We Have Plants In Common
🌳 We have plants in common – an exhibition of artwork by Angelica Vanasse
🌿 Sept 2026 – Sept 2027
@lovecedarfarm
📅 Save the date! The opening celebration is happening Saturday Oct 24 6-9pm ❤️Come early & explore Cedar Farm and have a bite to eat before the creative celebration, snacks & drinks happen!
🎨 A series of creative workshops will be taking place – dm for info:
🍂 Tuesday 3 Nov – In the Harvest
Harvest concertina journal
✨ Tuesday 26 Jan – In the Belly
Dream collage
🌸 Tuesday 11 May – In the Blossom
Botanical print garland
🌻 Tuesday 20 July 2027 – In the Growth
Garden self portrait
🌼 About this exhibition – by Rebecca Baillie
Born in the US, now living and working in the UK, Vanasse’s wide reaching and multi-disciplinary practice is rooted in collaboration, the abundance of nature and an exploration of joy along the way. Working with different people and moving to various places to do so, she poses the question throughout her dynamic oeuvre, “What connects us to the living world and to each other?”, and concludes, “we have plants in common”.
Plants shelter us and nourish us. They generously provide food that sustains us and cleverly create a landscape that wraps protectively around us offering constant inspiration. Vanasse is highly attuned to the intricate cycle of life and to change wafted in by the seasons. She seeks to grab hold of the fleeting, to feel the shifting breeze and to imprint the beautiful patterns of plants using a highly inventive and varied toolkit, which includes drawing, photography, sculpture, textiles, botanical dying techniques, printmaking and foraging.
In honour of the rich, diverse and ever flowing fabric of nature, Vanasse points others towards the rhythm of growth and circular energy that she depicts in her art and lives by in day to day activities. Within traditional exhibition hangs, educational settings, immersive/ interactive environments, and even in her own kitchen, she playfully suggests – and offers starting points to help – that her audience do not delay, that they fully inhale the day ahead and make connections with every living element.