Biography
Zoetica Ebb is a multimedia artist whose award-winning Alien Botany(TM) series explores the human capacity for adaptation through the eyes of a lifelong wanderer. In her work, she challenges ideas of what is natural and looks to the potential of our genetic alphabet in an imagined future among the stars.
Ebb's art book, Chimeric Herbarium, contains the complete Alien Botany art archive and a record of the new forms these plants have taken in the years since this infectious collection was discovered on Earth. Her first animated short, Galea Displodo Interaction (2024), invites you to experience a metamorphosis of perception and lose yourself in the strange world of exoplanetary mycelium. How will these xenofungal entities treat an unexpected guest?
Zoetica Ebb is the co-founder of Coilhouse Magazine, published in print with international distribution and online from 2007 to 2011 with the tagline, "a love letter to alternative culture, in an era where alternative culture no longer exists." Coilhouse is lauded for its discerning coverage of art, music, fashion, film, technology and literature. The interviews and features in Coilhouse include Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Lissitzky, Samuel R. Delany, Blixa Bargeld, Terry Gilliam, Grant Morrison, DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh, Richard Elfman, Travis Louie, Mondo 2000's R.U. Sirius, Kathleen Hanna, Lothar Schreyer, Marina Bychkova, Ron Moore, Sonny Vincent, Xeni Jardin, and Clive Barker.
Ebb co-created The Secret Guide to Alternative Beijing - a travel series offering insight into the alternative art, fashion, music, and nightlife culture in Beijing. She's the host and executive producer of features on clandestine places alongside intimate conversations with cultural luminaries including Ren Hang, Vega Wang, and Chen Man.
Ebb is the founder of D4RT- a crowd-funded project that brought art classes and supplies to the children of a remote developing village in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, where Zoetica taught a three-day art workshop and painted a mural on the village school wall.
Zoetica Ebb has been featured in Dazed, LA Weekly, G4TV, Gizmodo, Hyperallergic and many others. Years of migration have led her to embrace alienation as a valuable chosen state; her work speaks to our boundless capacity for transformation and survival in the face of impossible odds.
In addition to continuing to develop Alien Botany(TM), Zoetica Ebb has launched several capsule fashion collections featuring these illustrations. She lives in London.
