Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London

A collaboration with
Ian Hamilton Finlay

Commissioned by Serpentine Gallery as part of the refurbishment of the gallery and grounds 1997. Work comprising a large & complex inscription ( 3.4m diam.) at the gallery's entrance (executed with Andrew Whittle), eight benches and a tree plaque all in Caithness stone. Each element of the work is inscribed with pastoral poetry. The paved entrance circle contains the names of trees found in Kensington Gardens and a quotation by the philosopher Francis Hutcheson, 1725

In conjunction with the completion of the work & the re-opening of the gallery a limited edition printed and bound copy of the proposal with finished drawings of all inscriptions was published by Wild Hawthorn Press