Creative glass genius, Dale Chihuly, has revealed his sculptures for Kew Gardens. His work consists of beautiful organic shapes, with multiple individual pieces of glass. The organic elements mimic the magical landscapes and vegetation of it’s surroundings.
The exhibition displays 32 artworks with ‘reflections of nature’ over 13 different locations. The main part of this exhibition is the 9m long pendant named ‘Temperate House Persians’. Flourished with intricate blue-green flowers, cascading from the ceiling.
‘Reflections on Nature is not just about glass displayed in greenery however – it is also a thoughtful display of Chihuly’s oeuvre that reveals how he works on a number of different scales. In the gardens’ Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, a series of drawings, earlier and smaller works and a long film do much to explain how Chihuly is inspired by nature and ‘how objects look in a space’ and creatively motivated by the notion of pushing glass to the ‘edge of its technical abilities’, until it ‘is so hot it is almost collapsing’.
This is definitely on our ’To See’ list!