Inside Out - The Art of the Garden
21 July – 10 September
Installations of a kitchen, chest of drawers and
bathroom
Continuing our 'Breaking the Boundaries' season, Inside Out – The Art of the Garden will use flora, planting and installation to transform the gallery into a living garden, by landscape artist Sarah Bevin.
Sarah's work will portray a man-made space overrun by nature and will put familiar domestic settings to unfamiliar use, to create evocative and mysterious surroundings, giving the impression that small rooms in the gallery were incomprehensibly abandoned long ago.
Plants and vegetation will fill the gallery space and willows and flowers will grow from the ceiling. The work will sit alongside, and in direct contrast to the formal gardens of Walpole Park, an example of a natural space whose appearance has been shaped by man.
Paths through the gallery will take visitors to a number of scenes within the garden and projections, sound installations and objects will complement the natural, living exhibition.
The exhibition will evolve throughout its run, meaning that visitors who come early on should encounter a very different exhibition if they return at the end of its run in the early autumn.
Sarah Bevin says
"I am attempting to present the power of nature in a formal setting. While the exhibition will show the garden as a work of art, we are also trying to show that it takes a lot of physical effort to create that art. After experiencing the garden, I would love visitors to leave with a sense of having made a magical and humorous, yet thought provoking journey."