Bio Alice McCabe is a multi-media artist creating floral installations, paintings and performances often with foraged and found materials of an ephemeral nature. 

Integral to her practice as a floral artist is to create both sustainable and conceptual designs drawing attention via flowers and their meanings to point to other contexts alongside their beauty. With over a decades experience of working as a florist she set up her floral art business Alice McCabe Flowers – creating installations bordering on artworks and assisting contemporary artists wishing to work with flowers – in 2016 followed by Metafleur – a design studio offering sustainable floral designs for large scale events and commissions – in 2020.

Recent projects include the creation of large-scale floral displays for an arena event launch of the BBC’s Blue Planet II, One Planet: Seven Worlds and Perfect Planet, all at M&S Arena, Liverpool 2017, 2019 and 2020, and flowers for World Oceans Day at National Maritime Museum in 2019 and 2020. Perfect Planet was awarded 3rd place at ICE Awards for sustainable event design in 2020. Recent exhibitions of newly developed floral tapestry works have been held at Ken Space, Windows135 in 2021 and Glasscloud Gallery and JGM Gallery 2020. 

Significant collaborations include setting up the Permaculture reading group with Amy McDonnell during the first lockdown 2020 and The Cultivar Residency, sponsored by The Museum of the Flat Earth, Fogo Island project ‘Adventitious Routes and Rhizomes’ exploring political displacement with Amy Ash in 2019. She has created flowers for artists Anish Kapoor, Raqib Shaw, Haseeb Ahmed and Livia Rita’s “Avant Gardeners Collective.”

For a further glimpse of bouquet action visit Crabtree & Evelyn's portrait of my work with British Flowers and painterly approach to arranging in The beauty in a bouquet

All art featured on this website is my own, as are the photographs. If you would like to see more please visit: www.alicemccabe.com or www.metafleur.com