THE OLIVE NETWORK EXHIBITION AT TREMENHEERE SCULPTURE GARDENS - AN ONLINE ADAPTATION

The Olive Network Exhibition was scheduled to take place at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens in May 2020, but was postponed due to Covid-19 and is now launching as an online exhibition. Within the website you will find paintings contributed by international artists, music, films and stories drawn from the curated stories on the Olive Network (ON). Our aim is to connect positive change makers by tilting society’s lens to the progressive long term thinking of charities, the arts, science and humanities (alongside creating forums engaging in deliberative democracy).

The exhibition was to be a physical interpretation of the online ON project - a fountain, an olive tree, an exhibition of paintings, a wall size digital display telling stories and an interactive world map. There were to be talks and symposia illustrating how we hope to be a part of the progressive change enabled by the internet, acknowledging the good things people are doing and connecting positive change makers on a global scale built on the foundations of the compassion of the centuries.

When ON invited the artists to exhibit we loosely outlined a plot, hoping that they would submit works that were significant to the ethos of ON.  It turns out that a theme has emerged; from Lisa Wright’s Blossom Keeper to Nicola Bealing’s Boy with a Burning Heart, from Gordon Ellis Brown’s XV11 (Space) to Hugh Mendes’ Don’t Forget Earth and Jesse Leroy Smith’s Great Editor in the Sky, all are suggesting we look at our home in a different way. And with a passion for the finite beauty that is life.

The olive tree can live for over 2,000 years and still bear fruit. It can provide light, shelter, food, fuel and healing. For thousands of years, the olive tree has served as a symbol of sacredness, peace and unity.

We believe the Olive Network is an inclusive democratic network fit for progressive change in the 21st century.

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