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Flags of the Forest & Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand – Exhibitions

Acclaimed Somerset based artist Fiona Campbell brings a second exhibition with a free community workshop to the Seed Creative Popup at Angel Place Shopping Centre in Bridgwater.

The first week of the Easter holidays 2025

Flags of the Forest Exhibition

Open 8th – 13th April 2025

Alongside the artwork, Fiona will be running a free drop-in workshop on Saturday 12th April, 11am-2pm at the Popup. Be inspired by the installation and enjoy a relaxed, creative space where you can let your imagination wander. The workshop will entail weaving, wrapping and hand-stitching using a combination of recycled textiles and found plant debris to make mini soft hangings.

Suitable for ages 6+ (children accompanied by an adult).

No need to book – just drop in and join the fun!’

Flags of the Forest

Open 8 – 13 April 

Explore the beauty and resilience of nature with Flags of the Forest, a stunning installation of reclaimed and botanically-dyed fabrics combined with wood, metal, and other found materials. These eco-flags, rich with texture and meaning, celebrate the biodiversity of woodlands and the hope for a thriving natural world. Visitors can walk among these soft hangings and hard lines, experiencing the interplay of art, sustainability, and sound through an optional soundscape by Ushara Dilrukshan, adding another layer to this immersive experience.

Eco Sculpture workshop

Fiona Campbell

About the artist

Born and brought up in Kenya, I’ve been living and working as an artist, educator and curator in Somerset for 25 years. I create mixed media assemblages, blurring boundaries between sculpture, drawing, textiles and installation. Rooted in the notion of life’s interconnectedness, tentacularity, and transformation, my work focuses on environmental concerns, particularly human exploitation of nature. My use of recycled, discarded and found materials relates to waste, our relationship with matter, nature, and ourselves. My labour-intensive processes are a form of suturing, artivism, care and repair, giving abandoned objects new life.

 Alongside, I run workshops and courses, collaborate and curate large-scale community art projects involving a wide demographic.

I am a member of Royal Society of Sculptors. I have an MFA, was an Ingram Prize finalist ’21, recipient of a Gilbert Bayes Award ’19, and received a Red Line Art Works Award ’19 for environmental installations.

Curated projects include: As Old as the Hills, ’24, The Gleaning, ‘22, Inch by IN:CH, ’21, B-Wing,’19, and step in stone, ’15).  All integrate environment, culture and community.