Madge Evers uses foraged materials to explore decomposition and regeneration and has adapted the mushroom spore print form to make works on paper. Referencing photosynthesis and the ancient collaboration in mycorrhiza, her practice sometimes includes photography, the cyanotype process, and paint. In the artist’s own words, The New Herbarium series “explores our entangled dependence on an ever-changing environment and the increasingly chaotic results of our desire to shape the natural world” by reimagining the centuries-old process of collecting and preserving plants for science and art.
Her work has been published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and acquired by private and institutional collectors. Artist residencies in New England, Virginia, and Ireland have allowed Evers to interact with landscapes and their histories. Madge lives and works in western Massachusetts where she was a public school teacher for 25 years. She now facilitates cyanotype workshops for people of all ages.