A PEOPLE’S ELYSIUM: BRAVE, NEW AND BOLD PUBLIC LANDSCAPES BY SIR GEOFFREY JELLICOE
Our postponed study day moved online in a series of three lectures. We were delighted to have Annabel Downs, Cherrill Sands, Ed Bennis and Kate Harwood talk about Jellicoe’s pivotal role in post-modernist landscape design.
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe was one of the 20th century's greatest landscape architects. His contribution to landscape design, a discipline he credited as the 'Mother of all Arts', including also his writings on landscape, and his influence in shaping and nurturing the young profession, were all hugely significant. Jellicoe's traditional classical education, combined with his interest in the arts, and psychology and the subconscious, deeply influenced his creativity and the landscapes and gardens that he designed. In every project that Jellicoe undertook he pushed the boundaries.
In this three-part series of talks, we explored three seminal projects completed between 1955-1965, a decade that may be regarded as a turning point in Jellicoe’s long and distinguished career. The Cadbury Factory at Moreton, the Water Gardens at Hemel Hempstead and the JFK Memorial at Runnymede, these landscapes are all now on the Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.
Wk 1: Introduction to Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe with Cherrill Sands and Behind the Scenes at the JFK Memorial at Runnymede with Annabel Downs
Wk 2: A Factory Garden - The Serpents of Moreton Marsh with Ed Bennis
Wk 3: Saving the Serpent with Kate Harwood
