For Allen & Overy 2015 Artbeat program, Fabiane Lee-Perrella worked with Year 9 students from Bethnal Green Academy alongside pro-bonus A&O staff engaging all involved in an intimate new experience that encouraged debate surrounding natural structures, diversity and plurality through making.

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Basketry is frequently perceived as a process tailored to create vessels to contain things. It hasn’t always been like that. As a process that sprung up spontaneously on every part of the planet, basketry has historically been employed to also contain livestock, people and land.

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"The ancient techniques of basketry pre-date those of pottery and some textile weaving and have long been used to make many other things besides baskets – for example houses, boats, bridges, clothing, footwear, weapons, furniture, toys, jewellery, fish traps and animal pens.” Shane Waltner, Pratical Basketry 2012

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However, in contemporary basketry artists and makers are not confined to local materials and immediate needs. Our sense of place today is rather more connected to a global landscape and its multicultural expression and identity.

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The goal of About Eggs and Baskets project is to engage project participants and exhibition’s visitors at Allen & Overy’s foyer in a friendly first-hand experience motivated by novel interpretations of basketry and making techniques using a mixture of traditional and unconventional materials.