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Free Thinking: Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter

Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter

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Jago Cooper, Barbara Paca, Jim Scown and Camilla Allen talk trees, soil, art and advocacy.

On World Soil Day, Jade Munslow Ong looks at garden paintings from Antigua, Alexander von Humboldt, trees and soil research, and talks to the Sainsbury Centre Director Jago Cooper

7th Prince of the West Indies was the title that Frank Walter gave himself. An artist who created over 5,000 paintings, 1,000 drawings, 600 sculptures, 2,000 photographs, 468 hours of recordings, and a 50,000-page archive, tried to become Prime Minister and was the first Black man to manage a sugar plantation in Antigua - a show about him at the Garden Museum in London has been curated by Professor Barbara Paca. She talks to Jade Munslow Ong, plus New Generation Thinker Jim Scown, who's been researching Alexander Humboldt and Camilla Allen who's looked at tree planting and landscape design, and Jago Cooper, Director of the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich discusses their new approach to exhibitions about climate change. 

Producer in Salford: Olive Clancy 

Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical runs at the Garden Museum in London until 25 Feb 2024
At the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich The Stuff of Life | The Life of Stuff which runs until Jan 14th 2024 is part of a season: Planet for our Future: How do we adapt to a Transforming World?  Sediment Spirit: The Activation of Art in the Anthropocene runs until March 31st 2024
The Politics of Street Trees edited By Jan Woudstra and Camilla Allen is out now
On the Free Thinking programme website you can find a collection of episodes exploring Green Thinking, all available as the Arts & Ideas podcast.

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