Ssshhhh can you keep a secret? Secret Garden Project is coming...
Mobile cabbage patches? Bus stops for bees? A wicker maypole? It can only mean one thing. The Secret Garden Project is coming. For an 18 month stint, Secret Garden Project, produced by Up Projects, will be sowing a bit of green-finger magic across town with a new programme of pop-up art events created by emerging and established artists.
Kicking off in May, the project will evolve across different London boroughs. The Islington leg of the project will be launched by artist Francis Thorburn's delightful 'Mobile Picnic Pavilion', a mobile vegetable garden on wheels that will be tugged through the streets by a band of merry, performing gardeners.
If vitamins and picnic possibilities aren't really your thing then other highlights include 'A Pleasure Garden for Birds' which promises to be the ultimate hang out for all our feathered friends. Art and architecture collective London Fieldwork's are so confident in the power of their sculptural habitat that they boast it will even contribute to the life cycle of birds. Elsewhere the urban insect kingdom is taken care of thanks to Margot Bannerman's 'Bus Stops for Bees', which will transform the roofs of bus stops. We don't like bus stops at the best of times, and buzzy company might just make waiting for the bus an even more painful experience...
If bees don't do it for you – they do have a rather niche appeal – then maybe Shane Waltener's weaving at the ruins of Tibberton Baths will be more your cup of tea. Waltener will twist and turn his weaving into the form of a performance of a maypole dance, with an all important intriguing twist. And if you don't like birds, bees, weaving, planting projects, performance, literature or sculpture then a) what's wrong with you? And b) just don't bother coming.
The Secret Garden Project runs from May 2010 - November 2011.
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