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Title: Rogue: Art of a Garden
Author: ECKERSLEY RICK
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/06/2019
Imprint: URO PUBLICATIONS, MELBOURNE
Price: $95.00
Publishing status: Active
Rick Eckersleys garden at Musk Cottage is the culminating work of decades of design and experimentation in contem- porary Australian landscape architecture. As Eckersleys own private garden, it is an expression both of his respect for Aus- tralias unique flora and ecologies and his unfettered, almost painterly approach to garden design. Both wild and directed, ancient and contemporary, it is a landscape of contradictions a rogue garden of hybrid vigour that engages the senses, celebrates intuition and inspires artistic expression. It is also, unquestionably, a work of art in itself.Rogue: Art of a Garden documents and explores this remark- able Australian landscape and the sensibility that produced it. While evocative photography by Will Salter takes the reader on a journey through the gardens plantings, textures, spaces and cycles, the book foregoes the typical series of accompanying explanatory essays. Instead, a selection of artworks by Aus- tralian artists, created in response to the garden, form richly subjective layers of interpretation and shifting perspectives. Short reflections by Eckersley reveal the philosophical under- pinnings of an approach that has transcended gardenings strictures and conventions to create a uniquely Australian landscape.
ISBN: 9780648435518