World of art
day out at Wakehurst, Kew's wild botanic garden in Sussex, is an opportunity to see a world Foremost are five newly commissioned outdoor art installations, specially created in response to Kew Science research projects. Among these is UK Young Arts of the Year nominee Malgorzata Lisiecka's reflection on the power of fungi with a 3D interactive sculpture (top left). A large-scale installation from Flea Folly Architects, (left), uses the African wild banana relative, to highlight its possible use as a climate-smart crop of the future, while artist John Grade, whose previous installations include (top right), is creating a large, suspended sculpture that rises and falls in response to rainfall and is inspired by the high-altitude Páramo ecosystem of the Colombian Andes. Until 18 September, 10am-6pm (After Hours 11-14 and 18-21 August, 6-9pm, booking essential). Entry from £14.95.
