How did our ancestors connect with nature in ways which have been lost in everyday life today?

We have grown used to seeing a more ordered synthetic nature. Freshly mown laws, evenly spaced trees, neatly trimmed hedges, potted plants, roundabouts full of golden marigolds. I see glimpses of wildness in the city between the cracks of concrete. Longing for the unkemptness of an ancient woodland, a wild flower meadow with insects and creatures singing in the embrace of a velvet moss blanket.

My reconnections with nature and the city as an urban landscape are embodied as architectural relics. They take an organic form transforming synthetic materials, imitating cycles of decay and renewal in nature, imagining layers of human and natural architecture as a hybrid symbiosis.

Currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery

FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE

12 February – 5 May 2025

12 February – 5 May 2025

Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London, SW3 4RY