Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival

Out of focus snowy urban community garden with in focus snowdrops, white text in handwriting type which reads:

The Queen's Park Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival Exhibition
Queen's Park Nomadic Gardens
16th December 2017 - 3rd February 2018
curated by Josh Philpott, Florence Goodhand-Tait, Daniel Rockman, and Rishil Parekh

The Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival Exhibition is a chance to celebrate the Nomadic Gardens by exhibiting artwork that has responded to the unique space. Queen’s Park Nomadic Garden is a DIY social space built amongst the urban sprawl of North West London. It is frequented by locals and their children who have formed a small, friendly community that helps maintain the garden, participate in arts activities, or simply hang out. Organised by Daniel Rockman and Rishil Parekh, it’s run by anyone who can contribute a skill, be it building, gardening, cooking, or anything else. Many artists have contributed murals to the garden walls, and held inclusive workshops in the space.

This exhibition is dedicated to Paulo Sousa, a dear friend and wonderful artist who was to contribute his work to the show, but very sadly and unexpectedly passed away. He is sorely missed and fondly remembered.

Featured artists:

Josh Philpott
Sinéid Codd
Vanessa Bizzarri
Melloney Harvey
Florence Goodhand-Tait
Honor Ash
Alice Wickens

Josh Philpott
Nomadic Garden Arch
Plywood, exterior satin wood paint, varnish
2017

Flat wooden archway with the word "Nomadic" painted in black capital letters across the top

Top of the flat wooden archway with the word "Nomadic" painted in black across the top

Top of the wooden archway with the word "Nomadic" painted in black capital letters

Close up of a tear in the surface of the wooden archway

Close up of pencil measurement markings on the surface of the wooden archway

Close up of the black painted capital letter M on the wooden archway

Red wooden box resting on a white shelf, open with a printed photo of a calm blue sea under a clear blue sky stuck inside the lid, and blue compartments full of sea shells and beach stones

Sineid Codd
Seaside in the City
First aid box, shells and pebbles from St. Leonard's on Sea, digital print
2017

Red wooden box resting on a white shelf, closed with a blue medical cross, yellow and pink triangles, red squares, and a green X painted on the lid

Picture of calm blue sea under clear sky with puffy couds pasted under the open lid of the red box

Blue compartments inside the red box with sea shells and beach stones inside

Red wooden box open with blue compartments inside

Red wooden box open with a persons hands reaching inside the blue compartments

A persons hand holding a sea shell in front of the open red box

A large abstract messy sculpture of gold, bright pink and purple splotches hangs in the window of a wooden shed, the shed is painted blue and purple with white flowes and an orange DNA double helix

Vanessa Bizzarri
Untitled
Two-part polyurethane foam, pigment, glitter
2016

The painted shed with the abstract sculpture in the window, it has tree bark corner panels and a corrugated iron roof

The doorway of the shed looking inside at more multicoloured abstract sculptures, one hangs from wires, three sit on metal barrels

Three multicoloured abstract sculptures inside the shed, two hang from wires

An abstract sculpture with drooping tendrils of pink and gold and purple all pointing outwards to the right

An abstract sculpture with splotches of blue and purple and pink and green in and around a wooden picture frame hanging in the air

Close up of tendrils of blue and turquoise and pink and green

Empty greenhouse in an urban community garden laser etched plant patterns in every glass pane

Melloney Harvey
To Dwell Is To Garden
Greenhouse, laser-etched glass
2016

Empty greenhouse with laser etched plant patterns in the glass panes

A glass pane with laser etched repeating plant patterns

Close up of a laser etched repeating pattern of pomegranates and venus fly traps in glass

Close up of laser etched repeating pattern of venus fly traps in glass

Close up of a laser etched pomegranate on glass

Close up of laser etched venus fly traps in glass with water droplets on its surface against a clear blue sky at dusk

A large frame with lengths cut from tree trunks with bark standing in an urban community garden, many small plastic cut outs of different plants coloured yellow, pink, blue, green, and orange hang from wires on the frame

Florence Goodhand-Tait
Flobiles
Laser-cut acrylic
2016

Multiple plastic cut outs of plants coloured yellow, pink, and blue hang from wire

Multiple plastic cut outs of plants coloured blue, pink, and green hang from wire

Multiple plastic cut outs of plants coloured orange, pink, and blue, hang from wire

A blue translucent cut out of a fern hanging from a wire

Multiple plastic cut outs of plants coloured pink, orange, and blue hang from wire

Three white ceramic hands each with glazed illustrations of red berries on their backs hang by the wrists from wires attached to a wooden structure with a corrugated metal roof

Honor Ash
Reverence
Ceramics
2017

A large wooden structure with a corrugated metal roof standing in an urban community garden, from the right corner of the roof hang three small white ceramic hands on wires

Three white ceramic hands hanging by their wrists on wire, the one on the left had "RE" glazed in black on its palm, the one in the middle had "VE" glazed in black on its palm, the one on the right has "RE" glazed in black on its palm

Three white ceramic hands hanging by their wrists on wire, one is slightly cupped, the other has a slightly bent ring finger, the third has slightly curled fingers

A white ceramic hand with red berries glazed onto its back hangin by its wrist on a wire

A white ceramic hand with a slightly bent ring finger and "VE" glazed in black on its palm hanging by its wrist on a wire

Three ceramic hands hanging by their wrists on wires silouetted against a white and blue sky at dusk

A metal chain with each link gift wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper hung between a tree stump and a tall length of tree trunk with bark in front of wooden hoarding with two large mushrooms painted on it

Alice Wickens
Paperchain
Chain, wrapping paper, varnish
2017

Metal chain with each link gift wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper

Metal chain with each link gift wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper disappearing around a tree stump next to a plant pot

Metal chain links giftwrapped in Christmas wrapping paper

Opening Party
with live music by The Giving Style, live painting by Emanuel Leal, a mosaic workshop by Florence Goodhand-Tait, and homemade biscuits by Alice Wickens

January 22nd 2018
Closing party performances provided by Project Mountain [VIDEO by Honor Ash] and Teo Robinson