Here are this year’s events – those at the top are organised by the Folly Fellowship, and those in the second block are events by other organizations that may be of interest. Some hints on ordering mutliple tickets are given here.
It’s ten years since we last visited Painshill and much has been achieved in restoration since then. The restoration of the Crystal Grotto started by the late Folly Fellow Diana Reynell (see obituary in issue 99) has been completed and is stunning, and the reconstruction of the Temple of Bacchus has just been finished. We will have a guided tour. In the afternoon there will an opportunity to visit Vanbrugh’s Belvedere at Claremont, rarely open to the public. A cream tea to follow.
Further details from Peter Godfrey 0117 908 7375 or pfgodfrey@gmail.com
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A two day Symposium – Day one will be a full day symposium of illustrated talks on a variety of folly-related subjects including:
Michael Cousins – Follies in the Chinese Taste
Dr Laura Mayer – ‘Tea-things, Dragons and Bells’: Humphry Repton’s Greatest Folly
Isobel and Julian Bannerman – subject to be confirmed
Dr Iain Jackson – Nek Chand’s Rock Garden at Chandigarh, India
Lady Lucinda Lambton – subject to be confirmed
Henry Macrory – Whitaker Wright and Other Moles
The day will include tea/coffee and buffet lunch.
Day two: A General Meeting of the Charity to present the accounts and business plan for the way ahead. There will also be a talk by Sarah Finch-Crisp on The History of Lydiard Park. If time permits, there will be a discussion on legacy projects and what follies mean to us, and a discussion on places that members would like to visit. All of this will help us shape our future work and future direction.
Tickets are £45.00 for members and £50.00 for guests, and includes a buffet lunch and tea/coffee throughout the day. Tickets for Sunday are £10 and for members only. Attendees must also pay £4.00 at the venue for car parking on the day– details from Andrew Plumridge.
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Talks and events by organizations other than the Folly Fellowship
Four engaging new temporary artworks will be unveiled in the landscape of the World Heritage Site at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal in spring 2018, shining a light on the lost follies and hidden views of the water garden and abbey beyond. Now in its third year, folly! the National Trust site’s contemporary art programme, will be the boldest yet with large-scale outdoor works in the landscape.
International artists and architects Charles Holland Architects, Lucy + Jorge Orta, and Flea Folly have each been commissioned to re-imagine the lost follies which once stood on key sites within the Georgian water garden. A fourth piece, designed by a pupil from a local school as part of a collaboration with the North Yorkshire Society of Architects, will also be unveiled.
This exhibition brings back some of Horace Walpole’s original art collection that was dispersed in 1842 in a great sale.
This lecture addresses how various forms of memory are expressed in Repton’s landscape vision, including personal memoir, cultural elegy and antiquarian learning, as part his longstanding concern with passing time.
This lecture will be given by Stephen Daniels, Curator of our exhibition Repton Revealed.
Speakers include:
Chris Sumner, London Parks and Gardens Trust: Repton in London
Sarah Dickinson, Surrey Gardens Trust: Tracking down a Hardenberg Basket
Toby Parker, Hertfordshire Gardens Trust: Repton and the East India Company Patronage
Steffie Shields, Lincolnshire Gardens Trust: ‘Water in the valley’ – Normanton, re-discovering a Red Book
Patrick Eyres, Yorkshire Gardens Trust: Repton and the War Profiteers
Judy Tarling, Sussex Gardens Trust: Repton and Friends at Heathfield Park
Glynis Shaw Welsh Historic Gardens Trust: Repton and John Nash as partners
Kate Harwood, Hertfordshire Gardens Trust: ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ – using research to save a Repton Landscape
Hugh Vaux Kent Gardens Trust: Montreal, a Repton landscape interpreted
Claire de Carle, Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust: ‘Parrots, Pineapples and Puckler’