Olivia Laing: The Garden Against Time

In 2020, Olivia Laing began restoring a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. In person, London.

Time: 19:00 BST

https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-olivia-laing-the-garden-against-time/