Art of the Garden: The Role of the Garden in British Visual Culture

This conference, organised by exhibition curators Stephen Daniels, Martin Postle and Nicholas Alfrey, examines the impact of gardens on the aesthetic sensibility and the development of British visual culture from the early nineteenth century to the present.

The garden has long provided inspiration for artists and Art of the Garden brings together over a hundred works by artists ranging from John Constable and JMW Turner to Lucian Freud and Gary Hume. This conference, organised by exhibition curators Stephen Daniels, Martin Postle and Nicholas Alfrey, examines the impact of gardens on the aesthetic sensibility and the development of British visual culture from the early nineteenth century to the present. The first session, Nation, explores the representation of the garden as an expression of national culture. The second session focuses on gardens in relation to aesthetic and cultural discourses surrounding ideas about Nature. Speakers include Stephen Bann, Brent Elliott, Anne Helmreich, Ysanne Holt, John Lucas, Jason Rosenfeld, and Patrick Wright.

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