LONDON.- Tate announced that The Tate Britain Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith and generously funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation and Project Giving Back, has been awarded a gold medal at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Presenting a bold new vision for how art, nature and community interact, the show garden offers a taster of the forthcoming Clore Garden, also designed by Stuart-Smith, due to open at Tate Britain on London’s Millbank in 2027.

The garden takes cues from East Asian woodlands, and features resilient drought-tolerant plants suitable for London’s rising temperatures which look to the future of Tate Britain’s site. At its heart is a 1949 sculpture from the nation’s art collection, Bicentric Form by Dame Barbara Hepworth; a circular bench cast from reused materials; and a golden water channel inspired by mycorrhizal fungi.

After the Show, the garden will be incorporated into the wider Clore Garden project on Millbank, which is currently undergoing construction.

Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain, said: “It’s brilliant news that the Tate Britain Garden has been awarded a prestigious gold medal at Chelsea, and Tate’s thanks and admiration go to Tom Stuart-Smith and his team for their tireless work in designing and creating this haven of art and horticulture. We know visitors cannot wait to see this beautiful garden realised on an even larger scale when the Clore Garden at Tate Britain opens next year, where they will be able to enjoy a restful space built on principles of sustainability and biodiversity which will transform the gallery façade.”

Tom Stuart-Smith, Designer of the Tate Britain Garden and the forthcoming Clore Garden, said: “This gold medal belongs to everyone involved in the making of the Tate Britain Garden, the result of an extraordinary collective effort. We wanted to make a show garden that gives people a taster of the exciting Clore Garden we are creating at Tate Britain, a welcoming public space of the highest quality that is open to all. I’m especially grateful to the Clore Duffield Foundation and Project Giving Back who funded this garden at Chelsea, and to Crocus who built it.”

The Tate Britain Garden will continue to inspire the public on the Show’s Main Avenue (stand number 324) and across the BBC coverage in the week ahead.