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Manabe, El Anatsui and Refik Ana-
dol, among others. Visitors access
the exhibition via an app on their
smartphone or tablet, activated in
the gardens. Until Aug, seeingthe
invisible.artA Delicate Balance, Dawyck
Botanic Garden
The picturesque Dawyck Botanic
Garden, near the town of Peebles
in the Scottish Borders, is a 65-acre
sanctuary for endangered flora
from around the world. A new
sculpture trail created by the Bor-
ders-based artist Susheila Jamie-
son highlights the strength and
fragility of the natural world with
20 tactile, hand-carved limestone
sculptures, whose organic forms
mimic nature’s fractals and spirals.
Jun 1-Nov 30, rbge.org.uk/visit/
dawyck-botanic-gardenNorthern Ireland
Our Place in Space, Belfast,
then touring
Whizz through the solar system
on a free 10km space-themed
sculpture trail created by theFrom Burning Man at Chatsworth House to Henry Moore
in Somerset — Jade Cuttle on what’s livening our landscapes
to 12 monumental, mind-boggling sculp-
tures from the Burning Man festival, usu-
ally held in the Black Rock Desert,
Nevada, on display in the UK for the first
time. As well as daily walking tours
there are sunset and sunrise
watercolour painting and
mindfulness workshops.
Until Oct 1, chatsworth.orgEast
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
Henry Moore’s Draped
Reclining Woman returns
to the University of East
Anglia’s 350-acre free
sculpture gardens for the
first time since 2019, along-
side works by Pablo Picasso,
Francis Bacon, Edgar Degas,
Elisabeth Frink, Albert
Giacometti and Sonia De-
launay. New additions
include Anthony Caro’s
33m-long ziggurat Good-
wood Steps and Leiko
Ikemura’s Usagi Kannon, a
hybrid rabbit-human crea-
tion that was inspired by the Fukushima
nuclear disaster in Japan. sainsbury-
centre.ac.ukHoughton Hall, Norfolk
The Norfolk country house celebrates
its 300th anniversary this year with
three new sculptures from Ryan Gander,
works by Claudio Parmiggiani and an
exhibition of paintings by John Virtue.
Gander’s artwork More Really Shiny Things
That Don’t Mean Anything, a dazzling
giant sphere comprising thousands of
unidentifiable shiny steel knick-knacks,
is a magpie’s delight. Works by Jeppe
Hein, Rachel Whiteread, James Turrell
and Anya Gallaccio are also on show.
houghtonhall.comScotland
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
The highlight at the 100-acre Scottish
sculpture park this year is a permanent
new 6m bronze female nude by Tracey
Emin, I Lay Here for You, which sprawls
in an old beech grove, at one with nature.
The artwork coincides with Emin’s new
solo exhibition at the venue (May 29-Oct
2), her first in Scotland since 2008. Other
artists exhibiting in Jupiter’s programme
this summer include Joana Vasconcelos,
Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Maclean,
Cornelia Parker and Anya Gallaccio. The
park’s annual artist-led festival for art,
music and performance returns in August.
jupiterartland.orgSeeing the Invisible, Royal Botanic
Garden Edinburgh
An outdoor exhibition with a
minimal carbon footprint, Seeing the
Invisible explores — through aug-
mented reality — climate change,
our relationship with nature and
the boundaries between art
and technology via works by
Ai Weiwei, Isaac Julien, DaitoNorth and North West
White Cube at Arley Hall, Cheshire
The London gallery hosts its first
outdoor sculpture exhibition, dot-
ting more than 20 artworks round
the lawns, ponds and woodland
groves of the 18th-century Arley
Hall in Northwich. It’s a hands-on
affair with visitors encouraged to
touch and even climb on Isamu
Noguchi’s wiggly Play Sculpture
and Virginia Overton’s jangly
Chime. Elsewhere, Tracey Em-
in’s bronze birds flit round the
trees and David Altmejd’s modern
take on the classical nymph does
acrobatics on the lawn. Sculptures
by Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum,
Cerith Wyn Evans and Marguerite
Humeau also feature. Until Aug 29,
arleyhallandgardens.com
Yorkshire Sculpture Park,
Wakefield
YSP will celebrate its 45th
anniversary this summer
with a huge foam party. Sort
of. Roger Hiorns’s interactive work (Aug 6
to Sep 4) will use giant steel-tank bubble
machines to create vast clouds of fleeting,
interactive sculptures that will blow across
the grounds. Elsewhere, a headline show
from the American artist Robert Indiana
(until Jan 8, 2023) examines the dark
underbelly of the American dream. The
other 100 or so open-air sculptures on
display include The Family of Man, one
of the last significant works of Barbara
Hepworth, and the dreamy giant
heads of the Catalan artist Jaume Plensa.
ysp.org.uk
North East
Tour de Moon, various venues
Newcastle, then touring
This lunar-themed travelling arts festival
features a psychedelic inflatable play-
ground designed by Nasa, a giant rotating
moon and a huge red phone that allows
you to pester “Luna” with big questions
about life and the universe. The other-
worldly celebration is headed by a huge
sculpture of a squid called Archie, a 9m-
long replica of the rare and elusive crea-
ture at the Natural History Museum.
Interactive floats, sound baths, film
screenings, music and DJ sets also feature.
Newcastle (to May 30), Plymouth (Jun 8),
Southampton (Jun 10-13), Farnborough
(Jun 14), Crawley (Jun 15), then Hackney,
London (Jun 16), tourdemoon.com
Midlands
Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning
Man, Chatsworth, Derbyshire
A grizzly bear made from pennies,
huge boulder-sized lollipops, an
unwieldy metal horse and a
Second World War military
jet that has been upcycled
to resemble a flower...
The 1,000-acre park sur-
rounding Chatsworth
House is playing host
Blow your mind! 20 outdoor art
popping LOVE (Red
Blue Green) by Robert
Indiana at Yorkshire
Sculpture Park. Below:
Emergence by Susheila
Jamieson at Dawyck
Botanic Garden