gardens
Highlights
UITLAATTUIN (Exhaust Garden)
UITLAATTUIN explores wearable nature and mobile landscapes, challenging the concept of gardens, especially in urban settings. Through projects, exhibitions, and workshops, it pushes boundaries and promotes new ways to engage with nature in stony environments.
Grace Adam’s Art Directions: Streets and Gardens
Spring will be tantalisingly close, with new shoots and bulbs out, and whatever restrictions COVID brings, we at the Museum of Walking are determined to celebrate our streets and gardens. We are delighted that artist and educator, Grace Adam has joined as a Co-creator to share with us her enthusiasm for how artists have depicted streets and gardens through time. She
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Walking Art and Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale: from Pussy Riot to the Holy See
Venice in May. Green water, muted light, the racketing of tourists’ wheeling luggage across damp stone. Now the Biennale has opened there are new sounds, sometimes protest chants, sometimes the footsteps of marchers. Or perhaps they are old sounds. Venice: a stage for spectacle and protest since the upheavals of 1968. The clamour of a
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Eccentric outsider, colonialist, environmentalist avant la lettre
In Flora and the Baron, the team at Bowerbird Theatre tell the tale of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, eccentric outsider, global scientific powerhouse and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria’s first director. That's in Melbourne. Or, rather, the baron tells the tale himself.
Sculpture trail in the gardens of Waddesdon Manor
The gardens at Waddesdon feature predominantly marble sculptures depicting human, animal, mythological, and allegorical figures that structure pathways and focal points within the landscape. These sculptures interact with natural processes like algae, lichen growth, and insect habitation, emphasizing themes of growth, decay, and the passage of time.
Any Eden in motion
The Garden of Eden was (and is) the terrestrial paradise. Throughout the history of Western Art, there have been artists aplenty who have dealt with the subject, such as Masaccio, Hieronymus Bosch, Rubens, and more. This ideal garden was a place where nature was not inimical in any artistic rendition (by nature we understand everything
From Arcadia to Arcades
Thread and Word present From Arcadia to the Arcades. Sunday September 26th 1.30pm Thread and Word have created a unique set of 32 walking cards with prompts. Inspired by Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia, the cards may make you consider the people and places around you in a new way. These cards have been developed during
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Photo Walks in March
Pete's Photo Walks continue next month with Bournville on Saturday 7th and Jewellery Quarter on Sunday 29th. They're £10 per person and you can book here. These walks are for photographers of all types, from cameraphones to hefty DSLRs and are geared towards slowing down and looking at our surroundings. They're also themed based on […]
Events
Talking with Trees walk at Australian National Botanic Gardens
Join Canberra interdisciplinary artist Dr Tracey Benson on a locative media walkshop around the Australian National Botanic Gardens. This walk is in conjunction with Tracey’s exhibition at the ANBG Visitor Centre Gallery and focuses on walking and connecting to the trees at the Gardens. Talking with Trees exhibition explores the importance of connecting to green
Talking with Trees Exhibition, Australian National Botanic Gardens
An exhibition featuring historic and contemporary images showing how the Gardens has evolved into a site of understanding of our native flora, as well as a place of reflection, discovery and species protection. Artist Tracey Benson seeks to evoke the emotions of reverence, hope and empowerment through the use of photography, video and augmented reality.
Summer Soundwalks 2019 – Part 4: “Walkie Talkie Dream Garden”
“Walkie Talkie Dream Garden”, by Dafna Naphtali (2018) Thursday, 26 Sep 2019, 6-8PM Meet just inside the gate to East River State Park at Kent and N. 8th Street For the fourth and final installment of Summer Soundwalks 2019 we head across the East River — but just barely — to the Williamsburg waterfront, for
