Shed Project
Re-Rooting
Re-Rooting (7 - 30 October 2021) was an exhibition unearthing the psychological and political undergrowth behind connections to 'the land'. Inspired by the rising popularity of gardening during the Covid-19 pandemic, the show examines how artists relate to nature as a means of personal and socio-political healing. It was selected from an open call and funded by Folkestone Triennial Fringe.
Read my interview with Fernanda Galvão, published on YAC.
Featuring plants, zines and artworks by Sandgate Community Garden, Howard Sooley, Shorsh Saleh, Fernanda Galvão, Amber Sherratt and Lyndsay Mann and activists from around the world.
Re-Rooting PV
Amber Sherrat's '@mama.gardened' (2020)
Zine library
Speech at the PV
Zine library
Sandgate Community Garden's planter
Amber Sherratt's '@mama.gardened' (2020) makes public the extent of daily care required to sustain another life by inviting the audience to propagate free cuttings of her late-mother’s plants. Sherratt’s nursery acts as a means of celebrating life whilst also facing the inevitability of death.
Zine library
From the planter of herbs and shrubs
Read my interview with Fernanda Galvão
Shed Project (from L-R: Jacob Lomas, Amy Melling, Sauren Blaney, Xinyu Ren, Jessica Slater and Olivia Bright)
Shorsh Saleh's 'Displacement' (2019) explores socio-political healing on a macro scale.
Howard Sooley’s unflinching yet tender photographs of Derek Jarman (1990) encapsulate the garden as a site of resistance.
Sandgate Community Gardeners
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Lyndsay Mann's essay-film 'A Desire for Organic Order' (2016) asks complex questions of decolonisation, migration and ownership.
Refreshments