Natalie Taylor, hosted by the Towerbank Primary School

Natalie 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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