{"id":3745,"date":"2023-02-21T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:46:31","slug":"the-green-room-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-green-room-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green Room Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you visited the Green Room Gallery at the Botanic Garden yet? Find out more in this post from the Curator Kevin Frediani.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioning of a new structure that could look out from the garden to capture the views over the River Tay towards Fife, marked a unique opportunity for the University of Dundee Botanic Garden to present itself as a source of innovation and inspiration to a new generation of visitors. The Green Room gallery is a space that helps engage the visitor with the artistic side of the garden, where established and aspiring artists can be inspired and inspire others through celebrating the wonder of the natural world. It has been designed and constructed to sit naturally in the garden landscape and is constructed from sustainably sourced timber, that has been locally procured and built. The building is designed as a low energy building, using the solar gain from the south facing double glazed patio windows, that provide light and heat to the space and has a green roof of local meadow species installed by the garden staff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3748\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of the Green Room\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-1.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recent exhibitions include Trees Meet Sea by Dr Mandy Haggith and 14 contemporary Highland artists. This was a multi-media exhibition of artworks (including video, painting, etching, sculpture, textiles and ceramics) paired with poems. Dr Haggith said &#8220;Poets don\u2019t normally get to have exhibitions, so this is hugely exciting for me, and I\u2019m thrilled that we\u2019re able to bring this rich mixture of art together in dialogue with my poetry. I live on the shore of a Loch in Assynt where trees meet sea and it\u2019s a place of immense creative energy for me.&#8221;\u00a0An elegant pamphlet of the poems and artworks, designed by Gerry Cambridge, is available from Mandy\u2019s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandyhaggith.net\/shop.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3747\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-2.jpg\" alt=\"Artwork\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-2.jpg 504w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Green Room provides a space for PhD students and artists in residence. An example of this was <em>Sensorial Botanies\u00a0<\/em>an interdisciplinary research project led by D\u00e9sir\u00e9e Coral (Research artist in residence) and Anna Fink exploring different types of knowledge that can be experienced in the Garden.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3749\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-3-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for exhibition\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-3-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-3-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-3-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2023\/02\/Picture-3.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the Garden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/botanic\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you visited the Green Room Gallery at the Botanic Garden yet? Find out more in this post from the Curator Kevin Frediani. 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