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Cultivate and celebrate: treasures of the kitchen garden

Artist Christine Wilcox-Baker recounts her residency at Tatton Park with Gardens Manager Sam Youd.

In 2008 I graduated from the MA Art as Environment course at Manchester Metropolitan University, and importantly my work gained a clearer definition. Being passionate about nature and our astonishing planet, I focused my work on food plants. I have been steadily building my professional practice and over recent years have taken part in many projects. I want my work to have purpose and meaning and therefore try to find projects that will deliver these goals. I enjoy a mixture of solo and collaborative working, and projects that have mutually beneficial outcomes. I got talking to Sam Youd at a Cheshire Gardens Trust meeting and found empathy in our passions for gardening and art, so I seized the moment. We arranged to meet the following week and so began a fantastic working relationship. Sam had previously worked with artists in residence and felt they had been very successful partnerships and so he was open to the idea of hosting another. I set about writing a proposal to put to the General Manager, Brendan Flanagan, and as I knew Tatton weren't actually looking for anyone at the time I added the proviso that I would look for my own funding. I'm strongly of the view that...

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