Some wonderful works of art were on display at Wakehurst this afternoon (Thursday, July 25).
Kew's wild botanic garden in Ardingly held its first-ever community art exhibition in the Millennium Seed Bank, which is home to 2.4 billion seeds.
Participation manager Harri Oliver thanked everyone for coming to the event, which was a collaboration between Wakehurst, East Sussex College, Grove Garden (Haywards Heath), Art on the Line and Southern Rail.
Kew's wild botanic garden in Ardingly held its first-ever community art exhibition in the Millennium Seed Bank, which is home to 2.4 billion seeds.
Participation manager Harri Oliver thanked everyone for coming to the event, which was a collaboration between Wakehurst, East Sussex College, Grove Garden (Haywards Heath), Art on the Line and Southern Rail.
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00:00We're probably all here today because my team launched a year ago and our role is to engage with charities and community groups in the local area to get people visiting us who might not traditionally visit us or might experience challenges to visiting us.
00:16We've designed lots and lots of different programmes, so we've got everything from dementia wards, social prescribing projects, we've done research with people who are visually impaired to see what their experience of the gardens are.
00:28And the other thing that we have done is this wonderful community art competition. You will probably remember that we asked you to explore your connection to your community, connection to nature and to also celebrate the season of spring.
00:43I think what's been incredibly inspiring about this art competition, as you can see from the variety of entrances, is that much like the diversity of the Men and Sea Bank, much like the diversity of nature, we've had a real diversity in the type of art that you have all submitted.
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