1818 SPRING SPRING HOME HOMEDale Chihuly’s beautiful glass
pieces go on show around
Kew Gardens this month.
HOME has a preview
Words EVE HERBERTA
major exhibition of
work by one of the
world’s most cele-
brated contemporary
glass artists comes
to Kew Gardens this
month. Seattle-based
glass artist Dale Chi-
huly’s impressive lu-
minous artworks go on display in a perfect
marriage of art, science, and nature. Famous
worldwide for his dazzling coloured glass
sculptures, Chihuly’s work has been exhib-
ited in an incredible 240 museums around the
world over the course of his 50-year career.
As well as glass, Chihuly uses paint, charcoal,
graphite, neon, ice and Polyvitro to explore
possibilities and realise his vision.
At Kew, Chihuly’s artworks will truly sing –
unrestrained bursts of colour commanding a
space of luscious greenery, showing visitors
one of London’s few UNESCO world heritage
sites in an entirely diff erent way; its rolling
vistas and ornate glasshouses transformed
into a contemporary outdoor gallery space
like no other.NATURAL
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