{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"DES Talks","title":"Exploring Hospitalfield, Arbroath","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2761,"description":"Welcome to DES Talks. In this episode Susanna explores Hospitalfield, an extraordinary 19th century Scots Baronial cum Arts and Craft house with a glorious walled garden that is dedicated to contemporary art and ideas.\nLocated on Scotland's east coast a skip away from the North Sea and the town of Arbroath, Hospitalfield was built by Patrick and Elizabeth Allan-Fraser as their home. Arbroath-born Patrick who studied art at Edinburgh of College of Art was determined that Hospitalfield become a home for artists, building light-filled studios in 1901.\nOver a 100 years later, Hospitalfield today welcomes art practitioners from around the world and offers workshops and welcomes the general public. The celebrated architects, Caruso St John, have built a cafe, a fernery and restored the studio spaces. And a few years back the visionary plantsman and garden designer, Nigel Dunnett, devised a beauteous planting scheme for the walled garden.\nSusanna speaks to Hospitafleld's director Lucy Byatt, architect Peter St John and artist, choreography and performer, Florence Peake. Florence recently staged Ode to the Dark, a collaboration with Scottish Dance Theatre at Hospitalfield. A processional performance that excavates the realms of loss, Florence talks about her work and the ongoing exhibition at Hospitalfield, Your Meaning Not Your Materiality.\nLucy also talks about the work of Nigel Dunnett who died earlier this year and the prestigious International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens which has just been awarded to Hospitalfield.\nHosptifalfield\nFlorence Peake\nCaruso St John Architects\nNigel Dunnett\nThe International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens\nWatch Florence's 2025 peformance of To Love and To Cherish at Jupiter Artland.\nThanks so much for listening to our DES Talks conversation, we do hope you enjoyed it. Please do spread the word, share, subscribe and rate and rave - we really want to share these conversations far and wide! \n\nAnd don’t forget to explore our previous...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/M6ZBzbq7ifqt1qZC4EGIWhi8Zl70NhK5Aj5-KN70JnI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85NmNh/OWU0M2Y2MThjMTc1/ODMwNWNkNzNkMjM5/NTk4MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}