Centuries of Australian Garden Style
September 2nd 2010 03:45
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Richard Aitken
Link: www.mup.com.au/
New Exhibitions Showcase Centuries of Australian Garden Style
Adelaide will showcase more than eighty rarely seen botanical themed works including oil paintings, watercolours, lithographs, drawings, plans and lavishly illustrated books from 14 October with two magnificent exhibitions presented as a joint project at the Adelaide Botanic Garden and at Carrick Hill.
The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide will host The Garden of ideas in the Santos Museum of Economic Botany and Carrick Hill will host Lost Gardens of Adelaide at Carrick Hill in Springfield.
The exhibitions will be held from 14 October through to 27 February 2011.
The exhibits are drawn from the collections of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide Library, The Hayward Bequest at Carrick Hill, the State Library of South Australia, State Library of Victoria, the University of Melbourne, Buda historic house and garden at Castlemaine, State Records of South Australia, the Barr Smith Library, and the Art Gallery of South Australia and significant private collections.
Curated by architect and historian Richard Aitken, the exhibitions explore the theme of how the past can inform the future.
The exhibitions coincide with the launch of Richard Aitken's new large format book The Garden of Ideas - Four Centuries of Australian Gardening which contains many of the spectacular colour prints and lithographs shown in the exhibitions.
Art Gallery of South Australia Director Nick Mitzevich will launch The Garden of Ideas exhibition at the Adelaide Botanic Garden on Thursday 14 October.
Nick will also launch the book The Garden of Ideas in conjunction with the exhibition. ABC TV's Gardening Australia presenter Patrick John will open the Carrick Hill exhibit The Lost Gardens of Adelaide on Friday 15 October.
The Garden of Ideas exhibition tells the story of Australian garden design from the imaginings of the late-eighteenth century to the challenges of gardeners in the twenty first century. The exhibition looks at national and international design trends and the horticultural hopes and ambitions of a young nation. It follows the change in attitudes from colonialism to the urbanisation of our cities and illustrates how social practices and popular culture has impacted Australian garden-making. Containing a rich of fusion prints, paintings, sketches and manuscripts the exhibition will continue to tour to Melbourne and Sydney in 2011 and 2012.
Lost Gardens of Adelaide examines some of Adelaide's most significant lost gardens and the part they played in Adelaide's gardening history.
The exhibition will include rare watercolours by ST Gill, and William Tibbits as well as photographs, plans and drawings.
Contemporary photographs by Mick Bradley of selected sites will show what now replaces many of the lost gardens.
The exhibitions are not so much as a sentimental view back, but a way of tracing the history garden design in Australia and looking at how lost gardens can inform us about the future challenges of climate change and adversity. It provides insight into the experiences and ingenuity of gardeners in Australia over three centuries.
Richard Aitken said, The Garden of Ideas show cases the ideas underpinning different styles of Australian gardens, while Lost Gardens of Adelaide focuses on our local heritage of garden making - both exhibitions present and interpret ideas that go to the core of Australian society and culture - that go beyond a white picket fence to discover a vivid history of Australian garden design.
Richard Aitken is a Melbourne-based architect, curator, and historian. He has prepared conservation plans for many of Australia's most significant historic gardens, including the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. His recent publications include The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (2002), Gardenesque (2004). Botanical Riches: The Stories of Botanical Exploration (2006).
The Garden of Ideas - Four Centuries of Australian Style is published by Melbourne University Press and retails for $64.99.
Adelaide will showcase more than eighty rarely seen botanical themed works including oil paintings, watercolours, lithographs, drawings, plans and lavishly illustrated books from 14 October with two magnificent exhibitions presented as a joint project at the Adelaide Botanic Garden and at Carrick Hill.
The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide will host The Garden of ideas in the Santos Museum of Economic Botany and Carrick Hill will host Lost Gardens of Adelaide at Carrick Hill in Springfield.
The exhibitions will be held from 14 October through to 27 February 2011.
The exhibits are drawn from the collections of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide Library, The Hayward Bequest at Carrick Hill, the State Library of South Australia, State Library of Victoria, the University of Melbourne, Buda historic house and garden at Castlemaine, State Records of South Australia, the Barr Smith Library, and the Art Gallery of South Australia and significant private collections.
Curated by architect and historian Richard Aitken, the exhibitions explore the theme of how the past can inform the future.
The exhibitions coincide with the launch of Richard Aitken's new large format book The Garden of Ideas - Four Centuries of Australian Gardening which contains many of the spectacular colour prints and lithographs shown in the exhibitions.
Art Gallery of South Australia Director Nick Mitzevich will launch The Garden of Ideas exhibition at the Adelaide Botanic Garden on Thursday 14 October.
Nick will also launch the book The Garden of Ideas in conjunction with the exhibition. ABC TV's Gardening Australia presenter Patrick John will open the Carrick Hill exhibit The Lost Gardens of Adelaide on Friday 15 October.
The Garden of Ideas exhibition tells the story of Australian garden design from the imaginings of the late-eighteenth century to the challenges of gardeners in the twenty first century. The exhibition looks at national and international design trends and the horticultural hopes and ambitions of a young nation. It follows the change in attitudes from colonialism to the urbanisation of our cities and illustrates how social practices and popular culture has impacted Australian garden-making. Containing a rich of fusion prints, paintings, sketches and manuscripts the exhibition will continue to tour to Melbourne and Sydney in 2011 and 2012.
Lost Gardens of Adelaide examines some of Adelaide's most significant lost gardens and the part they played in Adelaide's gardening history.
The exhibition will include rare watercolours by ST Gill, and William Tibbits as well as photographs, plans and drawings.
Contemporary photographs by Mick Bradley of selected sites will show what now replaces many of the lost gardens.
The exhibitions are not so much as a sentimental view back, but a way of tracing the history garden design in Australia and looking at how lost gardens can inform us about the future challenges of climate change and adversity. It provides insight into the experiences and ingenuity of gardeners in Australia over three centuries.
Richard Aitken said, The Garden of Ideas show cases the ideas underpinning different styles of Australian gardens, while Lost Gardens of Adelaide focuses on our local heritage of garden making - both exhibitions present and interpret ideas that go to the core of Australian society and culture - that go beyond a white picket fence to discover a vivid history of Australian garden design.
Richard Aitken is a Melbourne-based architect, curator, and historian. He has prepared conservation plans for many of Australia's most significant historic gardens, including the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. His recent publications include The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (2002), Gardenesque (2004). Botanical Riches: The Stories of Botanical Exploration (2006).
The Garden of Ideas - Four Centuries of Australian Style is published by Melbourne University Press and retails for $64.99.
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