SECRET GARDEN

Curated by Kitty Clark

Alex Xerri Bridgette McNab Carissa Karamarko
David Whitworth Ella Bendrups Fiona Alvarez Justin Scivetti
Saxon Quinn Susan Jacobsen Olympia Antoniadis

11 December 2020 – 10 January 2021

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“The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light.” – Sandra Kring

2020 has been a year unlike any other in recent history, Saint Cloche are breaking tradition and will have not one Group End of Year Show but two!
Drawing inspiration from ‘The Secret Garden’ by Frances Hodgson Burnett, as well as the most-beloved 1949 film adaptation. We invite you to explore a hidden sanctuary of serenity and wonder.

“Now is the time to plant seeds of positivity and vision in our collective Secret Garden.” – Kitty Clark

In an age over-cluttered by technology and information overload, pandemics, climate crisis and global unrest, it is good to be reminded consciously how infinitely superior is a child’s world reached through the imagination, where to scatter seeds and watch them grow through the earth and flower is a miracle that we cling to for its magic more than ever.

At the heart of the story of ‘The Secret Garden’ is an orphan and her friends – children who spend one Summer bringing back to life a walled-in garden that had been deserted and neglected for many years. It is the story of the spirit of rebirth, that through nurturing nature, life flows back into our own veins once more.

In life what appears to be dead may in fact be lying dormant within the fecund earth, full of potent potentiality and awaiting the right conditions to thrive once again. This tale of transformation is rejoicing in nature, the healing power of the changing seasons and nature’s effect on the human spirit. We nurture nature and nature nourishes us.

‘The Secret Garden’ is a metaphor for the cultivation of the human mind and the power of positive thinking.

Now more than ever, we need to pay attention to how we cultivate the mind because our thoughts become ‘us’, and then ‘we’ become the world. “One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts – just mere thoughts – are as powerful as electric batteries – as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.” – The Secret Garden.