Lenses On A Landscape Genius brings together leading photographers to explore and celebrate the work of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. This unique exhibition is curated as part of the year-long Capability Brown Festival, which marks 300 years since the eminent landscape architects birth.
Brown’s impact on the British landscape is immense with an estimated 255 sites across the country that he worked or advised on. His influence reaches further still with international parks, gardens and landscapes inspired by his work. Brown’s design principles continue to be demonstrated in contemporary landscape architecture and garden design.
This exhibition from The Landscape Foundation and The Building Centre showcases specially commissioned photographs from eminent landscape and garden photographers.
The exhibition and associated event programme explores Brown’s extensive landscapes and management systems which were created using 18th Century tools. It reveals the mathematics, engineering, science and artistic skill that went into a commission, and find out how the work is as relevant today as it was 300 years ago.
Photographers: Andrew Lawson / Joe Cornish / Andrea Jones / Allan Pollok-Morris / Gary Rogers / Derek St Romaine / Matthew Bruce / Gareth Davies / James Kerr / Archie Miles / Gavin Kingcome / Simon Warner / Jacqui Hurst / Stephen Studd / James Smith / Steffie Shields
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