Chronology

1993
	Francis Carr, Founder organises Inaugural meeting of the Landscape and Art Group at The Building Centre, London promoted by Ken Fieldhouse, publisher of Landscape Design, the Journal of The Landscape Institute. Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe appointed as Patron. Ian Thompson from Newcastle University, appointed as Vice Chair, Ivor Cunningham, elected as Southern Region Chair. Tam Giles appointed events co-ordinator
November	Newsletter No. 1 (Inaugural Meeting of the Landscape & Art Group) Kate Walker editor
1994
	Lady Patricia Gibberd becomes the second Network Patron
Spring	Newsletter No. 2
April	Newsletter No. 3
	First Membership Directory published, 108 members
July	Newsletter No. 4
Autumn	Newsletter No. 5
	1st AGM
1995
	Constitution drafted and agreed
March	Members' talks at Business Design Centre, Islington
April	Lecture, Prof David Goode, Head of Environment, GLA, Business Design Centre, Islington
April	Newsletter No.6 (Public Sculpture- Urban Enlightenment)
May	Group visit to Sutton Place House & Garden
June	First Bulletin published; Tam Giles editor
June	Group visit to Holland; public sculpture sites, meetings with Dutch land artists
July	Group visit to Rachel Bebb’s Garden Gallery, nr Stockbridge and the New Art Centre, Roche Court
July	Group visit to Yorkshire Sculpture Park; launch of ongoing relationship
September	Gillespie Festival; L&AN proposals for Islington Ecology Centre at Gillespie Park exhibited as part of a public consultation and Festival
September	Group visit to the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail; organised by Jane Spray
September	Anniversary meeting (presentation about Gillespie Park project)
September	Newsletter No.7 (Dutch trip reports) (edited by Betti Moser)
October	2nd AGM
November	Lecture, Sandra Percival, Director, Public Art Development Trust, at The Building Centre
December	L&A Christmas Party at Islington Ecology Centre
1996	To Top
February	Lecture, Dennis Sharpe, Architecture, Nature and the Organic, at The Building Centre
April	Newsletter No.8 published (William Morris)
April	Group visit to Sutton Place House & Garden
May	Conference; Local Focus, in partnership with the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Organised by Tam Giles and Anna Bowman, Head of Education YSP, in kind support from YSP, with 100 attendees, Speakers included: Peter Murray, curator, Francis Carr, Han Lorzing on Public Art in Holland, Chris Cowan, Wakefield Public Arts, Elsa Levisser and Lorna Green. Visit to the Earth Centre, Doncaster, local artist Jonathan Adamson, Pennines Sculpture Trail guided walk
May	Group visit to Wye Valley- revisiting William Gilpins tour, talk by Malcolm Andrews, author of History of the Picturesque
July	Newsletter No. 9 (International theme)
July	Group visit to Pallant House, Chichester and Goodwood Sculpture Park, organised by Paul Best
August	Group visit to Derek Jarman’s Garden at Dungeness
October	Lottery funding granted for Gillespie Park (Islington Ecology Centre) project (£100,000)
October	Group visit to Strawberry Hill, Kingston
October	3rd AGM
1997	To Top
	Professor Chris Baines, Alan Baxter, Ivor Cunningham, Professor Michael Ellison, Fay Godwin, Andy Goldsworthy and Preben Jacobsen agree to act as Patrons. A memorandum of Association was adopted and the Network registered as a Limited Company. Trustees elected and directors appointed
January	Alan Baxter Associates, host L&AN meetings
	Start of Islington Ecology Centre project
February	Newsletter No.10 (Stone & Water)
February	Lecture, Jeremy Linden, Chiswick Creek environmental development plans
March	Lecture, Doug Gleave, Rio Earth Summit and Agenda 21
April	Joint workshop L&AN and Art & Architecture
April	Lecture, Preben Jacobsen, European Sculpture Parks
May	Network 3 day projects in 3 Yorkshire primary schools, direct result of contacts via YSP, Yorkshire Arts and York education authority
May	Group visit, White Cliffs Countryside Project, new landscape from Channel tunnel spoil, study in ecological colonization Debbie Bartlett
June	Lectures (by agreement with Art & Architecture) Charles Jencks, (organised by Urban Design Group) New Urban Design and the Fractal City, Kisho Kurokawa, Metabolism to Symbiosis, Shin Egashiro, Japanese Sculptor
June	Basildon Town Square, Network members’ contributions; Chief Architect Ivor Cunningham, Chief Engineer, Frank Hodgson. First meeting with Tony Beckwith, BADI Basildon art and design initiative
Summer	Reduced Network activities due to commitment to IEC
July	Newsletter No.11 (Visions)
September	Lecture, Liz Russell, Learning Through Landscapes
October	4th AGM Talk by Jim Buchanan
November	Newsletter No.12 published (Community Arts)
December	Christmas Party at The Gallery in Cowcross Street, with Mongolian slide show and overtone singing
1998	To Top
	First major Network members' exhibition. Charity status pursued further; Gillespie Park project completed
January	Lecture, Rick Faulkner, Chrysalis Arts
February	Newsletter No.13 (Landscape in Art - Art in the Landscape)
February	Lecture, Angela Conner, Sculptor
	Gillespie Ecology Park design, Earth Mound View Point Network commission involving over ten members. Lottery funded project transforming the landscape at the London Ecology Centre
March	Exhibition: Private Dreams and Public Art, Sarah Firmin, Pip Al-Khafaji and Linda Gordon held in the Gallery, Cowcross Street, accompanying Seminar addressed by Jon Aldenton, Chief executive of the Environment Trust, Dr Eric Moody of the City University and Maggie Brennan, artist
	Visit to the Prince of Wales’ Institute of Architecture
June	Newsletter No.14 published (Art & Education)
	5th AGM Clive Adams lecture, The Centre for Art & the Natural World
	Dr Jeff Higley, artist, sculptor and musician, Network Committee member appointed Co-Chair
October	Group Visit to Jeff Higley's Woodland site in Kent
Autumn	Newsletter No. 15 (Gillespie Park turns Sculpture Park)
1999	To Top
January	Network granted Charity status No. 1073173
February	Newsletter No.16 (Interdisciplinary issue)
May	First visit to the Portland Quarry, May Bank Holiday group sculpture weekend, lectures by Hannah Sofaer (PMST), Dr Jala Makhzoumi, Peter Randall-Page
June	Newsletter No.17 (Ireland)
July	Group visit to Boar Place, Kent (Commonwork Trust )
June	Group visit to Jeff Higley’s’ wood, Sevenoaks
September	Group visit to Newgrange Neolithic site, Ireland and Annual Forum of the Irish Landscape Alliance
October	Newsletter No.18 (South-West England)
2000	To Top
	L&AN joins AININ, the European Network of “Artists in Nature International Network”
	www.landartnet.org launched
January	Patron and Advisor Ken Fieldhouse lecture, Earth 2000
	Lecture: John Smith and Richard Prime presented their Sacred Land and Arts and Sacred Places projects
January	Funding secured for 'Land Art and Land Use in the 21^st Century' major interdisciplinary conference scheduled for November
February	Lecture: Maurice Agis
February	Newsletter No.19 (Wales) Start of “new and improved” editions
February	Lecture: John Smith and Richard Prime presented their Sacred Land and Arts and Sacred Places projects
April	Lecture: Architect Ayyub Malik’s survey of attitudes shaping the culture and environment of Muslim societies
May	Portland Sculpture and Quarry sculpture weekend
June	The Lee Valley Garden Gnome, Sculpture by Francis Carr, in collaboration with Lee Valley Regional Park Authority as part of the Covent Garden Flower Festival, produced by Haring Woods Associates
June	Newsletter No.20 (South-East England)
June	Joint Seminar with the Landscape Institute
July	Group visit to Maurice Agis’, Dreamspace
October	Newsletter No.21 (L&A Members' projects)
November	Conference: “Land Art and Land Use in the 21^st Century” funded by Awards for All, hosted by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority/Tony Beckwith and held at the Lea Valley Park Conference Centre, on Three Mills Island, Bromley-by-Bow. Organised by Jeff Higley and Stephanie Bunn. Two day conference for 100 practitioners, academics and students from throughout the UK, with internationally recognised speakers; Ken Fieldhouse, Sue Clifford, Richard Weston, Edward Goldsmith, Peter Randall-Page, Trudi Entwistle, Hannah Sofaer and William Pye. Conference papers published in the Journal
November	7th AGM
2001	To Top
	New and improved L&A website launched (www.landartnet.org)
January	Lecture: Landscape architect Philip Cave; the philosophy of the Japanese garden from Zen to tea gardens
February	Conference-report Newsletter No.22 published (special issue with 36 pages)
April-June	Lecture Series: Landscape, ethnicity and art, Nature and Art, Jonathan King, Assistant Keeper, Department of Ethnography, British Museum
May	Lecture: Life amongst the Canadian Inuit. Islam, Dr Shaikh Abdul Mabud, Director General the Islamic Academy, Cambridge
May	Portland Sculpture and Quarry sculpture weekend
June	Newsletter No.23 (Scotland)
	Lecture: William Pye
June	The Urban Arts Garden, Covent Garden. Curated by Haring Woods Associates as part of the Covent Garden Flower Festival in partnership with Westminster City Council. Environmental art and site specific interventions using recycled materials. Included works by Trudi Entwistle, Antonia Spowers, Gwenda Mark, Tam Giles, Sheila Fairman, Will Spankie, Jeff Higley, Peter Randall-Page, Julian Sainsbury and Andrew Logan
November	8th AGM, and Christmas Party Cowcross Gallery Name changed from “Art” to “Arts” expressing the diverse Network composition. The Trustees appointed Alan Baxter, Ken Fieldhouse, Professor David Goode and Edward Goldsmith as Advisors, as a change from the existing panel of Patrons
2002	To Top
	William Arthurs appointed as Advisor
February	Newsletter No.25 renamed as Landscape & Art, the Journal of the Landscape & Arts Network (Japan 2001), with sponsorship from Japan 2001 (24 pages, first colour cover!)
February	Lecture: Simon Groom of MOMA Oxford jointly organised with Art & Architecture, introduced “Mono-ha”, an avant-garde landscape and art movement
March	Lecture: Susan House Wade, coordinator of “Horticulture Japan 2001”, Japanese gardens in the UK from 1900 to the present. Hosted by Battersea Park’s Pump House Gallery
April	Group visit to Cornwall; The Eden Project, The St Ives Tate Gallery, and Tremenheere, with Neil Armstrong
April-June	Lecture Series: Landscape, ethnicity and art, Nature and Art, Jonathan King, Assistant Keeper, Department of Ethnography, the British Museum
May	Lecture: Life amongst the Canadian Inuit. Islam, Dr Shaikh Abdul Mabud, Director General the Islamic Academy, Cambridge
May	South East Region Branch established by Barbara Walters
May	Portland Sculpture and Quarry sculpture weekend
June	Journal No.26 ('Landscape, Ethnicity and Art')
June	Lecture: Lionel Kochan, Member of Wolfson College, Oxford discussed the ecology of Judaism in relation to Nature and Man.
September	Group visit: Groundwork Bridgend and Port Talbot at the Tondu Iron Works, Wales. Exploring the geological significance and future development of this Victorian quarry with scheduled monuments, through artists interventions. This project has the potential to become a model to influence the national policy of Groundwork and the role of the arts in their project development
September	Group visit to the Forest of Dean hosted by Jane and Martin Spray, included a guided walk, pit-kiln firing and seminar
September	Seven Dials Festival, produced and curated by Haring Woods Associates. Included Hidden Blossoms, site specific performance piece by Jeff Higley, Mud art workshop by Edith Slee, willow workshop by Gwenda Mark, exhibition by Francis Carr and Andrea Carr
September	Lecture: Andrew Whalley, architect and Director of the Eden Project, Cornwall, hosted in collaboration with The Building Centre Trust
October	Journal No.27 (Art, Place and Materials)
October	Joint event with Design Museum (Isamo Noguchi exhibition)
October	Lecture: Peter Randall-Page, co-hosted by The Building Design Centre Trust
August-November	South East Region members’ exhibition at Lewes House Gardens, Church Twitten, in association with Lewes Artwave
October-November	Conjured Moments- Detached Fragments exhibition of members’ work at the Crypt Gallery, Seaford with lectures and workshops
November	American connection established with Katrin Spiess, based in New York City
November	9th AGM Francis Carr steps down as Chair, appointed Honorary Life President. Eileen Woods appointed as new Chair
	Alan Smith appointed as Advisor
2003	To Top
January	First credentials presentation by L&AN to Lee Valley Regional Park Authority for Gunpowder Park
February	London Rivers, members’ event at Cowcross Gallery. Jeff Higley, The Lee Valley Messenger, A New Dug Out Canoe for an Ancient River. Edith Slee, The Bankside STEWards, The Archeology, Ecology and Preservation of the Thames
March	Journal No.28 (East London Public Arts) with sponsorship from Lee Valley Regional Park Authority
March	Network appointed as a Consortium member of Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust’s development of Independent Quarry project, funded by DEFRA’s MIST programme (Mineral Industry Sustainable Technology) for the Independent Quarry
May	Portland Sculpture and Quarry sculpture weekend Independent Vision, Seminar organised jointly by PSQT and L&AN; the first official public presentation on Independent Quarry
June	Journal No.29 (Land and Eco Art in the USA)
June	L&AN produces Feasibility Study for Gunpowder Park
June	Floating Islands at Pen Pynfarch Group visit and creative interventions at independent Welsh arts site
August	South East Region dissolved
September	Landscape & Arts Network Services, not for profit company, wholly owned by L&AN, set up by Directors of L&AN
October	Conference: “Land Art and Land Use II, New Landscapes / New Art in association with Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Three day interdisciplinary conference. Speakers included Anna Bowman, YSP; Edward Cullinan, architect; Katy Hallett, Sustrans; Hannah Sofaer, PSQT. L&AN artists interventions in YSP. Conference papers published in the Journal
November	Journal No. 30 (Land Art and Land Use II)
November	10th AGM, Cowcross Gallery Special resolution passes; Network members merge with Charity
2004	To Top
January	English Nature agrees partnership with L&AN, “Breaking New Ground”, two commissions for art in the environment
January	10^th Anniversary Celebration, co hosted with Free Form, at Hothouse, Hackney.
February	Seminar: Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust- Drill Hall Learningstone Centre - Independent Quarry
March	Lecture: Francis Carr, Nature into Art; Sculpture into Landscape Co-hosted by Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
May	Portland Sculpture and Quarry sculpture weekend
June	Official Opening of Gunpowder Park
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