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Doing RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The Wick Culture - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022

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The Wick Culture - Doing RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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Above RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022
24 — 28 May 2022
Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-chelsea-flower-show

A highlight of the cultural calendar, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is back, with its spectacular garden designs, floral displays, hand-picked tradestands and fine-dining restaurants.

Central to this year’s showcase are bees and other pollinators, with many gardens demonstrating how to attract and protect them. Among the pollinator-focused gardens is the Royal Horticultural Society and BBC flagship garden designed by presenter Joe Swift.

Other standout Gardens include The New Blue Peter Garden designed by Juliet Sargent, the Mind Garden designed by the landscape and garden designer Andy Sturgeon and the smaller Sanctuary Gardens, among them John Warland’s Ice Garden, featuring a giant ice cube which will melt as the show progresses.

Once you’ve meandered around the curated gardens, head to the Great Pavilion, where you’ll encounter some of the world’s finest growers and nurseries. Expect impressive displays, gorgeous scents and the most glorious spring blooms.

After all that tramping around, refuel with a glass of fizz and a floral-inspired afternoon tea at The Drawing Room or, for something a little heartier, head to Jardin Blanc with Raymond Blanc.

Viewing Henry Moore, Hauser & Wirth Somerset

The Wick Culture - Henry Moore, Upright Motives 1955c

Above Henry Moore, Upright Motives 1955c

Henry Moore: Sharing Form
28 May — 4 September 2022
Hauser & Wirth Somerset
https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/36155-henry-moore-sharing-form/

Get yourself to Hauser & Wirth Somerset to see the buzzy new exhibition of works by Henry Moore. Curated by Hannah Higham of the Henry Moore Foundation in collaboration with the artist’s daughter, Mary Moore, it examines the artist’s early fascination with the Neolithic site of Stonehenge and continued exploration of the upright abstract form. Also under consideration is his career-long investigations into scale, material and volume.

Installed across the garden and all five galleries, the exhibition brings together seminal works from across his six-decade career, including four towering bronze Upright Motive sculptures and Locking Piece (1962-63), which is made up of two large interconnecting forms stacked one on top of the other.

You’ll also encounter a significant series of etchings and lithographs depicting the site of Stonehenge, dating from 1972, and around 100 items from Moore’s studio. Shown together, they provide a rare insight into the working life of the modernist sculptor.

Once you’ve worked up an appetite exploring the exhibition and Piet Oudolf’s glorious garden, take yourself to Roth Bar and Grill for lunch. Order the pan fried sea bass before tucking into the rhubarb and custard pavlova. Trust us, you won’t regret it.

Viewing Among the Machines

The Wick Culture - Installation views of Among the Machines at Zabludowicz Collection

Above Installation views of Among the Machines at Zabludowicz Collection

Among the Machines
24 March — 17 July 2022
Zabludowicz Collection, London
https://www.zabludowiczcollection.com/exhibitions/view/among-the-machines

Make time to see Among the Machines at London’s Zabludowicz Collection, a major new exhibition of works from the collection examining how humans interact with machines and non-human entities. Rather daringly, it also considers how we will respond to a stage of evolution beyond the human.

It features 13 international artists, including Anicka Yi, Rebecca Allen and Simon Denny, who are engaging with various technologies to critically reflect on our current moment of change. Together, they tackle everything from new types of consciousness and alternative evolutionary branches to the impact of technology on our sense of individual and collective identity, and our relationship to the planet.

Shown alongside video, sculpture and interactive computer installations are new augmented reality artworks created in direct response to the gallery space. This is a mindboggling show, but it’s well worth a whiz round.