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Ruthie was commissioned by Red Nile Project as part of their Factory Nights series of unique commissions. Ruthie created giant knit and crochet flowers, the project and the choice of flowers was inspired by the Woman’s Weekly sponsored cottage garden on the original Stoke-on-Trent National Garden Festival Park site in 1986 which Ruthie learned about during the Red Nile Factory Nights visit to the park in August 2011.
The work was installed on a hill in the festival park overlooking Morrison's and the retail park on Saturday 14th April 2012 and explored using the giant blooms to engage the public with the park by encouraging the viewer to look up at the flowers and wonder what lay beyond. Ruthie also worked with members of the public here at Airspace Gallery and on the festival park site to make mini crochet, knit and pompom flowers to stage a secondary installation in the park.
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