Bringing the Garden into Everyday Life
My participatory practice explores how sensory experiences of the garden can be translated through clay into personal and collective forms of making. Through close observation, physical encounters with clay and shared making, I create activities that invite participants to explore care, comfort, imagination and belonging.
Personal Gardens
Participatory Clay Project
St Paul’s School, London · April–May 2026 · Three sessions
Independently designed and facilitated
Observing and Making a Personal Garden
Participants began by spending time in the school garden, closely observing the forms, textures and details of the surrounding plants. Through drawing and clay-making, they translated these observations into personal garden spaces shaped by memory, imagination and their own ideas of comfort and healing.
Observational drawings and ideas developed during the garden study
Developing Personal Garden Forms
Participants developed their drawings into individual clay gardens, combining observed plant forms with personal memories, imagined details and ideas of a comforting space.
Our Garden
Urgency of the Arts · Royal College of Art, London · January 2026
Collaborative Activity developed for Knots & Tangles
Developed as part of Knots & Tangles, an RCA programme exploring connections through materials, stories and gardens, Our Garden was a collaborative making activity created with my group. Participants made individual garden elements inspired by their memories, experiences and imagination, before bringing them together to form a shared landscape. Through making and arranging their contributions together, the activity explored how individual ideas could become a space for connection, care and belonging.
Our Garden, a collective landscape formed from participants’ individual contributions
Proposed Development
A Garden Growing Between Us
Building on Our Garden, this proposed participatory project invites children and families to create individual clay gardens and explore how they might connect through distance, placement and shared space.