The Giving Garden

Collective Haunt ARI, Norwood, Kaurna Yerta

The Giving Garden explores the pleasure of growing edible flowers and giving garden produce through sculptural artworks made with combinations of traditional and garden-derived materials.
Gardens provide a source of solace in times of crisis. The home produce garden is a site of reciprocal care, sought out in times of crisis to build up an attractive field around oneself whilst also building ecological function. The garden acts as a support structure for human and plant companion's wellbeing and nourishment.
The exhibition invites viewers to engage in giving and taking home grown produce in the gallery. Give what you can, take what you need.

Time spent tending a garden brings time for reflection - on memories, on relationships. The relationship between plants and insects. Between humans and plants. The quiet companionship of plants with other plants, as supports for one another.

We support plants with structures, showing care by staking or providing a trellis. In return plants provide us food - climbing beans or caged tomatoes. A garden nourishes us with a sense of wellbeing, a filling up with joy and tables of edible blooms.

A garden cares for us as we care for it. Gardeners extend this care to those around them, sharing excess produce and plants.

UnMarket Cart , 2025

salvaged timber, crates, baskets, buckets, cloth, wheels, donated produce

212 x 180 x 108cm