To Rise Again

Dryed grasses and plants anchored in clay against a plain wall.
An art installation of dry, plants attached to clay on the ground, set against a plain wall.
Dried wild plants and seed heads mounted in clay, with a plain white background.
Dried plants and grasses attached to clay in an indoor setting.

🌿 To Rise Again

An installation for Wells Cathedral (proposal)

Formed from riverbed clay, dried meadow stalks, and seeds, the work was made during a recent residency near Lampeter, where I returned to the Welsh land of my childhood. The stalks are embedded in hand-formed pebbles and rest on Welsh slate, arranged like a quiet river of memory and renewal.

The piece is proposed for a wide aisle in Wells Cathedral, where it would sit with grand marble tombs — offering a living, feminine, regenerative counterpoint to the permanence of stone.

It’s a piece about fragility, rebirth, and rootedness. And, in a way, it’s a return home.

Memorial plaques on a stone wall in Wells cathedral, with a glass-covered display at the base and decorative shields above.

This stone ledge at the foot of the tomb is my preferred location for To Rise Again. Ledge is 48cms deep and 2.5m long. The installation is 48cms deep and 155cms long.

It could also be adapted to go on one of the narrower ledges opposite this photo by laying the slates singly making a less deep but longer installation.

The piece could also fit and be appropriate in Site 14 - Niche at foot of Chapter House stairs

or Site 8 - Unknown tomb