Saturday 16 September 2017

RA Summer Exhibition Gardens

Unless you count the front court, there isn't really a garden at the RA, as such. Perhaps in some secret member's space. But inside, especially in Room 1, there is a lot of gardening going on.

rabbit rabbit rabbit leg person (dead) wild mixed border eerie practice room
needlepoint gawkers treeferns and overgrowth fragmented narrowboat

Other beauties not photographed: Rocks Landscape, Seize the Night, and Pale Green Hydrangea.

This year the architect's room was concentrating on services, utilities facilities. This meant fewer models and more diagrams, not to its detriment. The mysterious and ?unrealised Edgveg project and a gorgeous 1920s pencil sketch of a pumping station provided gardenish interest.

edgveg 1 tree people edgveg 2

Elsewhere we found pictures of concrete spaces, garden thrones made of decommissioned arms, and a fancy birdbox (it's not a birdbox), among other things.

changing spaces quietness and elimination decomissioned chairseat
cathie's snake modern art birdhouse outside in 2

Other gardening pieces not photographed include a sinister Terrarium,  a bewildering mural, an exploration of garden statuary hubris, and a Magrittesque allotment shed.

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