Kate Friend

There Are Always Flowers For Those Who Want To See Them
Text by Emily LaBarge, 2025
Published alongside our spring exhibition with Kate Friend, There Are Always Flowers For Those Who Want To See Them is a series of botanical works made at Vatican-approved Marian apparition sites (sites of alleged visions of the Virgin Mary). Each work comprises a photograph of a single flower found growing on sacred ground. Over the course of seven months, Friend travelled to four such sites in southern Europe, seeking flowers at each location.