Garden updates
In March 2019 Julia Dwyer, Sue Ridge and Andrew Thomas gave an illustrated talk at the Art Workers Guild in Queen Square about the Embroidered Minds collaboration, the ...
Valerian, Bromide and Queen Square
The plant that attracted the most interest from the thousands of visitors to our Embroidered Minds Epilepsy Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2018 was Valerian. Its sta...
Award Winning Garden
Winning a Silver Gilt Medal the Embroidered Minds Epilepsy Garden was the smallest Show Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in May. But it had a big impact - with crow...
Up The Garden Path
The ceramic tiled path in the Embroidered Minds Epilepsy Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show is an integral part of the scheme and leads viewers to the focus of the ga...
Chelsea Flower Show 2018
The Embroidered Minds Epilepsy Garden will be one of the Artisan Gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May 2018 as part of the continuing Embroidered Minds collaborat...
Chasing Shadows
As part of the Embroidered Minds Collaboration, Leslie Forbes wrote an amazing imagining of the intersection between the world of Britain’s first neurological hos...
Re-imagined Tulips
Thinking about a performance she was giving with Leslie Forbes for a ‘Silvering the Cerebrum’ conference, Sue Ridge re-imagined the tulips at Kelmscott Mano...
Sex, Drugs & Epilepsy
Illuminated with art by Caroline Isgar & Sue Ridge, author Leslie Forbes & biographer Jan Marsh gave a dramatised reading of the novel for the William Morris So...
1876: Chequered History
Jenny Morris developed epilepsy in 1876 and from then onwards, despite her early promise would be relegated to the margins of society; the strain of this inevitably told ...
Mapping the Morrises
Gardens of the mind
Forbidden Love
Facts behind the fiction