On The Shore

I collaborated on several projects with Acroyd Harvey whose practice often involves growing grass seeds on a jute canvas in defined patterns to reveal text or images. “On The Shore” revealed a poem by Ben Okri. The whole 12m canvas was seeded at Tate Modern and then taken several days later to be floated on the Thames for a few hours to bring awareness to environmental issues.

I produced the canvas base to their specifications, which was a fun but mammoth of a job involving a few hours of very physical sewing …..