The artists in this exhibition use gardens as a medium, both as a site of action and as a space for reflection. Through their work, they explore the social and ecological processes that shape gardens, inviting us to reconsider how these processes operate and how they might evolve in the future. In doing so, they draw attention to the ways in which gardens shape our behaviours, our environments, and our relationships with our co-inhabitors, including interspecies co-existence with plants and animals.

The works presented here propose gardens as a way of thinking about and responding to the growing challenges of climate change, food insecurity, and shifting models of agriculture. They also reflect on changing ideas of what the city is and what it might become, and on the evolving relationship between urban and rural spaces.

This exhibition brings together artists for whom gardens form an integral part of their practice. They approach gardens as places for experimentation—sites where artistic, ecological, and social questions can be tested and explored. In this sense, gardens become both material and metaphor: environments that prompt us to ask new questions, imagine alternative futures, and engage in what might be called a form of blue-sky gardening.

Curated by Clair Joy.