A Garden Sampler
Various Artists
Mermaid Arts Centre
English
Edited by Elida Maiques and Anne Mullee
Softcover
Edition of 300
65 pages
160 × 260 mm
2025
ISBN 9781036925246
Selected works by Irish, Spanish and British artists consider the effects and legacy of colonialism, horticulture and the garden as a status symbol, inviting the audience to explore radical post-colonial horticultural practice and histories. Imbued with notions of displacement, class, exile, invasion, appropriation, theft and hunger, the history of gardening and horticulture on the island of Ireland and beyond contains the very recipe of colonisation, from the plantations of both people and forests to the introduction of monoculture food and cash crops.
Contributions by Maebh Aguilar, Pam Araújo, Samantha Brown, Vita Coleman, Malú Colorín, Anusia Grennell, Elida Maiques, John Mason, Anne Mullee, Tracy Perkins, Sui Searle, Paul Wagstaff, Anne-Marie Walsh, and Annie White.
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Mermaid Arts Centre is County Wicklow’s creative engine-room. With a theatre, gallery, cinema, café and a lively programme of events to enjoy and participate in, we’re a home for artists and artistic communities to create, connect and make memories. Our purpose is driven by a fundamental belief in the power of shared experience and connection in combatting loneliness and isolation among people, and in the right to freedom of artistic expression and creation for all.
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