Clare Twomey Exhibitions

Blossom Eden Project December 2007 In collaboration with Cape Farewell

This vast and delicate work comprises of thousands and thousands of fragile handmade unfired china clay flowers.
They weave in and out of the walkway that ambles across the base of the Eden Project site.

The ten thousand fragile handmade flowers are deteriorating every day against the conditions of the weather, exposed and vulnerable, a poetic suggestion of imminent change. The change that can be observed within this vast work focuses on the china clay materials returning through their demise back to the former clay pit they are now sitting on.

Winter Season at the Eden Project Blossom. 21 December 2007

This Winter Season sees the beginning of Cape Farewell's long-term artistic collaboration with the Eden Project, introducing a major new commission Blossom by artist Clare Twomey. This vast and delicate work comprises of thousands of fragile unfired china clay flowers that weave in and out of the central pathway at the Eden Project site interacting with the horticultural displays. The flowers deteriorate by the hour and day responding to the conditions of the weather, exposed and vulnerable. Blossom interacts with a sound installation by Max Eastley and Vicky Long who have worked together to combine recordings made in the High Arctic. Installations along the path carry the crash of the waves, the sound of ice melting, the industry of Cape Farewell's oceanographers and the awe experienced by the artists in this inspiring, yet threatening and threatened, environment. www.capefarewell.com