The Secret Garden finished in June 2008, over the summer the undergrowth has begun to take the space back as its own, the budlea has started to come back, this time its flowering after being cut back. There are wild flowers growing which never had a chance before due to the canopy of unmanaged budlea blocking out any light. there are even tomato plants growing from the seeds dropped from sandwiches we ate during our time there - the place is beginning to look like a garden.
We have decided to continue working in the space, and are hoping to reside there for a further 18months. Where I documented the clearing of the space for The Secret Garden project I am now interested in documenting the return of nature.
The space - now named The Rea Garden is now expected to be divided into two areas, firstly the ‘garden’ area which was cleared and housed the shipping containers for The Secret Garden is now to be a space to host artist led projects. Myself and Paul hope to invite a range of artists to the site to become artists in residence. Its hoped that the first artists to spend time in the space are Alex Lockett and Ian England who will be spending 12 months down at the garden from January 2009. As well as Alex and Ian there will be further residencies taking place from May 2009. As well as these residencies we hope to have a range of smaller projects taking place.
The second part of The Rea Garden is the ‘dome’ area. Leon is building a geodesic dome within the currently uncleared area. The dome will be an area for the research into 360 degree film as well as many other things….











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