AUDIO DESCRIPTION GUIDE
to accompany the exhibition
M A R Y M A R Y
3 October 2024 – 3 September 2025
The Audio Description Guide for MARY MARY follows a trail around The Artist’s Garden with descriptions of each of the works. You are invited to touch all the work on display. You will hear the title of each artwork, the name of the artist; a physical description of each work and the idea behind the work. Some of the works have historical and literary references; these are often at the end of each description.
There are 10 artworks by 9 artists. Visitors are free to explore the exhibition in any direction. This guide will take you in a clockwise direction visiting each of the 10 artworks in turn. It is a circular route and you will end up where you started, at the top of the entrance stairway. Please note, one of the artworks in the exhibition is a moveable bench on wheels and so may have moved. Don’t worry! You will come across it eventually as it is bright yellow and hard to miss.
This guide will run for approximately 40 minutes. We recommend that you pause this recording after each artwork description to allow you to spend time with the work. Press start when you’re ready to move on to the next artwork. Alternatively you can download the Guide for each artwork as separate files below.
There is a large format text transcript of this audio guide available to download here.
The Audio Description Guide for MARY MARY is supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture grant programme.
About The Artist’s Garden
theCOLAB is an independent women-led collaborative laboratory working to bring together people, land and art by realising artists’ most far-flung and life-affirming work in response to places beyond the confines of the white cube for the public. The Artist’s Garden transformed the neglected half acre rooftop on Temple tube station into a vast free public sculpture garden to give women artists the opportunity to make their first, early or greatest outdoor sculptural intervention to promote greater appreciation of their work in public. The annual programme comprises major and smaller scale commissions and theCOLAB/Royal College of Art/Yorkshire Sculpture Park Graduate Award residency. theCOLAB is a registered charity. www.thecolab.art / @thecolab.art
MARY MARY and The Artist’s Garden is realised in partnership with and supported by Westminster City Council and private philanthropists with support from the British Council’s Connections Through Culture Grant for Rong Bao’s Yellow Path and with the kind permission of LUL/Transport for London. With thanks to WSP UK, Frieze 91 and Mezcal Reina for their support.
For more information, images or to arrange an interview please contact Mary Doherty / mary@sam-talbot.com.