WAKEHURST: KEW GARDENS’ MEADOW-FILLED OUTPOST WITH ART & INSECTS
London’s Kew Gardens has a second site in the historic Sussex High Weald landscape, Wakehurst. It is open to the public and this summer celebrates meadows with landscape & artistic projects. Four playful projects are spread across a carefully managed landscape which not only offers a beautiful setting but is important for international horticultural sciences.
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Everybody interested in architecture and landscape has heard of Kew Gardens, its celebrated glass houses, pavilions, and world-famous horticultural collection. Kew has a sibling in Wakehurst in the Sussex High Weald landscapes, an ancient setting for a publicly accessible centre of gardens, temperate woodlands, wetlands, and meadows.
This summer, South Park ancient parkland opens to visitors for the first time. Wakehurst’s horticultural team will be adding wildflower species to the 40 acre site, supported by summer hay cutting and winter grazing. The landscape team have also reconsidered Coronation Meadow, created in 2015 as part of a national push for new wildflower meadows. Where a meadow may traditionally have a single mowed pathway through it, here there is now an interlocking maze of paths, inviting the public to meander.
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Goodbye for now Kew Wakehurst. It has been a joy and a privilege working with you! I hope our paths cross again! @wakehurst_kew@_tprojects_ #wakehurst #wakehurst_kew #outdoorart #artphotography #artinstallation
On the BBC the other day. The gods have been smiling down on us with a burst of great weather for the last 3 days of press visits, interviews and drone shoots. But I can imagine this is a project they would like because it is about a place they would love! After all, with the Millennial Seed Bank on its grounds, Wakehurst is the most bio diverse place on earth and one of the world’s great arks. Such a special place! #wakehurst #wakehurst_kew #artphotography #artinstallation #artenvironment
A segment from ITV news last night. Love this piece as it puts a focus on the challenges we face with climate change. Caring for our future, caring for our environment, understanding how we can move forward with the challenges we face. Embracing beauty. That is what the work is about and what Kew Wakehurst embodies. #wakehurst #wakehurst_kew #_tprojects_ #climatechange #artphotography #artinstallation
Gesticulating on the BBC the other day LIVE!! That was fun. But today I am free to roam the gardens with my camera. Can’t wait. Also I will get some shots of the east and west facades. There are 2 more enormous artworks which sing at different times of the day. #wakehurst #wakehurst_kew
Some more terrific press in The Times, The Daily Telegraph and Edinburgh Evening News. I am thrilled with how it has been received. Lots of visitors to Wakehurst today all enjoying the artworks, the weather and of course the glorious expansive gardens. #wakehurst #wakehurst_kew
Planet Wakehurst is open. Get up close and check out all the little details. This massive artwork célébrâtes not just the beautiful gardens, but everything behind it; the science, the research, the knowledge. Kew Wakehurst is a gem! #wakehurst #wakehurst_kew #artinstallation #artphotography
Planet Wakehurst is up and looking magnificent. Thankyou everyone @wakehurst_kew for all your work. Thankyou @_tprojects_ for curating. It has been a joy and I am thrilled with the outcome. Come visit!! #wakehurst #wakehurst_kew #artinstallation #artphotography
Some install shots from In Bloom, currently on @fotografiska.stockholm So thrilled to be a part of this beautiful spring exhibition where I am exhibiting 3 works from my Future Memories 2020 series and the video EveryNothing, a meditation on the nothing from where all life comes and to where it will return.
#fotografiska #artphotography #artexhibiton #photocollage
Details from one of my artworks for ‘Planet Wakehurst’, a huge photo montage covering the Elizabethan mansion at Kew Wakehurst, UK. Big reveal May 15th. @wakehurst_kew #wakehurst #wakehurst_botanic_garden #naturephotography #artphotography
