RHIZOME
RHIZOME is a collaborative study of the plants that make up our local ecology. Through seasonal workshops, events and experimentation, RHIZOME embraces the ideologies of horizontal growth, lateral thinking and the interconnectedness of all things.
RHIZOME is a project co-created by Hayley O'Byrne (Carmel Floral) and Jaime McCuaig (GUNNAR).
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VEIL
A RHIZOME Workshop
with STILL/ ALIVE
September 27, 2026
TORONTO
VEIL is a single day workshop focusing on late season materials. Working as a group, participants will construct a freestanding sculpture, inspired primarily by the vine. Materials are chosen for their ornamental and directional qualities, allowing us to explore and revere the shape of a cascade. A waterfall.
Light, seasonal, thematic snacks will be included. All tools and materials will be provided, and participants will take home their very own professional-grade floral secateurs.
RHIZOME workshops use materials harvested from local sources, with a focus on invasive species harvested in accordance with their life cycles. In this context, “invasive” is held as a shifting designation — one that invites consideration of adaptation, naturalization, and the porous boundaries between belonging and exclusion.
RHIZOME treats arrangement as a mode of inquiry. Through acts of cutting, gathering, and composing, we will engage in questions of authorship, collaboration, beauty, and they ways in which form emerges from mutual entanglement. The resulting works are not fixed objects but temporary conditions - dense, unstable, and alive to their materials.
HEDGE
A RHIZOME Workshop
May 23 -24, 2026
TORONTO
HEDGE is a two-day study in boundary, density, and the social life of plants.
Working with seasonal materials, participants will construct a diptych of two large-scale floral installations that reference the hedge as both form and concept. Existing as both barrier and habitat, the hedge is a threshold that demarcates space while simultaneously holding it.
Across two sessions, we will approach this form at different scales and orientations:
On Day 1, a large free-standing and site-responsive installation considers the hedge as landscape: horizontal, continuous, and sprawling.
On Day 2, composed along a table, we will reimagine the hedge as an intimate and interior environment. The magnified cross-section, re-authored by a study in subtlety, gesture and restraint, invites us to shift from a macro to micro perspective.
RHIZOME workshops use materials harvested from local sources, with a focus on invasive species harvested in accordance with their life cycles. In this context, “invasive” is held as a shifting designation — one that invites consideration of adaptation, naturalization, and the porous boundaries between belonging and exclusion.
RHIZOME treats arrangement as a mode of inquiry. Through acts of cutting, gathering, and composing, we will engage in questions of authorship, collaboration, beauty, and they ways in which form emerges from mutual entanglement. The resulting works are not fixed objects but temporary conditions - dense, unstable, and alive to their materials.
