Artist-Not-In-Residence

Hogan was appointed as the Garden Museum’s artist-in-residence just as the Museum closed for a major Heritage Lottery funded Redevelopment Project. Hogan created a ‘virtual museum’ by inviting 90 people to select a green space in London that mattered to them and describing why. This shed light on the position of the artist-in-residence and the congruencies between artist, concept and patron institutions. The Garden Museum is itself a museum-without-residence, in the sense that its subject doesn’t reside in the museum. It’s a conceptual museum. Hogan reflected this and her enquiry revealed the range of Londoners’ attraction and attachment to the selected spaces which included horticulture, history, personal psychology, private myth, romance, and eccentricity. Her exhibition of paintings, sketchbooks and studies coincided with the launch of the newly redeveloped and extended Museum. Focusing on the theme of process, the exhibition showcased a further selection of the nominated gardens through descriptions of the gardens and photographs of her at work by Sandra Lousada. A symposium, ‘Sanctuary, Green Spaces and Social Value’ which addressed themes emerging from the residency, was held at the Garden Museum on 4 May 2017 as a CCW public event.