Why do we garden? What draws us to a place like Trebah?
The biologist E.O Wilson argued that these hobbies represented a link to our early ancestors and demonstrated an innate need to connect with other species. Laura's reverential depictions of plants make manifest that desire, and in increasingly unstable times, the artist asks us to consider our own connection with plants and the idea of shared kinship with them.
Laura Ribbons is an artist, curator, facilitator and environmentalist based in East Sussex. Her work explores our relationship with plants, the ways in which we connect with them and how they alter our experience of place.
Her practice asks what we can learn from plants and considers how we co-exist across human and non-human communities. Laura’s work celebrates the strength, resilience and mythology of plants, representing a desire to find solace and resolution in nature.
Her practice constitutes a continued dialogue around ideas of survival, hope and well-being. She has exhibited across the UK and internationally, with a number of works in private collections.
This exhibition is free to view in Trebah's gallery space
