IN THE EXHIBITION GALLERY

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: A LIFE AT GREAT DIXTER

Until Sunday 12 September 2010
Entry included in Museum Admission
(£6 /£5 concessions /£3 Art Fund Members /Free for Under 16s, Friends & Carers of disabled visitors)

Our current exhibition is a fascinating retrospective of the late Christopher Lloyd: horticulturalist, writer and one of the gardening world's great characters.

Born in 1921, Christopher Lloyd lived and worked for most of his life at his family home, Great Dixter. It was at Dixter that he, through his adventurous changes and characteristic use of colour, created one of the world’s best loved gardens. His work in the gardens informed and inspired his distinctive writing, published in national press and numerous books, which made him a household name and the most engaging plantsman of his generation.

Bringing together personal objects from Christopher’s home, recollections from his friends and colleagues, his writing and gardens, the exhibition pieces together a picture of the man behind the iconic garden. Eight of Christopher's friends and colleagues have contributed to the exhibition, giving their memories and viewpoints on him and his work — including Beth Chatto on her memories of Christopher as a cook; Andrew Lawson on Christopher's unique views on colour; Anna Pavord on her friendship with Christopher and Stephen Anderton on Christopher's childhood and love of botany. These different perspectives on will give visitors the chance to explore Christopher Lloyd’s public persona and his private interests and enthusiasms and gain a unique appeciation of one of the 20th century's most influential gardeners.

Read Anna Pavord's article on the exhibition, from The Independent on Saturday 3 April.

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At Great Dixter
An Exhibition of Painting by Michael B White

Great Dixter House & Gardens plays host to internationally known local Sussex Artist Michael B White. The exhibition of his gorgeous and lush works, inspired by the gardens of Great Dixter House & Gardens, will include oils, watercolours, pastels, charcoals, serigraphs, etchings, monoprints & 24ct gold signature plates. Works include a naughty and amusing etching entitled -'Nude Model with Perfectly Trimmed Bush at Great Dixter'.

"Michael B White reveals his own idiosyncratic and warmly generous view of things: with an equal generosity of spirit he invites us to share in and celebrate the sensuous pleasure that he takes in his artistic world."
Stephen Calloway. Curator of Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Vist the Great Dixter website
Great Dixter House & Gardens, Northiam, Nr Rye, East Sussex, TN31 6PH
August 1st - 15th August 2010. Tuesday - Sundays 11am - 5pm.

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Coming soon...

GOING DUTCH

Tuesday 5 October to February 2011
Entry included in Museum Admission
(£6 /£5 concessions /£3 Art Fund Members /Free for Under 16s, Friends & Carers of disabled visitors)

Discover how the Dutch Wave hit Britain’s gardens in this new exhibition at the Garden Museum. In the 1990s a new style captured the imaginations of our country’s garden designers; 'The Dutch Wave' was based on ecology, on habitat planting and perennials, and it revolutionised garden design in Britain. In Going Dutch, the Garden Museum looks at the careers of two dutch designers, Henk Gerritsen and Piet Outdolf and investigates their influence on contemporary designers both in Britain and worldwide.

IN THE MAGAZINE SPACE

PHOTOSYNTHESIS:
DIGITAL BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION
By Niki Simpson
Monday 24 May to Wednesday 25 August

A visually striking exhibition of ground-breaking digital botanical images by Niki Simpson. Each image is an intricately detailed and accurate illustration based on digital photography, but containing scanning electron micrographs, flatbed scans, computer drawings and scanned, hand-drawn work.

Niki’s unique work is now held in several public collections and she holds RHS Gold Medals for both her botanical watercolour painting and for her digital illustrations.

Niki says of her work ‘Using the impact of full realism, I want to show plants alive and kicking – to portray them, neither laid out lifeless like corpses, nor flattened like the pressed versions of herbarium specimens… I feel that powerful, informative images can be a key way to draw non-plant people to take a closer look; to encourage them to go into and beyond the image, and so take a step towards developing that understanding. I hope my images go some way to achieving this end.’

Entry is free with Museum Admission
(£6 /£5 concessions /£4 Art Fund Members /Free for Under 16s, Friends & Carers of disabled visitors)

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Coming soon...

INTERNATIONAL GARDEN PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR EXHIBITION

Thursday 2 September to Sunday 10 October
Entry included in Museum Admission
(£6 /£5 concessions /£3 Art Fund Members /Free for Under 16s, Friends & Carers of disabled visitors)

Winning and highly commended entries for the annual International Garden Photographer of the Year exhibition will fill the Magazine Space. The exhibition will include the 7 category winners from the 2009 competition.

Find out more about the competition and winning images.

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Coming soon...

LONDON ALLOTMENTS - A CITY HARVEST

Friday 15 October to Sunday 28 November
Entry included in Museum Admission
(£6 /£5 concessions /£3 Art Fund Members /Free for Under 16s, Friends & Carers of disabled visitors)

Edwina Sassoon’s photographs bring Harvest Festival to Central London; from giant Pumpkins to bottled Runner Beans, the exhibition is a celebration of plots and produce and of the creativity and individuality of the city’s allotmenteers.

For several years Edwina has been exploring the city’s allotments resulting in “The Three Year Allotment Notebook” written with Joanna Cruddas, and published in August 2010 by Frances Lincoln.

You can read Joanna Cruddas' blog here.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2010

The painter Charlotte Verity is our new artist in residence. Our garden will be her subject for this calendar year. She started in January in the snow. Her exhibition scheduled for spring 2011 will give an insight into our garden through her closely observed drawings and paintings.

Charlotte studied at the Slade under William Coldstream. Her most recent solo exhibition at Browse and Darby gallery in 2007, was entitled London Garden. We would like to thank the Cocheme Charitable Trust for generously sponsoring the residency.

For further information please visit www.charlotteverity.co.uk or contact info@charlotteverity.co.uk / 07850 067854.