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 Newspaper  2023 14 pages edition of 30    

Video and record  for the track Galo by O yama O, 2023, Bison records From the Quietus 2023 "On Galo, O Yama O, the quartet of Rie Nakajima, Keiko Yamamoto, Marie Roux and Billy Steiger, embrace an improbable array of sound sources. Whistles and whirling rubber tubes meet percussion that could have been taken from a kitchen. Through it all, violin, piano and drums effortlessly switch from stumbling to soaring. Vocals teeter between tender and rabble rousing. But this motley collection of instrumentation isn't a gimmick. From 'Hakushon's stomp through to the title track's joyful fervour, O Yama O sift compelling and remarkably catchy music from unconventional sources. Galo is an invitation to a place where tradition and convention are twisted in a manner that is warmly welcoming rather than alienating." Daryl Worthington https://oyamao.bandcamp.com/album/galo O Yama O at All Ears Festival, Oslo O yama O Lp, Mana Records

 https://theballadofpeckhamrye.com/a/the-growing-project-open-call-for-artists/ 2021 Hello Nature | Elyse Blackshaw, Blythe Cheung & Marie Roux In the context of the greatest health crisis of our times, increasing scientific evidence highlights the critical importance of accessing our natural environment – of garden plants, gardens and gardening, as a key factor that can benefit our physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Hello Nature is a series of artist-led commissions and workshops that aim to provide Southwark residents with greater opportunities to engage with the natural environment. The project is being delivered in partnership with The Ballad of Peckham Rye, a not-for-profit contemporary art commissioning organisation, Action For Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL), an organisation established to support asylum seekers, vulnerable migrants and refugees in south east London and One Tree Hill Allotment Society, a member run community allotment. Hello N

 On and On  the Yellow Knitbone shore at Project 78 Gallery https://www.project78gallery.com/onandontheyellowknitboneshore Photos by Karolína Mikesková "This can last a long time, until one erradicates directions. There is no more good sense, they are either special or forbidden, so I went round ...I went round...” From The Giratory Sense by Raymond Devos     Last year we unearthed Comfrey from the marshes and replanted it in a garden that we had access to and also in the front garden of where I live. It was nice to think that this is how one can make a garden, taking a plant from a place where it grows wild and bring it tosomewhere close where hopefully it might find it favourable to grow there too. Gardeners give each other plants and seeds all the time. Bees and birds transport seeds around too. It goes round. ​ Also having Comfrey nearby meant if it was needed to help heal sore bodies it could be done. It also became quite addictive to bring flowers and

A la recherche de Samson  Welcome to the neighbourhood Askeaton COntemporary Art, 2013   Marie Roux’s interests in geology and the various roles that stones and rock find around the Askeaton area resulted in Flying Stones, a series of photographs detailing a local limestone quarry, alongside documentation of a night-time encounter and pyrotechnic intervention with Samson’s Stone, a site often referred to in local folklore and located south of Askeaton. These images were displayed in Tierney Moran’s Hardware store where they took on an almost utilitarian role, as if they could be used as tools, measures, or even adhesives to measure, split or hold together Askeaton itself.