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Explorations |
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Aeneas Wilder (11 artists in all) |
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Middleton, National Botanic Garden of Wales [south west Wales] |
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October 2003 |
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On 5th July 2003 an exhibition titled 'Explorations' opened at Middleton, the National Botanic Garden of Wales, in collaboration with Cywaith Cymru. Artworks Wales and supported by the Arts Council of Wales.
The initial approach to Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales came from Siân Griffiths, Middleton’s Arts Officer, who enthusiastically embraced the idea of a rolling programme of exhibitions, residencies and events. Initial discussions led to the idea that rather than a ‘sculpture’ exhibition, artists should be invited to intervene in the garden itself. There was an overwhelming response to our advert in A-N, and after much debate eleven artists were selected to develop proposals for the site.
The artists were invited to visit the Garden, to investigate and respond to the site, to make work, which would be particular to the place. They went further than creating objects of pleasure within a picturesque landscape, and dealt with environmental issues and landform, with class and land-ownership, and with the structure and property of plants. Many of them seized this opportunity to push the boundaries of their own practice and struggle with their ideas and the materials. All of them saw “Explorations” as a challenge and an opportunity to intervene and question the traditional perceptions of landscape and gardening.
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The eleven artists were:
Aeneas Wilder
Angharad Pearce Jones
Buster Simpson
Craig Wood
Philippa Lawrence
Richard Harris
Ruth Moilliet
Susan Dalladay
Tim Davies
Tim Pugh
Trudi Entwistle
The exhibition closed at the end of October, but to see the full exhibition catalogue please click on the National Botanic Garden of Wales link on the commissions front page.
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‘Untitled, installation no. 102’
Aeneas Wilder makes installations, which he then destroys. For this exhibition, he built a group of towers, about five metres high, which opened up towards the top like elongated trumpets, or tree trunks severed just below the canopy . Each tower was constructed from small pieces of eucalyptus wood, reclaimed from the floor of a university science laboratory. By placing the group in the centre of the Great Glasshouse, in the shallows of the pond, visitors had a choice of viewpoints. From below, the towers were reminiscent of giant organic life forms growing up from the water, or viewed from above, the interior of the structure could be seen and individual pieces of wood considered as a part of the whole construction.
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