overGrown: A Collaboration Between Artist Christopher Kelly and Designer Daniel Hayden
overGrown marks the first collaboration between artist Christopher Kelly and designer-craftsperson Daniel Hayden, a project born from Kelly’s ongoing exploration of neurodivergent experiences through visual art. This collection delves into themes of imbalance, tension, and growth, with each piece reflecting an interplay between the two creators: Hayden’s functional designs are disrupted or reimagined by Kelly’s sculptural forms in textile and wood. Inspired by what Kelly describes as “minimal excess”—where nature finds balance in seemingly disproportionate forms, like an overgrown garden—overGrown redefines familiar objects by challenging their usability and aesthetic boundaries.
In this series, Kelly envelops Hayden’s wooden furniture pieces with organic, crocheted forms, blending accessibility with a deliberate disruption that urges viewers to reconsider these everyday objects. Hayden, in turn, stretches his furniture-making practice conceptually, crafting largely sculptural, furniture-like forms that exaggerate his signature shapes while providing a new context for Kelly’s textile interventions. Together, they create pieces that appear to have been left to grow wild and untamed.
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In this series, Kelly envelops Hayden’s wooden furniture pieces with organic, crocheted forms, blending accessibility with a deliberate disruption that urges viewers to reconsider these everyday objects. Hayden, in turn, stretches his furniture-making practice conceptually, crafting largely sculptural, furniture-like forms that exaggerate his signature shapes while providing a new context for Kelly’s textile interventions. Together, they create pieces that appear to have been left to grow wild and untamed.
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We are proud to be a subscriber-funded publication with members in 185 countries. We know our readership is passionate about textiles, so we invite you to help us preserve and promote the stories, memories, and histories that fabric holds. Your support allows us to publish our magazine, and also ‘what's on’ information, and subscription interviews, reviews, and long-read articles in our online blog.
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*Magazine subscribers automatically get free access to all our online content. We send the access code by email with the publication of each issue. You will also find it on the envelope containing your magazine. Please note the access code changes every issue.*