enclosed garden
This former stable serving Cabinteely house was transformed as part of the INTERgeneration programme of events in April 2014, developed with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council's Arts Office. It is an exploration of the ideas and history of the enclosed garden - an outside room, walled in but open to the sky, constructed and full of plant life, these gardens bridge the worlds of architecture and landscape.
This garden engages with the three aspects of the enclosed garden - as a place of social activity and play, a place of ordered planting and as a place for contemplation - through the elements of its installation. The aspect of play is represented by the coloured rope installation overhead; herbs and spices arranged along the outside walls refer to the practice of cataloguing plants in enclosed gardens; and in the centre of the garden is a herb seat where you are invited to sit, listen, look up and contemplate the sky.
