Gardening the Archive: A Conversation between David Alesworth and Hammad Nasar

• Main Authors: Hammad Nasar, David Alesworth
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Yale University 2018-12-01
• Series: British Art Studies
• Subjects: David Alesworth; Landscape; contemporary art; Kashan; Bagh-e-Jinna; Khushab; Shakila Haider; Lahore Biennale
• Online Access: https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-10/gardening-archive

DOI For a contemporary artist, David Alesworth (b. 1957) has an unusual relationship with the landscape. For more than twenty-five years, he has maintained parallel professional lives: as an artist and art teacher; and as a landscape designer and horticultural consultant. Returning to live and work in the UK in 2015, after more than three decades in Karachi and Lahore, his geographic, artistic, horticultural, and biographical entanglements are directly reflected in a heterogonous and wide-ranging body of work featured in the Paul Mellon Centre’s Landscape Now conference (2017). In our cover collaboration with Alesworth for this special issue of British Art Studies, we feature five details from his recent projects that suggest the range of different questions we may pose to landscapes, now.