SOLO EXHIBITION

Private View: 7th June 6-8pm

Exhibition: 11th June - 4th July 2025 Wed -Sat 12am-6pm

Ruup & Form, 7 Tilney ct, London EC1V 9BQ 

Ruup & Form presents SIMPLING, a solo exhibition by Kerry Lemon, featuring the work of her alter-ego, MRS ROE. Rooted in the old English practice of simpling (the gathering of medicinal plants by midwives, wise women and herbalists) this exhibition explores reproductive justice and community ritual. SIMPLING reclaims the shared knowledge and resistance of womxn, including a new collection of brass wall sculptures inspired by the artist’s recent time in Paris and the botanical aesthetics of Art Nouveau. Bridging folklore with contemporary ecological concerns, MRS ROE invites us to reconsider the enduring power of communal wisdom with embodied care in an era of environmental and social disruption.

Sat 7th JUNE Private View 6-8pm 

Opening celebration of Simpling

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Thu 12th June 6.30-8.30pm Museum of the Home

Plant Knowledge as Power £20

'Women's Weeds' with Dr Romany Reagan

Exclusive after hours event in partnership with the Museum of the Home

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Fri 20th JUNE Artist Presentation 7-8pm 

Talk by the artist Kerry Lemon exploring the inspiration and themes of the exhibition.

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Sat 28th June 10am-12pm Herbs and Ancient Knowledge Systems

£25 Herbal Tea Making workshop with Forage Botanicals

Fri 4th July Finissage 4-6pm 

Exhibition closing party 

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MRS ROE explores what it means to be a womxn dislocated from the natural world through the lens of reproductive justice. She crafts ritualistic, eco-cultural performances that interrogate the power structures shaping femxle sexuality and reproduction.

The indigenous, medicinal plant knowledge once safeguarded by womxn has mutated into a patriarchal system of western medicine and criminalised abortion. MRS ROE employs folk ritual as a medium to re-examine this ancient knowledge and system of community care, co-existent with each other and our bacterial, animal, geological, botanical planet.