74 Trees was based on a 2014 tree survey commissioned by Lewisham Council as part of their plan to demolish Tidemill Garden as part of redevelopment of Deptford town centre. The survey identified 44 trees by name but many were grouped together as one, while some trees were unidentified.

In 2018, the Council falsely claimed that only 36 trees would be felled, so I counted and labelled the trees to refute the Council's misleading claims. The installation was accompanied by a reworking of the original survey in the form of a folded A4 document issued to visitors. In 2019 the entire garden and its surrounds was flattened and around 124 trees were lost. See Projects: Tidemill. 

Tagwort : A wildflower growing on, 'tagging' a wall, pavement or other built structure.

Sue Lawes worked with botanist Nick Bertrand from Creekside Discovery Centre to identify the wild flowers growing in the pavements and old walls in Deptford and selectively 'tag' some of these plants with their Latin and English names.

Climate change is increasing the number of new species from around the world that continue to colonise the area. We aimed to challenge, embrace and transform the concept of 'weeds' and the wild in the city. Each wild flower and its common and Latin name stencil tag was photographed and plotted on a Google map. See Projects: Tagworts