Botanical Boys Exhibit for Chelsea Flower Show

Freelance Industrial Design

Between November 2022 and May 2023 I worked as a freelance designer and consultant for Botanical Boys to produce their exhibit for the 2023 Chelsea Flower Show.

Working with the Lead Designer on the Project, Trudy Ruane, I constructed 3 human-sized Terrarium sculptures that were displayed outside the exhibit. The sculptures were intended to show the life cycle of terrariums, with misters that worked on a regular timer to imitate the water-cycle terrariums naturally develop, and concealed lights shining down to imitate the small amount of light terrariums need to survive.

The white outline of the sculptures imitates the reflections of light in the glass jars terrariums would normally be made from. The flora chosen to be planted in each sculpture are themselves the types of tropical plants that would thrive in terrarium style conditions.