A gateway grown from the Island itself.

This large-scale textile archway is stitched, stuffed and dyed with plants gathered across Portland, carrying the colours, textures and stories of the landscape within its fabric.

Samphire, fennel, Alexanders and Portland Sea Lavender are woven into its surface, alongside plants long associated with healing, dreaming and transformation. Together they create a living map of the island, traced through roots, memory and folklore.

Drawing on Portland’s many tunnels, thresholds and hidden openings, as well as the grand entrances of travelling fairs, the archway becomes a portal between worlds—an invitation to imagine what might lie just beyond the surface of everyday experience.

In folklore, thin places are where the boundary between worlds grows faint.

Step beneath the arch and enter a space where plants remember, stories take root and the familiar landscape gently shifts into That Other Place.

Meet the Artist

Drop in and chat to artist Ella Yolande about this installation and her work see HERE