Comments on the movie.....

received via e mail over the last few weeks: 


I love the film – in particular, people’s responses to the piece and your arrival at the CFS. J Hampson.  Senior Strategy Officer, Arts and Culture RBKC

What a fab idea ! What's happening to it next ? I'd like it to grow and grow ! S Shotton

Just watched your Heavy Plant film & so enjoyed it. It has a great feel of the progression of the idea & the playful spirit of it's making & reception. C Rankin

Loved the film. I think I’d like to make a wonderful machine like yours! You looked really at home making your way through the streets – you must do this sort of thing regularly!

I have built two generator-bikes and use them in my science shows. My latest idea is for a solar powered scooter lets talk.  Tom www.technologytom.com

Just watched film which is really lovely, such a lot of laughter, and some great faces/expressions/people.  Bravo!  fun it is.
J Ashdown

It was a pleasure to help and the video is truly magnificent  - I so wish I could have been there...such a manic time of year. I can't wait to see what you next ideas are!

Let me know what's next - I love your work 

Abby Hazell Garden Design  studio@abigailhazell.com

 

Hi Julia - fab video and was that Jilly as well? Lovely to see the kids getting involved and lots of people interacting with it! S Hallberg

The movie - a rough cut

Heavy Plant Crossing - the movie

At last the Heavy Plant Crossing - the movie is on line. Enjoy! Let us know what you think.



In under 5 minutes the film encapsulates the process from finding and reclaiming objects to assemble a mechanical plant, which is  hybridized by its keeper as she tows it through the streets and parks of London to RHS Chelsea in their attempt to win Best Plant in Show with a finale propagation party at Worlds End Kitchen Garden.


Once you have seen it on line you may want to venture to the Garden of Disorientation to see it projected onto on the walls of the City, before the Chelsea Fringe Festival ends on the 9th May.

Artists on the move

While the plant is safely bedded out in the Garden of Disorientation I returned north to catch up on preparing sculptures for the 'Expressions of Movement' art exhibition at The Grove, Hertfordshire and heard about a Nomadic Village of international artist's that had set up an encampment to make art  in the small rural village of  Wolsingham, Co Durham.  The project is run by Klaus Maehring (Lead Artist and founder) from ORP/Austria and is supported by ISIS Arts

The encampment comprised of a collection of artists caravans, tents, shelters, recycled fibre glass containers, nestled along the bank of the wooded beck running through the village with doors wide open, artists freely invited you in to view their spaces of work & travel, containing, films, installations, performances all touching on ideas surrounding nomadism . 

Using this beautiful location as inspiration, material, stage,  seemed to me extoll the excitement of journeying to new places to meet and engage with new people.









This is excitement is a feeling I recognise from my recent journey with my Heavy Plant and which I am now reflecting and  wondering how where we might go now. I certainly feel that my journey through the parks and streets of Kensington & Chelsea is only the beginning of a much larger journey which I am beginning.

Joining in the debate

Festival Gardens:  What’s the Point? Tuesday 5^th June, 7pm –

A debate hosted by Festival Director Tim Richardson with Marco Antonini (Land I) – veterans of conceptual garden designs having shown at Metis, Westonbirt & Chaumont; Julia Barton – Sculptor and Westonbirt show garden designer, installations include Chelsea Fringe and Holker Hall; Deborah Nagan (uncommon) – designer of the Garden of Disorientation and also of conceptual gardens in Luxembourg and Canada; Tony Heywood (Heywood & Condie) – designer of a garden at Westonbirt and this year at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Tickets  are free but RSVP to Deborah@uncommonland.co.uk

Transplanting update

Polymorphus mutabils 'Mistral' is now bedding-in well at the Garden of Disorientation, at 61 Charterhouse St EC1, opposite Smithfield Market, surrounded by Mentha  spitica.

Heavy Plant Crossing will be on exhibition here until the 5th May after which it will return to the studio for further modifications  and development with further trials ready for its next quest.

Garden of Disorientation Open from 11am-6pm daily; late opening til 10pm on the 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 30, 31 May and 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 June

Transplanting to the City - 26th May

Heavy Plant Crossing will be transplanted on Saturday 26th May to the Garden of Disorientation at 1pm. Reconstruction will begin from 1.30pm, help is needed as it is a very 'Heavy Plant'!



You are welcome to help follow the flat pack instructions, check the measurements, bolt together, check the levels, attach flower heads and stand back and appraise.

The Garden of Disorientation  is a fragrant  internal pop up garden venue  hosting many artists work and events over the Chelsea Fringe Festival. The space  has been designed by Deborah Nagan of  Uncommonland

A list of the events happening  here and work being shown is available at the Chelsea Fringe website.

The first screening of the Heavy Plant Crossing short digital 'buddy film', will play from 6.15pm -7.15pm on a loop on Saturday 26th May..

The film will be played daily until the 9th June along with landscape images of Allan-Pollock Morris projected onto the wall of Smithfield. 


Venue is open 11am-9pm