Garden Skips: Secret Borders

Artists: Robert Maslin, Anais Tondeur, Anna Lomax, Edward Llewellyn

16—25 May

Around Brompton Design District

Jekyll’s primary teaching around the use of colour was the importance of harmony; but harmony achieved through a careful balance of contrasts. Her name is often associated with the development of herbaceous borders, arranged and grouped in colours. The Secret Garden is concerned with the idea of secrets. The secret of the existence of the garden itself is the most significant — suggesting that the content of the garden is not the most important, but the way that one thinks about it. Planted skips by students from the Royal College of Art act as secret borders throughout Brompton, giving a different view on the garden within our immediate environment.