Ian Hamilton Finlay features in Landscape and Imagination: From Gardens to Land Art at Compton Verney

The exhibition (21 March–16 June 2024) explores the beauty of nature, reimagined and reinterpreted through the hands of artists and landscape designers who throughout history have felt the urge to shape the land around them.

The exhibition will explore the relationship between art, gardens, and landscape through a range of beautiful loans by major artists such as JMW Turner, Nicolas Poussin, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Anya Gallaccio. From the formal grounds of the 17th and 18th centuries to smaller flower-filled gardens of the 19th and 20th centuries, artists and garden designers have made their mark on the landscape around them. Today, environmentally conscious land artists undertake earth moving schemes which echo the grand planting schemes of the past.

Image: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Five Finials, 1999

Stone, with Peter Coates

39 x 21 x 21 cm, each approx
15 3/8 x 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 in, each approx

Courtesy the Artist's Estate and Victoria Miro

March 2 2024