hallowed blossom

hallowed blossom || BIG Sculpture St Kilda Biennale 2022 || nov 5th - DEC 11th || Veg Out Community Gardens || artist pattie beerens

Hello and thank you for visiting

This is a link to what’s happening as hallowed blossom forms in its own garden plot within the Veg Out Community gardens StKilda. It is where visitors can learn more about the artwork and how it evolved.

I will also be posting on Instagram @pattiebeerens. If you tag your photos I’ll smile and share them.

Please come back soon and feel free to message me via this link.

pattie beerens

“Visiting Veg Out Community Gardens in late winter, I collected prunings, cut from trees in the orchard, laying aside the compost heap.

The buds on the branches told of an interruption to their sprouting momentum – and to their blossoming.

For BIG SCULPTURE, I inhabit a garden plot with a low timber picket fence and metal gate. I imagine a cognitive architecture growing rhyzomally from the gathered prunings. The sculpture is forming - blossoming - as a trace of the collaboration.

With our hands in sloppy clay coloured with earth’s wonders, conversations and stories weave around perceptions of nature as ‘other’ and romantic, StKilda as colourful and alternative, and sculpture as static and object.

With splashes of magic, place and play, an ephemeral sculpture forms … and fades … and become more skeletal as days pass.

hallowed blossom is a collaborative experience of hybrid blossoming.”