Rebecca Louise Law

Rebecca Louise Law is a British Installation Artist, best known for artworks created with natural materials, namely flora. The physicality and sensuality of her work plays with the relationship between humanity and nature. Law is passionate about natural change and preservation, allowing her work to evolve as nature takes its course and offering an alternative concept of beauty.

Her work is very much site-specific, with each installation tailored to the environment it is presented in.

Life in Death (Kew Gardens, 2018):

The exhibition Life in Death showcases her personal collection of plants and flowers, dried and preserved over a six year period. It is her most intricate large-scale artwork to date and examines our relationship with flowers and plants and how they are used, particularly through rituals. Kew’s Herbarium specimens, including Egyptian garlands made with dried flowers dating back to 700BC, which inspired Rebecca to make this work, are also on display. I like that the work is interactive, with the audience being able to touch it and walk right through and become immersed in this world she has created.

Outside: In (Times Square, 2015):

This work in particular closely relates to my own. She speaks about wanting to bring the freedom of childhood and natural tranquillity into urban spaces by bringing nature in, hence the title of the installation. I have also read about her very detailed processes in how she picks the flowers (in this instance ones that dry the best) and how she treats them, which is very similar to my own process in that it is almost a mixture between a science experiment and art.