Summary
In Mat Collishaw's large colour print Who Killed Cock Robin? (1997), three little children gravely offer a bouquet to the dead bird laid out before them. The children seem oddly shrunken in comparison with the colossal size of the petals and plants surging above their heads. Nature's fertility here seems out of control, and quite capable of dominating humanity in a science-fiction nightmare.
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Paradise Lost
No nation is more besotted with gardens than us, so it was inevitable that Tate Britain would get around to mounting a major show called "Art of the Garden". Images of horticultural prowess are legion in British painting. And some artists have taken this love affair to an ambitious extreme by turning their gardens into highly consid...
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