V&A Dundee is hosting the only UK showing of Garden Futures: Designing with Nature. The exhibition is a collaboration by the Vitra Design Museum, Wüstenrot Foundation, and Nieuwe Instituut and highlights groundbreaking gardens by visionaries such as Piet Oudolf and Derek Jarman, alongside innovative work from leading artists, designers, and landscape architects, such as Jamaica Kincaid, Duncan Grant and William Morris.
Accompanying the exhibition is a replanting of the area outside the museum, in collaboration with Glasgow-based designers Irregular Sleep Pattern. This has been undertaken with Dundee City Council’s team of gardeners, and V&A volunteers, affording visitors a colourful and biodiverse display of greenery and flowers.
Sumptuous and colour-filled, it takes visitors on an illuminating sensory journey through key moments of inspiration and innovation in gardens and garden design, from the 20th century to the present day, and looking to the future of gardens.
On display is a collection of design objects, paintings, textiles, sculpture, interior design, fashion, drawings and photographs show how the enduring allure of gardens influences artists, writers and designers alike. Visitors will have the chance to create digital designs for pollinator-rich planting, and experience the scents and sounds of nature through interactive exhibits.
Gardening clothing, specially-designed for the exhibition, is among the items on sale accompanying the exhibition.
