Battlefield - Gabriella Hirst

Battlefield is an artwork by Gabriella Hirst, a garden of plants whose officially registered cultivar names reference theatres of war, armed conflict and the military. The plant varieties were bred and given these names over the last 500 years by various nurseries and individual breeders, for example, Peony ‘Victoire de la Marne’ (registered and named in 1919), Rosa polyantha ‘Dunkerque’ (1950), Rosa floribunda “Atombombe” (1953). Hirst has been researching, assembling and tending to... Zobrazit více