A special mini-exhibition which recently opened at Auchterarder Library is reimagining fashion for the wild.
Through funding from the UK Government Prosperity Fund, Tayside Biodiversity Partnership commissioned Edinburgh-based environmental artist Natalie Taylor to create a new work raising awareness about the importance of nurturing wildflower meadows.
Workwear for Pollinators is a small but striking collection of re-imagined workwear designed to be worn while tending meadows and inspired by the pollinators who depend on them. This collection reimagines garments as tools for ecological care—functional pieces created for those restoring biodiversity one wildflower at a time. Drawing direct inspiration from nature's own palette, the designs bloom with vibrant wildflowers, soft grasses, and the delicate shapes of rarely seen insect species.
The apron and boilersuit were created in collaboration with Auchterarder Churches Together Craft Group, Parkdale Care Home, New Rannoch Day Centre and participants at The Workshop in Perth, and feature contact prints of Scottish wildflowers gathered in Summer 2024, and lifesize handmade pollinators - knitted bees and printed butterflies, dragonflies and moths.
The exhibition launched at Auchterarder Library on Saturday 5 July (UK National Meadows Day) and is on display there until Wednesday 9 July, then touring to the AK Bell Library in Perth between Thursday 10 and Friday 18 July, and Blairgowrie Library from 18 July to Friday 1 August. The AK Bell Library will also host a free Pollinator Patch drop-in workshop on 10 July from 1pm to 3pm where participants can create their own pollinator critters. For more information, visit the Culture Perth and Kinross website at: https://www.culturepk.org.uk/event/mini-craft-session-woolly-meadow-critters/.
Climate Change & Sustainability Convener, Councillor Richard Watters said: "Appropriately opened on UK National Meadows Day, this exhibition reflects the importance of redeveloping our native meadows for the local environment and biodiversity.
"The project has been a real community effort with local groups working alongside the artist Natalie Taylor to create the workwear and I hope it and the allied events will encourage increased awareness of habitat loss and how we can all play our part to change this."
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