Grounds for Design
Exhibition
Contemporary responses to Garden Arcadia12th May - 24th July 2005
The Fourth Annual Show at MoDA
This show provides the visitor with a range of contemporary responses to Garden Arcadia from the ornamental to more absurd, spread across the lawns, hanging from trees, tucked away in the woods. The garden - a place of display and delight, is undoubtedly uppermost in the minds of these artists with features, such as, Garden Shed, Classical Gnome, Sundial, Wind Chime, Kaleidoscope, Contoured Tree, Voting Booth! As Philip De Bay and James Bolton state in their book Garden Mania: And to intensify the gratification of the senses, what better than to array this paradise regained with ingenuous ornaments to amuse and beguile the visitor ...
The Art of the Garden
The first garden, Garden of Eden, locates the garden as a symbolic space, an embodiment of ideas. Where else but this exhibition can you find the memorial, monumental, classical, metaphysical, spiritual, botanical, floral, ecological, and political, all in one space! The garden as a symbol of human and earthly transience is the underlying theme here, making it simply the place for relaxation, cultivation, and contemplation. The show year was full of dynamism brought together an eclectic group of artists. This successful formula has been repeated under the curatorship of Jolanta Jagiello, who has delivered another outdoor show worth the trip to the green and leafy spaces around MoDA.
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 | Propagation Unit by Marcus Quintal Artist Statement |
 | Twist 1 by Helen Giles Artist Statement |
 | TSUNAMI by Toko Harris Artist Statement |
 | Drawn to Attention by Elaine Arkell Artist Statement |
 | About War !! by Claire Tanner Artist Statement |
 | Inland Soul at Sea by Sonja Van Kerkhoff and Sen McGlinn Artist Statement |
 | Birdocracy by Daniel Lehan and Steve Johnson Artist Statement |
 | Le Gnome Classique by Steve Hines Artist Statement |
 | Nostalgia by Sharon Forsthye Artist Statement |
 | Unveiled by Deborah Gardner Artist Statement |
 | Park Benches by Jolanta Jagiello Artist Statement |
 | Columns for the release of Emotion by Silvia Clare Artist Statement |
 | Hortus Conclusus Kaleidoscope by Pippa Jameson-Evans Artist Statement |
 | Outside/In by Darryl Moore Artist Statement |
 | Tintinnabulm by Susi Martin-Taylor Artist Statement |
 | Hoap of Tree by Marilyn Collins Artist Statement |
 | Statue by Joan Edlis Artist Statement |
 | Capuchin Sundial by Hilary Sleiman Artist Statement |
 | A Wood Cut by Derek Curtis Artist Statement |