Ginkgo biloba
The Ginkgo biloba creative project - Botanical artist Fiona Swapp of Art Plantae, is assisting the Duthie Park gardening team in celebrating a unique tree nurtured in the Winter Gardens.
Fiona envisaged the Ginkgo biloba creative project, which is timed to coincide with an international peace project, 'Mayors of Peace', that undertakes to grow seeds from atomic bomb-damaged trees. It is now 75 years since the nuclear attacks on Japan at the end of World War Two.
As part of the Mayors for Peace project, the seeds of the Ginkgo biloba trees that regenerated from the damaged trees in Hiroshima are gifted to cities around the world to promote peace.
In 2015, Aberdeen's Lord Provost was gifted a set of seeds, and a team of gardeners at the Duthie Park have successfully germinated the seeds, which are now small trees.
The project engages with the public and schools through an artist residency, to give drawing/painting/craft workshops at the Winter Gardens Education room (now virtual) in collaboration with the Parks education team in May and June. All of the artworks created by public and artist will be curated to form an exhibition placed in the Foyer of the Winter Gardens in August 2020. There will be a new information panel about the Ginkgo trees and their link to the Mayors for Peace project that will remain in the gardens.
The Friends of the Duthie Park and Art Plantae have funded the Ginkgo project.
Below are some of the activities that schoolchildren will be participating in. Feel free to join in too.
Fiona envisaged the Ginkgo biloba creative project, which is timed to coincide with an international peace project, 'Mayors of Peace', that undertakes to grow seeds from atomic bomb-damaged trees. It is now 75 years since the nuclear attacks on Japan at the end of World War Two.
As part of the Mayors for Peace project, the seeds of the Ginkgo biloba trees that regenerated from the damaged trees in Hiroshima are gifted to cities around the world to promote peace.
In 2015, Aberdeen's Lord Provost was gifted a set of seeds, and a team of gardeners at the Duthie Park have successfully germinated the seeds, which are now small trees.
The project engages with the public and schools through an artist residency, to give drawing/painting/craft workshops at the Winter Gardens Education room (now virtual) in collaboration with the Parks education team in May and June. All of the artworks created by public and artist will be curated to form an exhibition placed in the Foyer of the Winter Gardens in August 2020. There will be a new information panel about the Ginkgo trees and their link to the Mayors for Peace project that will remain in the gardens.
The Friends of the Duthie Park and Art Plantae have funded the Ginkgo project.
Below are some of the activities that schoolchildren will be participating in. Feel free to join in too.
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