First exhibited at Canary Wharf, London. Hugh Turvey, Artist in Residence of the British Institute of Radiology, was commissioned to prepare 10 pieces of X-ray art entitled “Hidden Garden”, for the Canary Wharf Group to be displayed in the Foster & Partners Crossrail Place Roof Garden this year. While the original plans necessarily had to evolve, the exhibition will be touring a number of sites where it will be showcased over 2021, some of which are listed below.

About the Exhibit

Hidden Garden is an aesthetic scientific representation of flora and algae, using the medium of x-ray imaging to highlight the hidden architectural structures within the subjects. Each image covers a theme including sustainability, habitat, pollinators and medicinal, each with a caption explaining the science, research or statistics behind the image.

This exhibition has been created during the pandemic. COVID-19 has caused a global health crisis and forced economies to shut down in the face of strict quarantine measures. However, the outbreak has had some unexpected positive impacts on Earth’s environment as nations restrict the movement of people and perhaps now is the time to re-balance our relationship with nature.

Hugh Turvey, x-ray Artist, London

Aesthetic reinvention of x-ray that bridges the gap between art/science, graphic design and pure photography. His work is exhibited globally. Clients include private collectors, art agents, galleries and corporations. Other agency collaborations include marketing/advertising, design/publishing, TV/film, architectural/interior design.

The main supporting partner is Fauna & Flora International but Algae-UK and Cambridge Conservation Initiative are also supporting this exhibition.

Exhibition dates:

14 - 16 April 2021, Algae-UK Festival of Algae (online)

21 June - Aug 2021, Summer Lights Festival, Crossrail Place Roof Garden, Canary Wharf, London, UK

29 April - 8 May 2022, Gentse Floraliën, (Royal Society for Agriculture and Botany npo) Belgium

1-30th Sep 2022, Paleis Het Loo Royal Palace, Apeldoorn, Netherlands