WOOOSH FLOWER SHOW
A collaboration with Dundee Community Gardens Network, commissioned as part of Art Night UK's Inwith programme for its 2023 festival in Dundee.
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To celebrate Dundee City Council's decision to rebrand "Miller’s Wynd Car Park" as "Miller’s Wynd Park", Wooosh orchestrated a flower show competition to take place on the night of the festival. The event brought together 'Dundee’s fierce array of community gardens to battle it out, head-to-head in the Wooosh Flower Showdown". Entries from 14 gardens across the breadth of the city were wheeled in a procession of barrows to the Wooosh car park, where there were free bananas and beers, a participatory judging and prize-giving ceremony, and the drawing of a collective flower drawing, which was pasted to the gallery wall following Wooosh's traditional format.
Press:
MIDSUMMER BLOW OUT - MAP Magazine.
Art Night: Dundee’s House Party - Frieze.
Nocturnal festival Art Night takes a trip to Dundee, with a rave in a car park and a show in wheelbarrows - The Art Newspaper.
All images: Wooosh Gallery in collaboration with Dundee Community Gardens Network, WOOOSH FLOWER SHOW (2023). Commissioned by Art Night. Photography by Ben Douglas.