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  • Tuesday, April 28, 12:00 noon Eastern – A Fresh Breeze: Discovering Khadambi’s Garden

    Join The Garden Museum online on April 28 for a lecture exploring the extraordinary life and work of Kenyan poet, civil servant, and artist Khadambi Asalache, whose home at 575 Wandsworth Road stands as one of London’s most quietly remarkable interiors.

    Since moving into the property in 1981, Asalache spent decades transforming the house into an intricate work of art, carving fretwork from salvaged timber to cover almost every surface of the building. Now cared for by the National Trust, the house has attracted growing recognition as an exceptional and deeply personal creative achievement.

    Less well known is Asalache’s relationship with the garden.

    In this lecture, artist, poet and academic Edward Adonteng, who has been researching Asalache’s life and practice, brings new attention to his work as a gardener, and asks what the garden meant to a man for whom making and beauty were inseparable.

    Register at www.gardenmuseum.org. £10.00


  • Friday, April 11, 12:00 noon Eastern – John Ystumllyn, Online

    This portrait below of John Ystumllyn is a central piece in The Garden Museum’s new ‘Black Gardening in Britain’ display in the museum. Ystumllyn was a Black Welsh Gardener who lived in North Wales in the 1700s.

    Before the portrait – which is on temporary loan to the museum from Anthony Mould – leaves to go on display in the British Library’s Unearthed exhibition, come and say goodbye to John Ystumllyn at an evening centred around his life, where we discuss how he ended up in Britain, his legacy and how we view his life beyond the painting of him at 16. £10 Livestream Book tickets at GardenMuseum.org. The speaker will be Edward Adonteng. Edward Adonteng is an essayist, poet, artist, gardener, and academic from South London. He describes himself as a bridge-builder, facilitating discourse on several themes and creating platforms for people to thrive and fully exercise their ingenuity. Recently published as a Contemporary Ghanaian Poet, Edward ruminates on ways that human beings can communicate with each other in a new world that ignores the “little things.” He focuses on intellectual histories, epistemology, and anti-colonial thought/practice within academia. His attitude around growing is simple – to grow is to be human.