The Moving Forest was a participatory artwork created for the Forest of Imagination festival, developed in collaboration with Kidical Mass and culminating at the Holburne Museum.

The work imagined the city as a forest — asking what Bath might feel like if moving through it was slower, safer, and more attuned to nature. The project created a temporary, protected route across the city, allowing participants to cycle safely from one side of town to the festival site.

Each bicycle became a small, mobile ecosystem: trailers transformed into miniature woodlands, plants carried in baskets, branches and leaves rising above frames, moss woven into helmets. Individually, the bikes functioned as fragments of forest; together, they formed a single, moving landscape.

As the group gathered and travelled as one, the forest took shape — a living, breathing mass that flowed through streets usually dominated by traffic. Moving at walking pace, the procession temporarily redefined the city, proposing an alternative vision of urban movement: collective, ecological, and human-scaled.

The Moving Forest was both a journey and a statement — a fleeting rewilding of the city, and an invitation to imagine what our streets could become.