RHS Garden Show – Butterfly Tree
An AR butterfly experience where visitors wake sleeping butterflies from a tree installation.
AR development / creative collaboration
Partners: RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, Jackie Clarke
Outputs: AR installation, Five-day festival experience
For RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, Visioning Lab created an AR butterfly experience. Visitors used tablets to "wake" sleeping butterflies by hovering over images on a tree installation. The butterflies were drawn in VR by artist Jackie Clarke and animated to appear on screen during the five-day festival.
Festival installation
A physical tree installation featured images of sleeping butterflies. AR brought them to life when visitors hovered tablets over the tree.
Artistic collaboration
Artist Jackie Clarke drew butterflies in VR. These drawings became the basis for the animated AR butterflies, preserving the gestural quality of her mark-making.
Interactive nature
The installation invited gentle interaction — visitors "woke" butterflies by approaching them, creating a moment of connection between physical installation and digital animation.