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Scarlett is a Material Researcher and Designer investigating environmental and social narratives embedded within industrial systems. Working across design and material innovation, their practice explores the hidden impacts of mining, mineral processing, and global supply chains, questioning the systems that shape our material world.

Through research-led experimentation with industrial by-products and overlooked resources, Scarlett reimagines material possibilities. Their work utilises material residues for processed outcomes that challenge conventional ideas of transparency and regeneration while highlighting the relationship between extraction/consumption and environments.

By bridging critical research with material development, Scarlett creates work that fosters greater responsibility within production systems and proposes more circular futures rooted in resource awareness and environmental accountability.

02.Wheal Maid

Tailings Dam/Lagoon
Cornwall, UK
Research for After Extraction Site Visit

Sample Collection
Photography Documentation
2025
Grounded on the site of Wheal Maid Valley Tailings Lagoon, located in the Gwennap Valley of Cornwall. A site visit was conducted with permission of Gwennp Parish Council. Samples were taken for later SEM analysis documenting the mineral makeup of the site, serving as the foundation for After Extraction’s material process.

Wheal Maid was predominantly used as a tailings deposit in its later years, and we are presently still seeing its impacts. The finely ground waste material was produced during the mineral separation of tin processing and ultimately dumped, creating the large settling lagoons. This mineral-rich sludge contains high concentrations of heavy metals, mainly including Arsenic, Copper, Cadmium, Lead and Zinc, nodding to the remnants of the long history of the area’s mineral extraction and processing.

The tailings pools often turn bright red in the summer due to the oxidising iron and higher concentration of mineral residues present as water levels in the lagoon drop. This produces an aesthetic landscape that is often referred to as ‘Cornish Mars’, also implying the chemical hazardness of the site. 
1/5    Sample collection in lower lagoon
2/5    Sediment exposure 1
3/5      Lagoon Water 
4/5     Lower Lagoon
5/5    Sediment exposure 2