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A new festival at Kew showcases a diverse range of voices and artists by exploring their relationship to plants and nature, writes Sarah Simpkin
Decimus Burton’s Temperate House at Kew Gardens reopened in 2018 following a six-year restoration project by Donald Insall Associates. During their analysis of the building, paint studies revealed that in the 1860s, its walls were stone-coloured, with pale blue and white decoration, and that later blocks were originally painted green. This was all covered by white titanium dioxide in the 1950s. Now colour is back, in the form of bold, bright installations for Kew’s Queer Nature festival this October – a celebration of LGBTQ+ voices, and the diversity and beauty of its plants and fungi.
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