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Exhibitions

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

Five artists — Bren­dan Bar­ry, Fer­al Prac­tice, John Newl­ing, Sophy Rick­ett and Mar­jo­laine Ryley — present new works explor­ing art and sus­tain­abil­i­ty in

Dates
28/05/22 – 23/10/22
Region
Somerset
Price
Free
This exhibition brings together new projects by five artists that engage with gardens and landscapes as sites for practice and enquiry, addressing questions of meaning and ethics, community and collaboration and 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.