This exhibition brings together aspects of Jenny Wiggins’ work (Studio TW-017, Trinity Wharf) that involve the preservation of of unwanted plants or weeds and recognition of the beauty and importance of hedges.

The work involves collecting, growing, pressing and preserving plants, combining them together on aluminium (with the occasional fly or bee). One of the larger pieces Hedge No1 was made by compacting short hawthorn hedge onto a sheet of aluminium that had been grown for three years - pressed between two sheets of glass.

"I come from long family of farming ‘hedgers’, all but one dead now, and this show is also to commemorate their unassuming contribution to our landscape." - Jenny Wiggins, April 2025

About the artist:
Jenny Wiggins is an artist who works across many disciplines. Jenny has exhibited widely within the UK with work in private collections worldwide. Her work is centred around preserving and saving plants and other modest creatures such as bees, flies frogs - presenting and preserving them, sealed on metal, wood, or paper. The simplicity of her source material continues her interest in ‘the accidental poetry of the ordinary’. jennywiggins.com

Follow Jenny on Instagram @wigginsjenny

Thames-Side Studios Lounge is located on the second floor of Unit 0 and open to all studio holders and by appointment.

For non-studio holders please contact the artist studio@jennywiggins.com to arrange an appointment.