Gardeners and artists are putting plants in galleries and expanding our notions of what horticulture can be.
There can be many expectations – in public spaces, especially – about how gardens should look and how they should be tended. People have strong opinions on everything from plant origins and flower colours to maintenance regimes.
For the past six months, Semmler has been growing a swirling, whimsical mass of flowers in the grounds of the McClelland in Langwarrin. Because this temporary garden is in an area of the gallery grounds that is closed to the public she has been able to refine, finesse and generally shake things up without the immediate need to please.
Exhibiting living plants as artworks is nothing new, and already this year the Perth Festival featured a bounteous brackish spread of Indigenous edible plants by Linda Tegg in consultation with Vivienne Hansen. And, later this year, Jonathan Jones will unveil a major new artwork that is expected to just keep growing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.In years gone by, artists have made works out of everything from oak trees and rainforest seedlings to native grasses and salt-tolerant edibles.
Not that she will be thrashing out the details of exactly what she did or how you might replicate this sort of dynamic planting at home. On this weekend’s tour she will encourage discussion about how participants feel when they see and walk around her everlasting daisies, blue lace flowers, zinnias and other native and exotic plants. She says she wants visitors to have “an immersive experience” and to “not just observe from the sidelines”.
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