This moveable and edible installation by artist collaboration Sorensen & Byrne was commissioned as part of the Mayor’s Thames Festival 2009 Feast on the Bridge programme on Southwark Bridge. The artists recreated a garden in a redundant rowing boat.

The tiny space was planted up with a bonanza of lovely fresh fruit and vegetables from the Kentish countryside including hop plants and an apple tree.

Suspended from a bold A-frame structure and operating like a pendulum the work was broadly grounded in the history of the area and lent shape to what the artists think cities of the future may look like.

Focussing on the ideas and paraphernalia of games of a bygone age, Bagatelle is a curious and compelling work that invites viewers to reflect on control, change and conventions in relation to class and colonial heritage.

This is a selection from Sorensen’s BA FA degree Show 2005 at Central Saint Martin.

Games of chance and opportunity continue to fascinate her. In particular, people’s belief in the possibility to control the seeming randomness of such games by acquiring skill.

The artist’s MA FA Degree Show installation work entitled Sound Nutrition involves an earth plot of wheat crops and aircraft sounds with wheat seed seemingly growing at the sound coming out of the two speakers.

Sorensen’s newer farm project installations do not seek to reproduce earlier studies or to provide practical solutions. The artworks are mainly concerned with ideas of growing.

This mini art installation for the New Pretenders Exhibition at Barge House Gallery, London, 2011 presented elements of quasi-scientific methods and props that come from  a proposal once made that playing music to plants could promote growth.

Small speakers placed close to the containers play several different sounds simultaneously for the plants. Visitors to this farm installation could pick up the strains of Beethoven’s symphony no. 6 amongst others.

This critical garden installation in an empty soon to be demolished upstairs flat was a humorous piece with a nod and wink to illegal activities (the choice of cabbage, a universal foodstuff, embodies the multicultural nature of the area today). The work displayed rows of supermarket bought shrink-wrapped cabbages set on top of flower pots like a production line/mini allotment with drip irrigation and glow light.

The aim of this work was to highlight the need to include in future plans for the area opportunities for residents as a community to safely grow their own food.