The Mossy Carpet is an artwork inspired by moss and made by many people! Thousands of individually made pom-poms and textile tufts adorn fleecy felt from Dartmoor, creating a vibrant beautiful mossy carpet.

Each moss-like pompom celebrates someone’s small attempt to make the world better for all of life.

Within the artwork, we’ve created electronic sensors and stuffed textile tardigrades that play recordings of participant’s voices, so as you stroke the artwork, you hear about the things that other people are doing.

You are invited to help us make this epic new moss-inspired artwork. Let’s celebrate and honour everyone’s steps towards a better world!

Carbon looms large, it is the giant of our times. On our own, we can feel powerless, but when we work together we can Bury the Giant! We want this artwork to give people inspiration, comfort and hope.

Creative activities help us to slow down, have better conversations, imagine new things, have fun and feel more connected.

So far we’ve learnt so much on our journey exploring mosses, we know there’s even more to find out. We encourage you to start by looking closely at real mosses for inspiration as you join us in making this epic artwork.

To date, over 7,000 people have helped to make 20 metres of The Mossy Carpet. We hope to get tens of thousands more people involved, sharing what they do, learning what works, making connections, replicating the best ways forward. We are heading for more than 50 metres of carpet by June 2024, and 100 metres in time for an installation at an iconic venue to coincide with COP30 (the United Nations climate conference) in November 2025. We’ll be adding more milestones as the project grows and evolves.

Everyone! We want individuals, families, schools and community groups to get involved - all ages, backgrounds and from all over the U.K and even further afield. There are many ways to join in, pick from the menu above to find out more.

We hope this artwork will be inspiring, comforting, hopeful, fabulous and friendly, showing that together, we can make something magnificent. 

Art and Energy are based in Devon but as The Mossy Carpet grows we hope to reach out across the UK. Visit our events page to see where you can find the Mossy Carpet. Get in touch if you have ideas or opportunities for us to share the Mossy Carpet with your community.

Post to us:

The Art and Energy Collective, PO Box 961, Exeter, EX1 9DF.

We have local drop off points in Exeter & Plymouth. Check out The Mossy Make section in the grid for further details.

You are welcome to drop your creations to us at any of our events.

Check out our ‘Commission us’ page to find out more about how the Art and Energy team can help you to start creative conversations celebrating steps towards a brighter greener future.

We’re enjoying visiting schools to share the project with pupils, staff and parents. Your school can be part of making this epic new artwork sharing action and inspiring creativity for a brighter greener future!

More than 50 schools joined in with our previous project Moths to a Flame, we hope to introduce even more to the wonderful world of mosses.

Whilst developing The Mossy Carpet we’ve worked with pre-schools, primary, secondary, further education and SEN settings. We understand that every group is different and encourage you to pick and choose from the activities in the grid above to best inspire your pupils.

Check out the Invite Us In page for more info on us visiting your school

You may also like to Run Your Own Sessions.

Yes! We’ve developed the resources and project so that you communities further afield can join in without needing us to.

Check out the Run Your Own Session page for some suggestions on how to structure the activities. Please

If you would prefer a member of the Art and Energy team to give you a helping hand then check out the Invite Us In page for more info.

This project will continue until November 2025, so please do send in your messages and mossy makes to add to the carpet.