So I was planning to nod approvingly at the art and feast my eyes on the plants. Not being into glass that much, I'd never even heard of this chap.
But to my surprise, the sculptures were a revelation! Organic and compelling, they matched up beautifully with the setting. I even sat down and watched the 'making of...' video that was running in a loop in a little auditorium set up in the Princess of Wales Conservatory - twice!
Sadly, although I took lots of photographs, I can't seem to find any more of them on my PC than this one, which I must have copied out of its folder and sent to someone a few years later.
But the book is available for sale, and the Kew Website maintains an archive of the exhibition. And if it's ever repeated, I shall make sure I go again.
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A little time back Sky Arts ran some programmes on this.
I would certainly travel down to see a repeat showing. The plants would be best ranked as prime viewing and should the sculptures surpass expectations, there's a bonus.
Ouch , that's not good.
Made me go and check mine , still there thank goodness
But 2005 , that long ago , well those 8 years just whizzed by
"A little time back Sky Arts ran some programmes on this."
Oooh, will have to look out for a rerun.
"Ouch , that's not good. "
No, I'm usually so organised too.. :( The only thing I can think is that I lost them when I had a hard drive malfunction a few years back...
I'm very lucky to live in the Pacific Northwest region of the US. Dale Chihuly is a local here and has an incredible glass art museum just a little ways down the coast from me. About a year ago, they opened a whole garden of his work at Seattle Center. It's incredible. The way he evokes the sense of organic matter from his glass is incredible.
At my alma mater, I used to sit beneath the huge Chihuly chandelier in the art building and just stare up at it.
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