Jellicoe - Behind the Scenes at the JFK Memorial at Runnymede
First in Surrey Gardens Trust series, A People's Elysium: Geoffrey Jellicoe's Brave, New & Bold Public Landscapes, focusing on his pivotal landscape designs completed between 1955-1965.
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe was one of the 20th century's greatest landscape architects. His contribution to landscape design, a discipline he credited as the 'Mother of all Arts', including also his writings on landscape, and his influence in shaping and nurturing the young profession, were all hugely significant.
Jellicoe's traditional classical education, combined with his interest in the arts, and psychology and the subconscious, deeply influenced his creativity and the landscapes and gardens that he designed. In every project that Jellicoe undertook he pushed the boundaries.
This talks explores the JFK Memorial at Runnymede,now on the Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest,looking at how it has fared, what more do we know about it, and what is its future like?
Time 10:00 BST
