Pleasance
Plants, soil, Plastic pots timber, fixings, synthetic fabric, acrylic paint, chairs.
2024 Art Gallery South Australia
Inspired by the meandering, tranquil flow of the nearby Karrawirra Parri (River Torrens), Pleasance is an immersive architectural folly conceived of as a
collaboration between Fallow + Superbloom. Located in the courtyard sculpture garden of the @agsa.adelaide Art Gallery of South Australia, Pleasance is a living artwork that extends from the marquee into a living artwork, where plants and sculptures frame intimate moments of connection. Designed using unexpected combinations of species, this plant-forward experience invites the viewer to pause and revel in a journey through a rich tactile field of colour, beauty and awe.
Fallow is a critical spatial practice that focuses on site-sensitive, immersive presentations in public space through sculpture, installation, performance and education. A merging of the practices of Amber Cronin and Tom Borgas, its field is the ecological space of arts research and practice– a thinking-through-doing that seeks to reframe an experience of reciprocity and connection as a definitive way of being in the world.
Super Bloom is an emerging plant practice that brings plant design and expertise for dynamic living beauty and biodiversity in urban spaces, landscapes, gardens, and creative projects. They work across the plant spectrum, from thought leadership and planting design in major landscape and garden projects, to art + plant projects, to supporting landscape and project professionals by bringing the ‘plants’ to clients and teams, training and design workshops.
