The Mobile Picnic Pavilion by Francis Thorburn was a portable vegetable garden that travelled around Islington's streets and parks, pulled by a merry band of performing gardeners.
Housed in an impressive greenhouse-inspired structure, the vegetable garden was transformed when stationary, becoming a picnic area where members of the public were invited to pick fresh produce to add into their picnics or pack lunches.
Thorburn's garden vehicle draws on the principles of a sustainable lifestyle in order to highlight the possibilities for social sculpture and the potential for greenspaces as place for social exchange.
The Mobile Picnic Pavilion was commissioned as part of Secret Garden Project, in partnership with Islington Council.
