Swap your plants!

Alongside Matthew Beach’s exhibition The Herbarium’s Shadow, we invite you to bring a plant to San Mei Gallery with a note attached to it with a memory of that plant. Then, on the penultimate weekend of the exhibition (15 May), you will be invited back to the gallery to pick up someone else's plant! 

Please note that you do not have to bring in a whole plant, it can also be a cutting from one of your plants at home. 

We would appreciate it if you could bring your plant in a plant pot or old plastic container, attached with a note of a memory of that plant you would like to share or a poem/quote you associate with the plant. It would also be helpful to label the type of plant it is and some basic directions on how to take care of it if you know this information. 

We hope that by hosting the houseplant swap in the gallery space, we can foster conversation and build community through critically reflecting on the care for tropical and subtropical plants in domestic space. 

Please bring your plants to the gallery from the 14 April until the 8 May during gallery opening hours.*

Our opening hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 12-6pm.

And don’t forget to book your time slot for picking up a plant on the 15 May!

*(All plants to be brought in one week prior to the swap to allow time for plants to be ‘in quarantine’ so as to not risk spreading the COVID-19 virus).