Polly Brannan

21 August 2025
4pm – 6pm
Ark: Cliftonville Cultural Space

A pop-up poster-making and planting workshop at the Mobile Growing Unit, led by OSE’s Artistic Director Polly Brannan as part of OSE’s 2024-26 Civic Programme Home is where the garden is. 

This workshop took place outside Ark and was open to local children and their families, who joined us to learn how to take plant cuttings and shared their own gardening knowledge. They planted these in pots that they decorated with abstract images inspired by organic forms. 

With Polly, participants were invited to make posters responding to the questions:

What is a home? What does it mean to have roots? What connects you to home? What does a garden mean to you? Who/what is a garden for? How are you connected to plants?

Typography used in the posters was co-designed by Despacito Art School with Polly and OSE’s in-house graphic designer George Harding, who also designed the base poster motif, in response to Despacito’s designs.

The posters were exhibited as part of Despacito Art School’s 2025 Summer Exhibition Home is where the garden is at Roland Ross gallery on Northdown Road in Cliftonville.

This Civic Programme event is part of OSE’s two-year thematic cycle Home is where the garden is – find more events: https://openschooleast.org/home-is-civic