Wilder + Tate
We approached Tate with the idea of wilding the grassy area on the riverside of Tate Modern, creating more abundant planting and using their staff garden to run horticultural workshops.
Wilder have held a number of staff workshops including sowing wildflowers, building hugelkultur beds, making seed bombs and re-purposing bathtubs from an exhibition on climate change as planters. We have planted substantial areas of the riverfront lawn at Tate Modern with wildflowers, and we have written biodiversity action plans for Tates Modern, Britain, Liverpool and St Ives. Wilder created a wildlife pond at Tate Britain, and worked with Buglife to monitor insect life at the pond.
We supplied Tate with three olive trees for the Yoko Ono exhibition, which will be donated to the community after the exhibition is finished.
Bella Sereno
Environmental & Sustainability Manager
Tate
“We’re really only at the start of our journey with Wilder, but we’re off to a brilliant start. Both Helena and Leanne have been very helpful, engaging and knowledgeable: the perfect balance of creativity and hands-on approach, providing us with so many fantastic ideas.
Wilder are quick in communication, providing drawings and quotes, and are flexible in adapting to our needs and requirements. We’ve managed to run some very successful gardening club sessions with our staff. The latest project was upcycling some of our exhibition waste materials into planters, and we’re now looking forward to introducing our first staff garden pond which will be made from scratch.
They’re a fantastic team to work with, and we’re looking forward to working with Wilder in 2023 and seeing what great projects we can do together.”
‘The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.’
— Pablo Picasso