Flowers Forever

My 'Nine Wild Plants' project is an ongoing exploration of consumerism and lost knowledge. The project began after reading ecological thinkers, including Paul Hawken, who notes that the average Western adult can recognise over 1000 brand names or logos, but fewer than ten local, indigenous plants. Nine, large-scale, collages drawings including the stinging nettle, buttercup and poppy. These works interweave a theme of lost knowledge with the rigour of scientific specimens. I collaged fragments of found materials illustrating sweet packets, food packaging and fizzy drink logos etc. onto black ink line drawings depicting the Field Poppy, Dandelion, Lawn Daisy, Lesser Celandine, Cowslip, Dog Rose, Dog Daisy, Meadow Buttercup, and Hybrid Bluebell. The drawings are all based on my own herbarium sheets.

A new set of nine wild flower drawings, based on the nine 'most recognised' British wild flowers, was presented in the curated, survey exhibition 'Flowers Forever' at the Kunsthalle Munich 2023.

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The exhibition toured to:

Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany

Il Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy

Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands

Please view a video if the exhibition in Rotterdam, selected by the Director of the Museum Voorlinden, Ms Suzanne Swartz (in Dutch)

Flowers Forever in the Kunsthal Rotterdam selected by Suzanne Swartz, Museum Voorlinden