Exhibition
The Garden of Delights on Earth
Opening: 7 Jun 2024, 12:00 - 18:00
7 Jun 2024 – 30 Jun 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 46 ASHFIELD STREET
- London
England - E1 2AJ
- United Kingdom
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Garden of Delights on Earth is an Arts Council England-funded group exhibition that invites viewers to imagine a sustainable future through the power of art.
About
Henrietta Armstrong, Cecilia Bengolea, Xenia Bond, Lottie McCarthy, Sae Yeoun Hawng, Jane Hoodless, Linda Pearl Izan, Seulgi Lee Kang, Lana Locke, Kate Mcdonough,Hannah Lees, Portia Yuran Li ,Martha Orbach, Raksha Patel, Divya Sharma, Sophie de Stempel, Tatiana de Stempel, Faye Wei Wei, Diyou Yu
The Garden of Delights on Earth features 19 women and non-binary artists whose work addresses the need for action during the current climate crisis. Bringing together artists who work with live performance, film, print, textile, sculpture and installation, the artworks on show offer a new lens with which to tackle environmental sustainability in this Anthropocene epoch.
Comprising of a series of workshops including; art, gardening, sculpture, storytelling and making a documentary film.The public programme explores the ways in which material culture and collective expression intersect, inviting participants to make and create artworks on-site, for example, there will be ‘still life’sculpture using food donated by farmers.We will be looking at the multidisciplinary nature of art, social gatherings around food.As well as, food as a performance and what we might feel about the scarcity of food as the climate changes.
The exhibited artworks explore ecosystems in practical, material and visual practices, through things that are familiar and haptic, such as cotton, earth and food.How collective pleasure, desire and joy —our emotions and senses — play a critical role in our resistance against climate change.
The exhibition’s curator, artist Tatiana de Stempel says:“These Artists are curious in reimagining how we live in the context of the climate emergency, exploring new ways of imagining the world, our place in it and our relationship with the environment”.
As climate activist Tori Tsui tweets:“I think the beautiful thing about climate action is that everyone has a role, whatever that looks like to you. So many people are afraid of not being good enough, but right now we need everyone, imperfectly."
Clips from Cecilia Bengolea's films -https://www.instagram.com/p/CHk_CBolzPO/?igshid=NzZhOTFlYzFmZQ== https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu_ICExlqy1/?img_index=1
Seulgi Lee Kang's film clip https://www.instagram.com/p/CUW5JI7IlW8/?img_index=2.
To book tickets go to - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-garden-of-delights-on-earth-tickets-877430236457?aff=oddtdtcreator
The exhibition running 7June - 30 of June daily from 12 - 6 pm.
Closed Monday
Free Entry