Come along to our relaxed conversation about From the Folde, with insights from the artist and curator and the chance to ask your own questions.
About the Event
The event will begin with a chance for you to have a look around the exhibition, before a discussion between the artist, Fiona Pickles, and the curator, Sammi Lukic-Scott. We’ll be talking about all of the stages of the residency and exhibition, and some of the bigger questions of what it looks like to work artistically with nature. For the last part of the event, it’ll be your turn to ask the questions! Send us through some of the things you’d like to hear about or ask when you book your place, or drop us an email at sammi@everybodyarts.org.uk.
You can take part either online or in person, and both places can be booked above as either a free place or including a donation to Everybody Arts.
About the Exhibition
Join us to take notice of nature in the depth of winter, as Fiona Pickles transforms the unwanted, unloved, unexpected and ugly into something beautiful.
From the Folde is an exhibition and residency that explores the alchemic transformation of botanics into new art forms. Imperfections in nature will be celebrated and repurposed; the unloved and unexpected become objects of beauty.
About the Artist: Fiona Pickles
After almost twenty years working in the printing industry Fiona created Firenza Floral Design (later Firenza Flowers) in 2005, designing mainly contract flowers and weddings.
In 2012, guided by the love of her garden and determined to further embrace her natural aesthetic, Fiona started growing a few herbs and flowers as well as using local, artisan flower growers, when there were very few small-scale cut flower growers in the UK.
In 2015 Fiona started a new journey embracing her love of the imperfect and unusual and at the end of 2020 she finally started working under her name.
In January 2022 Fiona fully embraced being a creative and an artist by starting her residency here at Everybody Arts. Still working with florals and botanicals, Fiona is also developing other disciplines, techniques and ways to embrace imperfection and nature.
Check out this video of Fiona talking about her work during her 2022 residency with us.
To find out more about Fiona’s work, visit www.fionapickles.com or follow Fiona on Instagram.
