Anya Gallaccio ‘Repens’ and Simon Patterson ‘Landslip’.

Anya Gallaccio ‘Repens’ and Simon Patterson ‘Landskip’.

In July 2000, Anya Gallaccio and Simon Patterson were commissioned to make new work for the Park at Compton Verney

Anya Gallaccio uses organic materials such as flowers, fruit, ice, salt and grass to create ephemeral, changing works of art. With Repens she created a mown ‘carpet’ in the landscape, inspired by one of Robert Adam’s 18th-century ceiling designs for Compton Verney. With an army of 20 helpers, she transferred an interior pattern into the landscape, creating an ‘inside-out’ effect.

Simon Patterson’s installation Landskip was a response to the occupation of Compton Verney by soldiers during the Second World War for camouflage testing. He installed smoke-making devices in the park, and released ‘military smokes’, timed to emit plumes of coloured smoke that unfurled ribbons of green, blue, red, violet, yellow and white into the landscape.

The project was curated by Locus+