'Tools for Them' showing at NRW-Forum

Showing from FEBRUARY 11 – MAY 22 2022

'Tools for Them' was exhibited in the Subversive Designs show at NRW-Forum in Dusseldorf. The exhibition space has been transformed into a warehouse where functional shelving systems house the pieces and a robot moves through the aisles transporting products. Instead of unique artistic pieces, the group exhibition shows products by contemporary designers who deal with some of the pressing issues of our time: climate change, digitalisation, and discrimination. The exhibition is curated by Alain Bieber, artistic director of the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, and Judith Winterhager, curatorial assistant of the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Some of the works were found using nextmuseum.io, the platform for co-curation and co-creation. The exhibition design is by Please Don’t Touch.

ManMade by Nature Exhibition

(UNIX GALLERY / NEW YORK CITY)

Our public intervention at Unix Gallery was quite a sight.  In true Subversive Gardener fashion, dressed to impress and also ready to guerrilla garden, we transformed a tree pit into a beautiful garden in front of the gallery where we showed off our Tools by ‘Q’ and Tools for Them collection in the ManMade by Nature show.

Footprints at the 58th Venice Biennale

(VENICE BIENALE, ITALY)

Footprints is an interactive sculpture by Wild Flag Studios that explores the juxtaposition between identity, mass migration, and physical barriers through sound, light, and movement. Driven by current immigration data and illustrated using animated light patterns, Footprints is an art installation that conveys the number of forced migrants crossing borders per minute due to conflict – A sobering representation of the sheer volume of people embarked on a journey to find peace.

On Exhibition at the 58th Venice Biennale from May till November 2019

'Enter the Kaleidoscope' Opens to the public!

(ANDAZ 5TH AVENUE HOTEL - NEW YORK CITY)

Commissioned by Andaz 5th Avenue, ‘Enter The Kaleidoscope” is an art installation created by Wild Flag Studios that invites hotel guests and members of the public to experience the Andaz brand through unique interactive sculptures. Triggered by the presence of the observer, the wheel reflects shapes and patterns into multi surface mirrors. The result is a brand experience that fuses art, design and engineering to create an art piece that illustrates the visual identity and core ethos of Andaz 5th Avenue through the dynamic lens of a kaleidoscope.

Food by Design: Sustaining the Future

(MUSEUM OF DESIGN, ATLANTA)

Subversive Gardener’s Tools for Them was featured in the Food by Design: Sustaining the Future Exhibition at the Museum of Design in Atlanta, Georgia.

'Tools for Them' Launches at the London Design Festival

(OXO TOWERS, LONDON, UK)

The Subversive Gardener Pop Up Open in Shoreditch London

(BOXPARK, LONDON)

The Subversive Gardener Pop-Up @BOXPARK is a multi-media installation inside a shipping container filled with plants, customised wallpaper a bespoke scent and accompanied by an original score by David Gardener, a member of the South London band Dems. The Subversive Gardener Pop Up @BOXPARK debuted a new line of accessories designed by Vanessa Harden that function as guerrilla gardening tools. Brass nail dusters are a new spin on knuckle dusters and function as a rake, spade, or shovel while a 24 carat gold-plated grillz (teeth) shoots seeds at a distance. These are some of the pieces you’ll find at the pop-up.

The container also contains the Subversive Gardener's Lab, offering daily guerrilla gardening workshops to the public that teach seed saving techniques and bespoke tools making skills.

Members of the public will also be invited to learn about seed pills, seed bombs and other DIY gardening products. Workshops and talks from guerrilla gardeners and environmental activists were scheduled throughout the Subversive Gardener Pop Up @BOXPARK.

Queercoy @ WorldPride Toronto

(TORONTO, CANADA)

Queercoy is a public intervention and human rights video campaign created for WorldPride Toronto. The project adopts an approximation of a human form that is embedded with surveillance equipment to record the occurrences that surround Queercoy.  Throughout the WorldPride event, Queercoy was placed in multiple scenarios to offer a personalized account of the festival. Wild Flag Studios was commissioned by WorldPride Toronto to create an interactive art piece that celebrated diversity, equality and love.

Late Night MasterCard Talk/Workshops @ Victoria & Albert Museum, London

(VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON)

Speaking about the newest subversive gardening products that are based on existing artefacts in the V&A permeant collection.

Subversive Gardener showing Projekt Design Silesia

(CIESZYN, POLAND)

Subversive Gardener exhibits in the Projekt Design Silesia show.

Subversive Gardener @ Artefact Festival in Belgium

(LEUVEN, BELGIUM)

Subversive Gardener on exhibition at the STUK Arts Centres part of the Artefact Festival.

Urban Sputnik at the Royal Institution

(LONDON, UK)

Urban Sputnik is exhibited at the prestigious Royal Institution in London UK.

Craft Meets Technology Exhibition at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft

(LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY)

MouseMatch shown in the ‘Craft Meets Technology’ exhibition at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft.

Intel Creators Project

(LONDON, UK)

Person of the Year on show at the Marlenone Cathedral as part of the Intel Creators Project.

'Built by Bees' given Honorary Mention at the 'Design for All' competition

(SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA)

Built by Bees awarded an honorary mention at the ‘Design for All’ competition as part of the Seoul Design Fair.

Fatti Per Coltivare Exhibition, Milano Italy

(MILANO, ITALY)

Subversive Gardener showing in Milano as part of the ‘Fatti Per Coltivare’ exhibition about domestic gardening.

Built by Bees @ Victoria and Albert Museum for the London Design Festival

(LONDON, UK)

Honourable Mention for 'Skinpaper' at Dutch Design Week

(EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS)

Skinpaper, a collaborative project with Tommaso Lanza explores the cross section between a living specimen and paper. It has been given an honourable mention by Next Nature, and was shown as part of the Nano-Supermarket during Dutch Design Week

Subversive Gardener showing @ Salone del Mobile

(MILANO, ITALY)

Subversive Gardener on show at Salone del Mobile, Milano’s annual design festival.

'Demain C’est Aujourd’hui' Biennale International de Design St. Etienne

(ST. ETIENNE, FRANCE)

Subversive Gardener exhibited in the 'Demain C’est Aujourd’hui' show at the Biennale International de Design St. Etienne.