SUSPENDED FLOWER CANOPY BLOOMS
08 Jul 2016
Artist Rebecca Louise Law has created a stunning canopy of dehydrated blooms in a Melbourne mall using more than 150,000 preserved flowers.
Artist Rebecca Louise Law is an Installation Artist based in East London, best known for artworks created with natural materials, namely flora. Now, inside Melbourne’s Eastland mall, she has created a beautiful and permanent, inverted landscape of more than 150,000 preserved flowers. Suspended above the ‘beauty garden’ — a wellbeing space housing a range of related brands — ‘the canopy’ uses dehydrated blooms from the rose, hydrangea, protea, gypsophila, statice and rodanthe species as sculptural mediums.
In the realization of ‘the canopy’, Law considered the local landscape for inspiration — all flowers have been sourced within Australia, including seasonal blooms from the neighbouring Yarra Valley region.
Spanning overhead shoppers in an extended arched configuration, patches of purple, yellow, green and white blooms are arranged. Within this retail setting, the artist intends to reflect on the relationship between man and nature explaining that, ‘the intention for my works is for people to take a moment to be brought out of themselves and the canopy is no exception. There is an innate relationship between flora and beauty, so this was integral to inspiring the development of the canopy at Eastland.’
The Canopy Time-lapse from Rebecca Louise Law on Vimeo.
