Artist Cecilia Vincuna’s work ‘Brain Forest Quipu’, commissioned by Tate Modern, sees Vincuna place 27 metres of pale chipu sculptures on the ceilings at either end of the Turbine Hall, woven from a variety of materials including readymade objects, unwoven wool, plant fibres, rope and cardboard. The Kip sculptures are combined with music and sound,…

When it comes to floral painting and smooth curvy lines, Georgia O’Keeffe’s oil paintings attract me most. Flowers is the motif that she always returns to throughout her life. By magnifying her subject, I found out that she emphasised shape and colour and brought attention to the tiny details within the flower. Many claim that…

Jeff Nishinaka is a paper sculptor from Los Angeles. After attending University of California, Los Angeles, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from the prestigious Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena, California. Paper started becoming Nishinaka’s medium of choice when he was an art student. He used paper to create…

To learn more about the plants, I went to kew garden to observe their forms. During visit, I took many photographs of flowers and plants and sketched some of them on the spot. I used water-based markers and acrylic markers for quick sketches. Some selected photographs in the huge photo pile ( ･3･ )

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, renowned in his field, that creates temporary landscape art installations out of sticks and stones, and anything and everything else that he finds outside.  What interests me most about his work is its use of different colours and shapes of leaves. He arranges the leaves flat in nature in…

Designed by stage designer Es Devlin, this church dome installation is located in the square outside Tate Modern and is a joint project between Cartier and the Wildlife Conservation Society. On the side near the Tate facade is the half-clad church facade, inspired by the dome structure of St Paul’s Cathedral. On the side opposite…

I made some collages with some of the botanical work I have photographed in the past to spread my inspiration. The images in this collage are all plant clumps on the side of the road or on the walls of buildings. These plants are vigorous and persist in growing through the concrete. The contrast between…

I encountered a cluster of plants on the side of a road, it is one of my inspirations. which Even while living in concrete and asphalt, this bush persists in growing.  It trigged my thinking about the coexistence of plants and humans in the metropolis.

11.10.2022, Walworth Road, London

In the two cities where I have lived for a long time, both London in England and Shenzhen in China, with the development of the cities, countless high-rise buildings have appeared one after another, forming a large steel and concrete forest.  Even though there are landscape plants in the urban planning and design, after I…