💐⚡️ART — alice mccabe floral artist

OmVed Gardens

Growth Exhibition 15.05 - 23.05.21 // A collaboration with OmVed Gardens and Thrown Contemporary

"The natural world growing around us, the constant ebb and flow of plants reacting to the seasons, at a pace invisible to our busy lives. And of course our own emotional growth, an inward personal journey which may not be visible to the outside world – and sometimes even, yet, ourselves."


Claire Pearce, curator of exhibition and director of Thrown Contemporary.


It is a pleasure to be collaborating again with OmVed Gardens and Thrown Contemporary again for their 2021 Exhibition "Growth" as part of The Chelsea Fringe. Following ongoing hardships and uncertainties this exhibition looks at the weathering and points of direct friction as we face each other, ourselves and society moving forward.

My "Flipside Gardens: Spring / Autumn" and "Summer / Winter" (which together illustrate the garden year) are now on display at Growth exhibition alongside creation of new floral vessel "Gatekeeper" which sees my flowers move from inside to outside of the vessel, to become the whole arrangement.

To view the exhibition online visit Growth Exhibition

Gatherers Exhibition 16.05–26.07.20 // A collaboration with OmVed Gardens and Thrown Contemporary

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A collaboration by OmVed Gardens, Thrown and Metafleur (my new sustainable flowers venture), Gatherers was originally formed as part of the Chelsea Fringe Festival and with lockdown restrictions halting plans, the exhibition was re-thought for the digital sphere, presented through Virtual Reality, online workshops, film and photographs.

Using the medium of ceramics as a starting point, the exhibition includes wild clay projects that stretch from Tambourine Mountain, Australia, right back to OmVed Gardens itself. 

The ceramic work and exhibition content is further expanded by foraged floral displays from Metafleur. These include an intertwined collaborative wild garden installation by Metafleur’s founder Alice McCabe and ceramicist Zuleika Melluish on the central stage. With Alice’s usual suppliers suspended, Metafleur uses solely flowers dried from previous events together with materials from friends offcuts and materials. 

For more information about the images and all ceramic artists please see Gatherers.co

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