175 x 25 x 10 cm

A posable soft sculpture of Nereocystis luetkeana, bull kelp, made with homegrown indigo dyed kelp bio“leather”, with dried bladder wrack used to create the root like holdfast that anchors it to substrate.

Exploring seaweeds use in innovative materials, both it terms of its properties and its sustainability. As well as it’s different history’s and cultural significance’s around the world. Using edible kelps, grown in Ireland, to create the leather like material as a nod to the consumption of seaweed being a life line to Irish people during the Great Famine. Dyeing the materials with Japanese Indigo to connect to it’s use a tax during the Asuka period in Japan, as well as it’s importance in Japanese Shinto tradition.

All seaweed sourced from sustainable Irish seaweed farmers.

Kelp and bladderwrack bio "leather", aluminium wire, seacell rope, crocheted wool and cotton

(2026)

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