Carboniferous Garden

Beauty of the grotesque

Together with New York based artist Mark Dion we were awarded an Art for Architecture Award to facilitate a collaborative project at the Earth Centre Doncaster.  Our idea was to reveal the history of the former colliery site and be inspired by the landscape back in deep time when coal was formed. We proposed to create an artificial marsh landscape -a lush primeval scene of swamp oaks, swamp cypresses and horsetails which takes the visitor into the world which existed at the time of the formation of coal seams. At the centre of which reached by a boardwalk will stand a folly like grotto structure by Mark Dion.