Wonderland

At Meadow Hall in Sheffield there's an amazing exhibit on show. Made possible through a collaboration between Tony Ryan, Scientist at the University of Sheffield, Trish Belford, textile Designer, Interface, University of Ulster and Helen Storey, artist and designer.

Wonderland Exhibit

It's aim, to draw attention to & find creative solutions to the disposable, polluting & wasteful nature of our culture. Here you see dresses suspended from the ceiling made of a soluble material. As they were slowly lowered into huge glass water filled fishbowls the material dissipated creating streams of textured ribbons, a rainbow of colours that eventually dissolved harmlessly into the water. At the botanical gardens they also showed the process of how plastic soda bottles made of a similar material began to degrade & turn into plant food. Very cool! After Sheffield the exhibit moves to Belfast.