FERAL PRACTICE, SOPHY RICKETT, MARJOLAINE RYLEY, JOHN NEWLING, BRENDAN BARRY
28 May 2022 - 23 Oct 2022
Private view
Fri 27th May 2022
Hestercombe house and gardens is delighted to announce an exhibition featuring five installations of new work that engage with gardens and landscapes as sites for practice and enquiry.
Each artist, in their own way, addresses questions of meaning and ethics, community and collaboration, exploring art and sustainability in the face of climate emergency and declining biodiversity. Across a diverse range of media but with a shared interest in process and materiality, the five artists will all be presenting new work made after visits to Hestercombe and discussions with curators and gardeners.
Engaging with current debates about the generative possibility of plants and our engagement and communication with other species, the exhibition asks questions about the ethics and sustainability of an artistic engagement with the natural world, and about how we might represent our place in it. With a nod to Gertrude Jekyll’s description of her own garden as ‘my study, my workshop, my place of rest’, the exhibition will evolve and grow over the summer as each artist creates new work and/or carries out participatory workshops in response to Hestercombe.