Five duratrans fitted in bespoke steel lightboxes
Each 2000mm(L) × 1000mm) × 65mm(D)
Vinyl wall text
Featuring plants from the Liverpool Botanical Collection
Wall Text
In Liverpool there is a liberality in its merchants, which even in London is not rivaled. Let anything be proposed for the ornament or honour of the town, they respond with subscriptions to any amount. It has lately been resolved to have a botanic garden here replete with library, herbarium, glasshouses and vistas; a large sum has been raised and the ground purchased. ‘It will be long,’ said I to my friend, ‘before this can be brought to perfection.’ ‘Oh sir,’ said he, with a smile of triumph which it was delightful to perceive, ‘you do not know how these things are at Liverpool. Money and activity work wonders. In half a dozen years we shall have the finest garden in England.’
Robert Southey, Diarist, 1799
Commissioned by Liverpool Culture Company for European Capital of Culture 2008. First shown the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK. Courtesy the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, acquired by Phil and Alexis Redmond
Each 2000mm(L) × 1000mm) × 65mm(D)
Vinyl wall text
Featuring plants from the Liverpool Botanical Collection
Wall Text
In Liverpool there is a liberality in its merchants, which even in London is not rivaled. Let anything be proposed for the ornament or honour of the town, they respond with subscriptions to any amount. It has lately been resolved to have a botanic garden here replete with library, herbarium, glasshouses and vistas; a large sum has been raised and the ground purchased. ‘It will be long,’ said I to my friend, ‘before this can be brought to perfection.’ ‘Oh sir,’ said he, with a smile of triumph which it was delightful to perceive, ‘you do not know how these things are at Liverpool. Money and activity work wonders. In half a dozen years we shall have the finest garden in England.’
Robert Southey, Diarist, 1799
Commissioned by Liverpool Culture Company for European Capital of Culture 2008. First shown the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK. Courtesy the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, acquired by Phil and Alexis Redmond