‘Nature Remembered’ for Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
The poster features a variety of dried plants and seeds, some gathered during the recent Remember Nature exploratory walks around Castlefield in Manchester, others grown at home and collected during trips over the years. They have been arranged in a way that resembles something between a botanical specimen (scientific, rationalised) and what might be found in a compost heap (chaotic, transformative). These once-living organic materials are preserved and represented in death.
The title Nature Remembered is intentionally ambiguous. Is nature doing the remembering? Or is nature being remembered? Whose memory is it? I’m drawn to that tension between loss and renewal, destruction and regeneration. The work reflects a natural cycle: decay not as an end, but as a quiet beginning. Ultimately, this image-making is both an observation and a meditation, a way of looking closely at what remains, and recognising that even what appears lifeless may carry the beginnings of something new.
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