The exhibition will run at the museum from the 10th June until the 20th July.
Details have been unveiled for The Garden Museum’s Nancy Cadogan: The Lost Trees exhibition which will go on display this June.
This new exhibition will explore the emotional, social and environmental significance of trees and what it means when they are taken from us. It is launching at the Garden Museum before embarking on a tour of the UK.
Nancy Cadogan: The Lost Trees will invite visitors to consider their own relationships with trees and the natural world, especially in light of modern development, and the lasting impact trees have on our culture and environment.
Cadogan’s new work includes 20 works of beloved trees lost and remembered through stories shared with the artist and was inspired by the felling of trees in Cadogan’s neighbourhood for the HS2 Rail project.
Explaining, the artist said: “I was struck by an extraordinary intensity of emotion and grief surrounding the felling of the trees, and a feeling of powerlessness that accompanied this. I then realized that the felling of trees affects people in communities around the country, in both urban and rural areas and wanted to explore the effects of that in my work.
In some small way, I am excited to make paintings honouring and memorialising these wonderful specimens, and allowing them and their stories to live on.
The trees put the human story in perspective.”
The exhibition will also feature photographs of the lost trees, maps of the United Kingdom showing areas where trees have been felled and stories about the lost trees from the communities affected by them.
A book is also set to be published in connection with the The Lost Trees at the Garden Museum, documenting stories and quotes from individuals who have lost trees, including essays by significant authors interested in the natural world.
The ambition for The Lost Trees is to travel to the far corners of the United Kingdom, painting, mapping and documenting people’s individual and communal stories about their relationships with trees. With each exhibition, the body of work will move and grow, with new stories, meaningful to the specific area of the exhibition space, being painted.
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