‘Ruth’s work explores the strength of nature and its ability to sustain existence through its ongoing lifecycles. Her particular interest is in the Plant Kingdom.

An initial response to a flower is that it is a delicate and beautiful object, something that can be picked or crushed. This may be true of an individual bloom but a plants continued cycle and relentless growth makes them the longest surviving organism on the planet.

She studies and works with the forms that she finds within a particular plant or flower, examining a specimen in detail, even dissecting it if necessary. By doing this she discovers what is often overlooked in the everyday, the remarkable forms and intricacies of plant life.

The materials she uses reflect the contradiction between the apparent delicacy of these flowers and the plants ability to sustain existence.

“In my work I reflect a childhood dream to be able to shrink in size, like ‘Alice’, to enable me to enter a plant’s elaborate structure and explore the floral architecture. The enlarged scale that I use indicates this desire, to be at one with the object of my study, to be engulfed in a flower.” Ruth Moilliet

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