Comments on: Trafalgar Square as a garden https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/trafalgar-square-as-a-garden/ Gardenvisit.com Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/trafalgar-square-as-a-garden/#comment-370 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:43:08 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=748#comment-370 It is more usual at present to contemplate art in the context of a garden [http://www.artinagarden.co.nz/people.php]

Or to find art that functions as comment on garden/s….[http://www.geelonggallery.org.au/exhibitions/view/id/75/exhibition/nicholas-jones-the-garden-of-forking-paths]….http://things.sansumbrella.com/2008/08/gallery-hopping-sf/#more-72%5D…however loosely….[http://wandering-ninox.blogspot.com/2008/05/narcissus-garden.html]

The garden is yet to be fully appreciated as art. More installations please!

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/trafalgar-square-as-a-garden/#comment-369 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:18:29 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=748#comment-369 Yes to the evergreens! I wonder if the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery has an area of flat roof with a service lift which could be used to store and grow plants for changeable garden displays in Trafalgar Square. It looks, from the aerial photograph, as though there is such a space: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.5088961&lon=-0.1285449&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2&search=national%20gallery%20london . On occasion, the north side of Trafalgar Square could also function as an outdoor art gallery. The satellite photograph must have been taken during a demo. It is interesting to see the textural effect of crowd use in the square: one could mistake it for planting!

]]> By: Marian https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/trafalgar-square-as-a-garden/#comment-368 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:19:33 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=748#comment-368 Evergreen hedges in moveable, discreet planters might be more Italianate. They could be moved and configured to make different spaces outside the Nat Gallery and in the square below, alternately recreating the vistas and allees of Trentham or encircling a new art exhibit as a focus.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/trafalgar-square-as-a-garden/#comment-367 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:49:42 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=748#comment-367 Artists continue to make interventions in the urban environment that give us new perspectives on the relationship between humans and cultivated gardens and landscapes. [I have adapted this from another quote…but do not have the full reference!] I love your visual essays here on perception, space, memory, colour, form, texture and human scale!

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/trafalgar-square-as-a-garden/#comment-366 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:16:32 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=748#comment-366 ps. Looks like a beautiful day in London today on the webcam. Enjoy!

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/trafalgar-square-as-a-garden/#comment-365 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:33:49 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=748#comment-365 I really LOVE both your suggestions! In fact, the idea that it could be either/or and both delights me…(very postmodern?) Making the square a place for subtle but not too subtle (slightly oversized) reminders of classical gardens is fantastic!!

]]> By: Henry https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/trafalgar-square-as-a-garden/#comment-364 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:39:08 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=748#comment-364 Personally, I think they make great use of Trafalgar Square. Even if the contemporary art they scatter or raising awareness concerts are not to my taste, I always stop on my bike to see whats happening.

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