Floral Installation | Shirely Sharewood Gallery
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Last year Back in 2016, Law's London installation - which you can read about and see images of in my post here - used 1,400 stems but the scale of this installation sees approximately 375,000 preserved flora from a personal collection, saved over the last decade, handcrafted into garlands.
Law tells us,
"It's difficult to flow against the cycle of life and death, trying to preserve and hold on to a material that traditionally has little or no value in a modern culture. The natural world has been at the core of my artwork and I have always longed to create art that enables the viewer to find serenity within nature, transporting them into a space without the constraints of time and where there is still life in death."
It's definitely worth a worth a visit, as are the other exhibitions in the gallery. In fact, if you're yet to make plans for Mother's Day, treat her to a trip to Kew Gardens, with afternoon tea in The Orangery followed by a visit to this exhibition of preserved flora. A little different than giving a traditional bouquet of flowers.
Exhibition on Until March 11th
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