Muamba Posy, 2025 at Wild Uplands

Commissioned by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture • Curated by Shanaz Gulzar

Installation views at Penistone Hill Country Park, Haworth, UK

Muamba Posy is a series of interactive sculptures that reflect on the ever changing cycles of nature of Penistone Hill, where life has adapted and transformed over time. Each sculpture invites us to explore the connections between sculpture, the human body and the natural world.

The sculptures are inspired by Penistone Hill’s distant past - around 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous period, when the area was part of a lush tropical forest with a climate similar to that of today’s Amazon.

The sculptures evoke the oversize plants and vibrant wildlife that once thrived there, also taking inspiration from plants and creatures that define Penistone Hill landscape's today. The metallic shades of the sculptures are a nod to the metal-loving plants that thrive in the area's mineral-rich soil, an important part of life on the hill, creating a visual bridge between deep geological time and the living ecosystems that surround us today.

Wild Uplands took place at Penistone Hill Country Park , Haworth, UK, from May to October 2025

From January 2026, Muamba Posy has been exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK