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Meet Tate Britain with Alys Fowler The wild flowers and wayside weeds of Tate

15 September 2014 at 19.30–21.00

Alys Fowler is a gardener and author of the weekly 'Ask Alys' column for the Guardian Weekend magazine.

Join Alys for this horticulturally themed tour looking at hidden or incidental flowers and weeds in Tate Britain's collection displays. By exploring their meaning and historical context, this tour encourages us to reimagine the paintings and their meanings. Are the flora symbolic or designed to show off the artists' talents? What do they tell us about the status of imported or native plants, new social trends and other forms of meaning?

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15 September 2014 at 19.30–21.00

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  • Peter Fischli and David Weiss Image from Untitled (Flowers) 1998 one

    The flowering of a new unreality?

    Jan Avgikos

    Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s first New York solo exhibition in 1986 at the Sonnabend Gallery featured replicas of regular household items carved in polyurethane and cast in rubber. Ever since, the pair of Swiss artists who work collaboratively and in an eclectic variety of media have been intuitively in sync with the changing face of contemporary art

  • David Attenborough on Alexander Marshal (1620 -1682)

    Alison Smith

    Over the coming weeks a number of guest contributors will be sharing their favourite watercolours on the Tate blog. This week, David Attenborough discusses Alexander Marshal, an artist who painted for pleasure and shared Attenborough's passion for nature

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