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Biography
Graphic Rewilding is the collaborative public-art practice founded by Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker. Bringing together Borowski's background in large-scale curation and Baker's nature-based studio practice, the duo transforms architectural and urban settings through bold botanical imagery, colour and scale.
Their works move between murals, sculpture, projection, animation, printed glass and site-responsive installations. Plants, flowers and small natural forms are enlarged into exuberant environments, a method the artists describe as "microscopic maximalism". Their projects invite people to notice natural detail again, even within dense commercial and civic spaces.
Across commissions in London, New York, Barcelona, Rome, Houston, Shanghai and the Forest of Dean, Graphic Rewilding uses public art to create moments of wonder, rest and reconnection. The practice is grounded in a belief that visual contact with nature can support individual and collective wellbeing.
Practice
Graphic Rewilding begins with close observation and hand-drawn natural imagery, then expands those forms across architecture, public space and moving image. Scale is central: flowers, insects and plant structures become walls, columns, seating, projections and spatial interventions.
The duo works across physical and digital formats, selecting materials and technologies in response to each setting. Their work is maximal in colour and presence, but its focus remains intimate, encouraging audiences to pause and notice the complexity of the natural world.
MOLTEN Perspective
Graphic Rewilding makes the natural world impossible to walk past.
Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker enlarge drawn flowers, leaves and insects until they occupy whole facades, columns, walkways and rooms. The result is deliberately maximal, and it works because the drawing underneath it is precise. Their own term for the method, "microscopic maximalism", captures the move from close botanical observation to architectural scale, and it gives commercial and civic spaces something they rarely offer: a reason to stop and look closely.
For public realm clients, cultural venues and festivals, the practice offers reach across a wide range of formats, from printed glass and murals to sculpture, projection and animation. The work is generous and immediate rather than didactic, and it carries a clear intent: to reconnect people with nature and support wellbeing in the places where they already spend their time.
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Themes
Nature · Biodiversity · Ecology · Public Space · Place · Community · Transformation
Commissioning Information
Suitable for — Public Art Commissions · Museum & Exhibition Contexts · Gallery Contexts · Cultural Institution Commissions · Festivals · Civic & Public Realm Projects · Educational Programs · Architectural Commissions
Industries — Arts & Culture · Government · Museums · Education · Tourism · Architecture · Public Realm
Project Types — Commission · Exhibition · Temporary Installation · Permanent Installation · Public Art Program · Projection Mapping
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