'Garden Open Today: 300 Years of Garden Visiting' will consider why we love to look at other people’s gardens – revealing the many pleasures, fashions and aspirations that lead us onto a stranger’s lawn. The exhibition will bring together stunning paintings and drawings showing how gardens such as Stowe, Stourhead and Ranelagh were enjoyed by the public. Works of art by the French artist Etienne Duperac, the Dutch artist Rysbrack and the French landscape engraver Francois Vivares will be on display alongside souvenirs, the very first guidebooks, and letters requesting entry to gardens such as those for Gertrude Jekyll’s Munstead Wood. Photographs, posters, ‘keep off the grass’ signs and accounts of stolen cuttings, unwelcome visitors, glorious sunshine and miserable rain will reveal the many pleasures and frustrations of garden visiting today.
Admission:
£7.50/£6.50 concessions/£3 Art Fund
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 10:30 – 17:00
Saturday and Sunday: 10:30 – 16:00
Closed the first Monday of the month
End of year degree shows for landscape architecture and garden art and design students at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Private view: Friday 8 June (6pm – 8.30pm)
Show continues: Saturday 9 June until 15 June (10am – 4pm)
For more information, contact:
Jackie Leahy
The School of Art, Architecture & Design
Leeds Metropolitan University
B602
Broadcasting Place
Leeds LS2 9EN
Tel : 0113 812 4081
Email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
A selection of work from the individual design projects of students graduating from the MLA and BA(Hons) / MSc professional programmes in landscape architecture.
The second annual Forum for the Central Scotland Green Network looks at the health and vitality of our major towns and cities and draws inspiration from green infrastructure projects in London, New York and closer to home.
Speakers include:
The event is free.
For more information: www.centralscotlandgreennetwork.org/Latest-Events/forum-2012.html
With legislation intended to make Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) effectively mandatory later this year, the 2012 National SuDS Conference aims to provide practical information and consensus on all aspects of SuDs in response to calls from experienced practitioners.
For more information and to book, go to: www.sudssource.org
The conference will explore human behavior and experience in both the built and natural environments and will focus on the relationship between research, practice and policy and how this can significantly impact on socially and environmentally sustainable development.
The Conference will also feature a jointly organised thematic event with the Council for European Urbanism: 'Evidence-based Design: a promising new basis for progress on real changes in the built environment'.
There is a discounted fee for those registering before 31 March 2012.
For more information, visit: www.iaps2012.org.uk
'London Landscapes' consists of work of the final year MA and Diploma Landscape Architecture graduates with representative work from the final year BA (Hons) programme and the Certificate Landscape Design.
For more information, contact Robert Holden (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or click on the link below.