DECENNIUM at Hestercombe Gallery
New exhibition celebrating 10 years of Hestercombe Gallery.
Due to staff shortages in our catering team (congratulations to our Head Chef who has just gone on paternity leave), over the weekends of the 11th/12th and 18th/19th May we will be serving BBQ food only from outside our Stables Restaurant, as well as cakes, sandwiches and ice cream in our cafe. A limited menu will also be available from Monday to Friday over the next two weeks. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
1:45pm - 5:30pm | Cost: £12
This event launches a collaborative project between Hestercombe House and Gardens, the University of Gloucestershire’s School of Creative Arts and the Countryside and Community Research Institute.
TEST BED will consider ideas of systems within gardens and nature-based solutions for water capture and replanting for a more resilient future. You are invited to experience a series of experimental artworks that can be experienced in a rhizomatic way around the gardens. The event will set the scene for what might happen during the project. Being theatrical and experimental, it will be structured around ideas of how Georgian gardens were animated in the past by incorporating moonlight and sound.
The afternoon will first involve a walk and talk to experience the artwork of Zillah Bowes, Susie Olczak, Harriet P Carter, research from Alice Goodenough and Philip Reeder, sound works by Ben Hamid, Tim Land and Matthew Lovett in collaboration with Tina Hitchens and Yvonna Magda, and music from Harvey Cullis and Graham Binns. Later there will be discussions with the artists, plus Andrew Bick, Dan Keech, James Weldon, Chris Short and Hestercombe’s Head Gardener Claire Greenslade.
New exhibition celebrating 10 years of Hestercombe Gallery.
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