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FONC Woodland Wonders 2011Weekends in September, from 11a.m. to 5p.m.A Public Art Exhibition of Woodland Art Installations
The exhibition draws up upon the cemetery's abandoned past and its transformation into a ash-sycamore woodland, natural in structure and growing among vegetated gravestones, with many remnants of the 1840 Victorian plantings remaining, including a formal avenue of towering lime trees. 15 artists have been inspired by Nunhead Cemetery's woodland and wildlife.
Woodland tours and leaflet will also be available for visitors to explore Nunhead Cemetery's woodland on Sundays 4th, 11th, 26th September 2011, and 17th-18th September 2011 (Open City Weekend), from 2pm-3.30pm. Click here to download the leaflet if you can't make a tour date. We look forward to seeing you there.
The Friends of Nunhead Cemetery |
Visitors to Nunhead Cemetery will have the opportunity to enjoy Woodland Wonders, a public art exhibition of woodland art installations sited in the Restored Anglican Chapel. It's open throughout the weekends in September 2011 from 11am-5pm, including Open House Weekend (now Open City) 17th-18th September 2011. This exhibition in association with FONC is curated by Jolanta Jagiello and funded by Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council Grant from Southwark, and ArtGoingPlaces.
Sara Scott, and Desiree Ickerodt artwork alludes to the cemeteries decaying past, and Everton Wright on its current purpose. Debora Mo, and Elisabeth Chojak-Myszko have chosen to work with its symbolic meanings, whilst Kath Cottee, and Jeff Soan are focusing their attention on its inhabitants. Alex Harley, Mike Hoath, Jayne Lloyd and Jolanta Jagiello will look at the structure of wood and its possibilities, with Isabella Pitisci, and Julia Peat concentrating on the fragility of leaves. The McKenzie family will create a Museum of Diseased Wood, complementing Jill Rock's Museum of the Paranormal.