Weed Derive: Drawing Edition focuses on drawing to examine the often-overlooked flora of disturbed and neglected sites closely. It documents Soft Meadow Collective’s recent drawing workshops, which have focused on foraging and arranging weeds from gardens, laneways, and roadsides into botanical still-life arrangements. Participants engage with these spontaneous plants through drawing and observational exercises, sparking conversations and broadening perceptions of the local environment.

Soft Meadow Collective:

The Soft Meadow Collective are multidisciplinary artists Sarah Lynch, Daniella Ruffino, and Adele Daniele, who are interested in plants, pollinators, biodiversity, and urban ecology. The Collective was established in 2022 during a residency at Collingwood Yards. Currently, the collective is participating in the Room To Create Program, supported by the City of Yarra, at the Fitzroy Town Hall.

Soft Meadow is passionate about generating new perspectives, inviting conversations, and collaborating with artists, musicians, urban ecologists, geographers, and landscape architects on projects to encourage a connection to nature.

Soft Meadow has produced exhibitions, workshops, publications, public art projects, film screenings, art/plant pop-up libraries and community engaged art projects.