SHE_SEES is a collaborative art project by Erna Janine and Emilie Sandy portraying 23 women in the UK maritime industry through portrait photography and handwoven natural textiles using our handspun hemp. It challenges maritime stereotypes and highlights women’s lived experiences.
Allan Brown is a textile artist, hand spinner and maker. He is best known for ‘The Nettle Dress’ an extraordinary garment made entirely by hand from foraged and self processed fibres.
A Hemp Collier at the The Sustainable Angle Innovation Hub, transformed discarded nitrous oxide canisters from East London and our hemp into wearable jewellery. Highlighting hemp’s ability to cleanse soil and symbolising cycles of pollution and regeneration.
Gus Farnes created The Dream Shepherd, a large-scale sculptural guide and hound installed outside Chapel Hall Arts. Made from raw hemp and mortar, the work explores themes of transition and consciousness, connecting with Suffolk’s heritage of sustainable cultivation.
Ivan Morison’s The Reapers, commissioned by the Sainsbury Centre in collaboration with Orleans House Gallery, is a site-specific installation responding to Why Do We Take Drugs?
Comprising three towering, haystack like forms made from locally sourced materials including our hemp, the sculptures are designed to grow, decay, and compost challenging permanence while exploring farming, chemical intervention, and regenerative practice.