Meadow Maker explores the meeting points between body, land and ecology. It questions the boundaries between art and everyday rural life, and considers the possibilities of a performance practice that is reciprocal, sustainable and in deep contact with my surrounding landscape.

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Through a process of gathering and bundling hay cut from a nearby meadow, both temporary habitat and future seeding ground are created. The bundles are left to slowly soak and sink back into the land, becoming further shaped by time, weather and animals.

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Drawing on Allan Kaprow’s definition of performative art as 'non theatrical' performance "in which an audience may or may not participate or even witness the act." (Watts, 2012), Meadow Maker explores hay bundling as a creative and ecological intervention in response to climate change and increasing biodiversity loss.

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Next year, we’ll lift the bundles, and in the bare patches left behind will sow yellow rattle seed, which will allow for more diversity and help keep the meadow thriving. In the meantime, maybe a hedgehog or two might find a place to nest over the coming winter.​