Garden of Making is inspired by Bridget Bailey’s encounters with plants and insects on her allotment.
From millinery and textiles to fly-tying, found feathers to cat whiskers, velvet to abaca fibre, this immersive installation grows from the creative compost of her making life. Techniques and species combine and cross pollinate, revealing parallels between making and the way nature evolves.
The viewer is invited to ponder extreme delicacy in swirls of insects merged with flower structures, or experience the excitement of discovering millinery DNA in the rolled straw edge of a tiny peapod.
Materials and techniques create a new world away from their natural habitats where they can be discovered again for the first time.
Supported by The British Hat Guild.