Broome, Kirstin

28/09/2009

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Kirstin Broome comes from San Diego, California but has now lived in the UK for the past 3 years. She works for Kew Gardens as a fundraiser. She has been working with a sculptor Tony Gubbas who has created a series of seed pods for them, to highlight their Millennium Seed Bank Project on the plinth. The project aims to draw attention for the need to store seeds from around the world. So far they have conserved 10% of the world's seed they are aiming for 25%. A huge amount of the world's food comes from only 10 seed crops, so it is a very important project. Talked about the global warming and other issues and the affect they had. The seed pod sculpture was a 'devil's claw' seed, a very large seed which has been around for many thousands of years which hooks itself onto animals such as camels