Carers Rights Day marked by installation of paper flowers

An art installation featuring 40,138 handmade paper flowers is on display to mark Carers Rights Day.

Each of the flowers, at the Galleries shopping centre in Bristol, represents an unpaid carer in the city. Carina Andrews, 28, a carer herself, created the project to highlight the work of unpaid carers.

She made around 15,000 of the flowers in the installation, with others crafted by volunteers.

The flowers are now on display in a mock-up of her parents’ living room, featuring a downstairs bed, commode and boxes of medication.

Carers Rights Day, taking place tomorrow, brings organisations together to help carers know their rights and learn how to access help.

Carina has been a carer for her mum and dad since she was five.