The City Centre: Rebecca Louise Law - City Garden

The City Garden is a floral installation held at the City Centre at the Guildhall. Working together in partnership is the City of London Corporation and artist Rebecca Louise Law to create this installation. It forms as part of the first public art installation at the City Centre. The exhibition is sponsored by The London Wall Place Partnership. The exhibitions runs from 23 April to 25 September 2016.

34 gardens in the City were used to garner the 33,000 flowers used for the exhibition and was inspired by the 200 open spaces in London. The space occupies that were installed fresh and kept up with entwined copper wires. The installation is accompanied by 2 films.

Apart from triggering my hay fever in sneezing several times, I could not help but marvel at the beauty of the natural process of it withering away as it dries out and preserves. I couldn’t say whether all the 33,000 were intact but it did look slightly more depleted to images I’ve seen of it beforehand. Funnily enough, Ed who came with me recognised the artist as being one of his friend’s friend.

There is an app available that has a trail of all the 34 gardens with information on each one. The app is available on Apple App Store.

The following are images taken on 16th July 2016: