Soft meadow collective

Adele Daniele, Sarah Lynch, Daniella Ruffino.

The Soft Meadow Collective are Adele Daniele, Sarah Lynch, Daniella Ruffino. Established in 2021 at Collingwood Yards, Soft Meadow Collective is currently participating in the City of Yarra’s Room To Create artist residency in the beautiful Bryant and May building in Cremorne. The collective shares an interest in plants, pollinators, biodiversity and urban ecology. They are passionate about generating new perspectives and have collaborated with fellow artists, urban ecologists and landscape architects on various projects that propel the community to reclaim and strengthen their connection to nature.

The collective has taken groups on walks in urban Naarm/Melbourne locations, shared a pop-up library, launched a zine, and hosted drawing workshops and film nights.

Spontaneous Plants Dérive

“In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and encounters they find there.” Guy Debord, 1958

Weed Dérive Zine

Soft Meadow launched the zine Weed Dérive as part of the Sustainable Living Festival 2023, which was supported by City of Yarra. It accompanied the fourth weed walk in our series in Collingwood which also featured our pop up library.

Purchase a copy here. ($10 plus postage)

Bakehouse Billboard

“Soft Meadow Collective invites the viewer to observe the wonder of nature in unexpected places, even the spontaneous plants growing out of the cracks in the pavement along Hoddle Street. A garden, whether vast or small, indigenous, heirloom, grown from seed or propagated, is a place for letting things unfold and letting go of control. A garden economy is based on non-financial growth, putting down the tools and contemplating. The garden is part of something larger, and it is tapped into the natural world, open to the elements, to the creatures that live amongst us, ecosystems in the soil beneath and the sky above. The garden is alive.”