a month in the garden an exhibition in the Museum of Garden History
Sarah Woodfine pencil drawing (detail)
1 to 29 July 2001
Emma Bennett Glauce Cerveira James Evans Anita Le Grelle Oona Grimes
Nicky Hodge Sophie Horton Toyoko Kato Marie-France & Patricia Martin
Helen Maurer Lisa Z. Morgan Mujeeb Astrid Pawlowitzki Jacqueline Pennell
John Stathatos Sarah Woodfine
As part of the Vauxhall Festival, the artists have integrated their work within the surroundings of the Museum of Garden History.
Emma Bennett is showing her small paintings of unusual Dutch flowers. Glauce Cerveira has created digital images of butterflies commenting on the notion of fashion, beauty and identity, while Nicky Hodge presents her series of London flowerbed paintings. Lisa Z. Morgan has installed her glass and neon flowers and Helen Maurer projects familiar garden scenes into the nave of the church. Anita Le Grelle has put her bronze flowers on stage and Sarah Woodfine takes us into mysterious fantasy gardens with her pencil drawings. Marie France & Patricia Martin show a selection of photographs from their ongoing project: Spring in the City. John Stathatos together with Gianni Burattoni and Yves Abrioux introduce their collaborative project on the Park Citron in Paris with two new images mixing photography and drawing, accompanied by a text.
Outside, in the 17th century replica garden, Jacqueline Pennell, James Evans, Sophie Horton, Lisa Z. Morgan and Astrid Pawlowitzki subtlety disrupt the formality of the space.
Oona Grimes has prepared an art trail (A Walk in the Not Garden), marked by stencils, that begins at the tomb of the 17th century horticulturalists, the Tradescants, in the museum knot garden. The route threads due south through the recent developments of Lambeth High Street, then on to Old Paradise Street, Newport Street and Vauxhall Walk to tie a final knot outside the Queen Anne pub in Spring Gardens.
The Museum of Garden History is situated in St. Mary-at-Lambeth, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 next to Lambeth Bridge. The Museum is open every day from 10:30 am to 5 pm (Voluntary admission charge 2-50, Concessions 2-00).
