Artist Paul Harfleet revisits city streets planting pansies at the site of homophobic abuse. Each location is photographed and named after the abuse received. Explore this website for more information, connect on Twitter, on Facebook, and for further information go to: The Pansy Project Blog.
The Pansy Project recently featured in the 'Conceptual Garden' category of the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2010 where it won a Gold Medal and Best Conceptual Garden. The Pansy Project Garden represented a first time collaboration with garden designer and brother of the artist Tom Harfleet who together designed a confrontational 'shattered' structure created with slabs of concrete placed at various extreme gradients and under planted with a total of four thousand pansies intended to metaphorically reflect the disruptive nature of homophobic hate crime on contemporary society and The Pansy Project's resistance to it, for more images and context click here.
The Pansy Project Garden was supported by BNE Landscapes , AXTELL, D.W. Nye Builders Merchants, Stonescapes (01483278238), Attention to Detail (atdproperty@hotmail.co.uk) Stainless steel wire rope supplied by S3i
A special thanks to Richard Reynolds, Barbara Harfleet, Harriet Harfleet, Philip Chalcraft and all who supported the garden.