News location:

Canberra Today 13°/16° | Friday, March 29, 2024 | Digital Edition | Crossword & Sudoku

Garden takes to new shapes

HISTORIC Lambrigg garden, which often hosts Open Gardens Australia’s plant fair, will host the inaugural Sculpture in the Garden event, showing off the work of Australian artists.

Historic Lambrigg blends intimate formal spaces with wider views
Historic Lambrigg blends intimate formal spaces with wider views
There will be 27 other local, national and internationally recognised artists’ work on display, including Canberra-based ceramic artist Bev Hogg, long-standing artist Michael Le Grand, Murrumbateman-based steel sculptor Lee Tunks and ANU foundry manager Nick Stranks, who has exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea.

Works will be exhibited in a wide range of media, from Corten steel, woven wire, concrete and aluminium to stone, glass, silicone, acrylic and found objects. All works will be available for sale.

 “Spade”, by Gulargambone-based artist Alison Dent, who uses found steel to create cut-out forms of farm life.

“Spade”, by Gulargambone-based artist Alison Dent, who uses found steel to create cut-out forms of farm life.
In the stunning Lambrigg garden, mature deciduous trees sweep down towards the Murrumbidgee River, framing a garden that blends intimate formal spaces with wider views and provides a superb setting for sculpture.

Works of varying scale will create a dialogue with the spaces surrounding them, suiting both large and small gardens and corporate collections, says curator Neil Hobbs.

Lambrigg is on Tidbinbilla Road, Tharwa. Sculpture in the Garden is on the weekend of 19-20 October, 10am to 4.30pm. Entry is $15 (under 18 free) Pay on the day, prebook online at opengarden.org.au or call (03) 5424 8061. The event will support Boundless Canberra and Kids Cancer Centre.

Who can be trusted?

In a world of spin and confusion, there’s never been a more important time to support independent journalism in Canberra.

If you trust our work online and want to enforce the power of independent voices, I invite you to make a small contribution.

Every dollar of support is invested back into our journalism to help keep citynews.com.au strong and free.

Become a supporter

Thank you,

Ian Meikle, editor

Share this

Leave a Reply

Related Posts

Gardening

Blue flowers brighten a drab plant

"The sky-blue flowers are most interesting with a little frill on each of the petals that make up for this drab looking plant," says gardening writer JACKIE WARBURTON of common chicory.

Follow us on Instagram @canberracitynews