PRACTICE AS INFRASTRUCTURE
info
Metabolic Herbarium / Potions HERB FEST 1-3 May 2026
WORKSHOPS
Herbário Metabólico & Pesquisa Participativa em Saúde; CONVERSA-OFICINA paula roush & Emiliano Dantas na MONOCELHA Estúdio 4afeira 17 Junho 17h entrada livre
WORKSHOPS
Da Lenta Travessia das Raízes: Lançamento da publicação Cadavre Exquis — Fotografar em Continuidade Sábado, 9 de Maio de 2026, 15:00 MUDE — Museu do Design
photoworks
Fieldwork An editorial practice for reading landscapes.
WORKS
Liquid Memories: Water as an epistemic system
Artistic Research
Follow Y/Our River: Riverine Ecologies and Deep Mapping
Artistic Research
One Green Eye, the Other Blue: Herbarium of the Anthropocene
Artistic Research
Metabolic Herbarium- Plants, bodies, images and ecologies of care
Artistic Research
Entangled: Humans & Plants in Presence (Exercises of attention with found photographs) Convergentes/ Anozero Bienal de Coimbra 26
WORKSHOPS
Hybrid Herbarium: Cyanotype & AI Cartographies. Experimental Fest 25 July 2026
WORKSHOPS
Book of Water (Tidal Lea) Livro da Água (Marés do Lea)
WORKSHOPS
ARQUIVO PESSOAL, corpo de trabalho / Personal Archive, Body of Work
WORKSHOPS
CREiA — Creative Attentive Studio (mindful art practice / attention / body–mind ecologies)
WORKSHOPS
Follow Y/Our River: Lower Lea Valley, East London UK
Research Project
paula & work A document on machinic enslavement in academic capitalism
Artistic Research
Torn, Folded, Curled
Archival publishing project
Artistic Research
ə / uh-BOOKS project space: experimental space for photobook publishing
artist's book
Terrain Vague Ecologies Editorial Cartographies for Post-Industrial Landscapes
msdm publications
Metabolic Herbarium Plant–Body Relations, Image Making and Ecologies of Care
msdm publications
Joana Nascimento, Livro de artista (lugar e veículo): o campo comum entre arte e educação
writing
UM OLHO VERDE OUTRO AZUL: HERBÁRIO DO ANTROPOCENO monograph
msdm publications
Al-Yom (Today) torn curled folded
msdm publications
The expanded practice of the artist’s book: Immersion in the artist’s museum
msdm publications
liquid memories ~to read with water
msdm publications
WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved
msdm publications
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Follow y / our river lea-minal edges | prompts for transitory states of being
msdm publications
Follow y/our river: a manual for deep mapping in the Lower Lea Valley
msdm publications
Photobook Is Did You Mean Photo Book Is
msdm publications
SUPER-PRIVATE Sourcing from the Arab Image Foundation Photographic Collections
msdm publications
The Empty Spaces | Personal Absolute Space Point
msdm publications
The Beauties of DECOMPOSITION Displayed In bibliographical, historical, and descriptive pulp, interspersed with anecdotes of the arts
msdm publications
DOMENEST 21 cards for mobile strategies of display & mediation
msdm publications
Tender Cups: Ten found bras with ten poems about absent breasts
msdm publications
Faz Tu Mesmx: Arte por Instrução
msdm publications
WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved (artist's edition)
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SUPER – PRIVATE : SCENES 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
msdm publications
Hypnotic Highway paperback edition
msdm publications
Queer Paper Gardens or The Wild Life of Symbols
msdm publications
Hypnotic Highway artist's edition
msdm publications
The past persists in the present in the form of a dream (Participatory Architectures, Memory, Revolution)
msdm publications
News from NowhereLockdown (or An Epoch of Unrest)
msdm publications
News from NowhereLockdown (or An Epoch of Unrest) -photobook edition
msdm publications
A field (of interconnected realities)
msdm publications
Russian Ballet Riot newspaperwork
msdm publications
Paintball field (3.06 billion cycles per second) newspaper work - Duplicate
msdm publications
Paintball field (hardcover edition)
msdm publications
RS FILES london – munich to be continued
msdm publications
The past persists in the present in the form of a dream (Participatory Architectures, Memory, Revolution)
msdm publications
House_Flow: Form/Design Center and Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx). 24 Sept 2025 – 23 Nov 2025
installation
Water in the library: a guide to fluid publishing na 15a Feira do Livro de Fotografia de Lisboa, 30 nov 2025
library as practice
Wanderings in Space and Time (Andamentos no Espaço e no Tempo), MIRA Galleries, Campanhã Porto, Sept 19- Oct 26, 2025
installation
Um Olho Verde Outro Azul: Herbarium for the Anthropocene, MIRA Forum, Campanhã Porto, March-May 2025
installation
Fitogramas e eco-tinturaria na horta comunitária: “This Is Not a Herbarium!” Galeria Alberg’arte, September 18 to October 19, 2025
photography
Book of Water II (Tidal Lea)
Participatory artwork
Books of Water I (River Peck)
Participatory artwork
liquid memories~to read with water: Open book launch, Borough Road Gallery, London, 12 May 2022
installation
Liquid Memory | Memória Líquida, EPAL Water Museum, Lisbon, 25 August-15 October 2023
installation
Follow Y/Our River Lea-Minal Edges: Open book launch, Borough Road Gallery, London, May 2023
installation
paula roush: PAINTBALL FIELD (3,06 billion cycles per second) installation for the Red GAllery at Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita, commissioned by Barreiro Photography Month, 1 Nov 2018–10 Feb 2019 Barreiro Portugal
installation
Herbarium for the Anthropocene, MIRA space Campanhã Porto
installation
Publishing as Watery Strategy - The work of paula roush and msdm publications, FINITA | IMAGO Gallery, Lisbon25-27 January 2024
installation
Protocolo generativo (i): cartografias fabris abstração territorial e regimes de posse
photoworks
Protocolo generativo (ii): infraestruturas da memória e as mulheres nas tecnologias têxtil e elétrica
photoworks
PAINTBALL FIELD cycles per second Un8 Bow Lea studio
photoworks
Leaminal Edges: Prompts for Transitory States of Being
photoworks
Herbarium for the Anthropocene
Participatory artwork
"PAGE-TURNER" photography, the book & self-publishing
Workshop
SOS:OK (SAVE OUR SOULS: ZERO KILLINGS) Kit: Guide+ Emergency biscuit in a box
Participatory artwork
Swapnil Patil: Floating Fallacy & The Empty Spaces
Project type
Trying to Build Feminist Counter-Infrastructures in the Algorithmic University
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