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2: Natalie Taylor - The Secret Garden

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Natalie Taylor, hosted by the Towerbank Primary School

Secret bowerNatalie Taylor has been incorporating living plants into mechanical or systematic structures since 1998. Recently she has been creating large-scale growing artworks for outdoor sites, both in Edinburgh and Finland. Time-based aspects of her work include live piano performances of music fashioned from Mustard seed formations and slow motion films of seeds growing into musical compositions.

Title of work - The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden: A subtle intervention within a ‘wild’ garden exploring our relationship with seeds and clones.

This garden nestled within the play area of TowerBank Primary School nurtures secrets usually hidden from the human eye. Most of the true miracles of Nature occur in dark hidden places. Seed germination, fertilization and initial growth all occur best out of the glare of light. How have we intervened in the history of cross-fertilization, breeding and genetic diversity to arrive at our own sources of nourishment? How much of Nature’s bounty is actually left untouched?

www.nataliejtaylor.com

www.edinburghsculpture.org/artists

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 November 2011 21:28  

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Big Things on the Beach is a public art trust in Portobello, a seaside suburb close to the city centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was formed by a group of residents in 2003 to explore the potential of the seafront as a site for engagement with public artworks by both emerging and established artists.

Since 2004 we have commissioned artists to create substantial temporary artworks, trained ourselves and others in the process of commissioning public artworks through international site visits and guest lectures and successfully raised funding to these ends.

Our current project - The Big Welcome - is supported by Creative Scotland, Portobello & Craigmillar Neighbourhood Partnership and Edinburgh City Libraries