The Vineyard

About us: Art as Invitation

Our pioneering work in sustainable design has earned widespread recognition. For years we have been thought leaders and advocates for circular economy principles, driven by a deeper conviction that only a genuine cultural renaissance can rise to meet the climate and biodiversity crises of our time. And so we have turned to art.

Our pieces are not warnings. They are not laments. They are invitations - bold, generous, and deliberately hopeful - to imagine what it looks like to be truly great. Each work hopes to spark a conversation rather than close an argument, asking not what went wrong but what magic kindness, courage and tenacity can deliver.

We are stepping into a new role: not away from our values, but further into them.

Always

An invitation from Elvis & Kresse - Made from 2,190 pieces of individually cut, hand-woven, rescued leather. 350cm x 132cm

Some think plastic pollution is insurmountable. We don't.

Our invitation is woven from rescued leather, leather saved from landfill, given new purpose, and made to last. Our subject is made from the opposite: designed to be used once, discarded, and forgotten. It may just be the most littered ‘branded’ item of single use plastic in the world. You can find these, or their remnants, in our parks, roadsides, rivers, oceans - and in our brains, breasts and bloodstreams.

Carbon credit

Introducing Carbon Credit: An invitation from Elvis & Kresse Made from 3,773 pieces of individually cut, hand-woven, rescued leather. 375x235cm

Carbon is the building block for all living things.

It is also the black gold that is still fueling our industrial and digital revolutions.

In 2015 we started to imagine what Elvis & Kresse would look like if it were redesigned to be regenerative. Not Net Zero but Regenerative. How could we be irresistibly, joyfully, exponentially good? The challenges that we set ourselves were to: clean more water than we use, generate more renewable energy than we consume, increase biodiversity and sequester more carbon than we emit.