Holland Park Artist Residency 2026
The Holland Park Artist Residency forms part of the arts programme developed with Justin Hibbs and Daisy Green Collection. The residency brings together photography, ecology, exhibitions, workshops and public gatherings, using Holland Park as a living site for attention, image-making, conversation and ecological reflection.
Across 2026, the residency is part of two connected strands: Being Nature, a seasonal exhibition programme, and Sensing Earth, a series of artist and scholar-led workshops. Together, they invite visitors to meet London’s parks as places of deep time, public life, ecological change and shared imagination.
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UNDER THIS ONE TREE
Summer Exhibition | Alan McFetridge
Alan McFetridge, Under This One Tree, 2026.
Resident Artist at Holland Park
Curated by Justin Hibbs
Opening Reception: Summer Solstice, 21 June, 4 - 8pm
Daisy Green Holland Park W8 6LU
“Which doesn’t, of course, excuse our part in the burning. Because ‘How can we live anywhere else but in this one tree?’” - Robert Adams.
Under This One Tree is the Summer Exhibition in the 2026 Daisy Green Collection Artist Residency, presented at Holland Park Café. The Arts programme is curated by Justin Hibbs and developed over twelve months in and around Holland Park. The exhibition began with McFetridge's return to observing trees as living presences, ordinary and profound: forms of shelter, exposure, dependence, memory and time.
The title draws on a line from Zbigniew Herbert’s 1957 poem A Small Bird, first published in 1957. McFetridge encountered the line through a handwritten letter from the American photographer Robert Adams, sent after Adams saw McFetridge’s book On The Line. In the letter, Adams quoted Herbert’s question: “How can we live anywhere else but in this one tree?”
Above: Detail, Robert Adams letter to Alan McFetridge, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
“Entering Holland Park through the northern gate, there is an immediate sense of sanctuary in crossing into a hidden garden. The threshold is felt at once. The pace changes as if the body were being submerged in water, but more subtly. The density of trees changes the air and the floor. In that change, I return to the recognition, Ko te whenua, he whenua, the land is land. Ground remains ground for everybody. I began using exposures of up to ten minutes as a way to slow myself down and commune with the trees and the ancestry at a pace, I imagine, that is nearer to theirs. For us, ten minutes can feel like a duration. For a tree, it is closer to the space of one breath. Photography gives me a way to sense that difference.” - Alan McFetridge.
Exhibition continues to 19 September.
Open to the public and by appointment
With thanks to Friends of Holland Park, Daisy Green Collection, Tom, Prue, Zoe and the Holland Park Café team for supporting the residency, exhibition and wider public programme. Also to Justin Hibbs for his curation and shaping of the Daisy Green Collection Artist Residency and Being Nature Arts Programme.
Workshops and Public Programme
Sensing Earth is a programme of artist and scholar-led workshops across Holland Park. Through walking, writing, drawing, movement and ecological attention, each session invites participants to meet London’s parks as living landscapes on the last Sunday of the month. 11am- 2pm
Anna May, Rainbow 2026.
About the Workshop:
What does it mean to dream? Is it a coincidence that we use the same word for the stories we travel through at night and the hopes we have for our future? What desires are living in our subconscious, waiting to be seen? What is holding us back, and is it ready to be let go?
How can nature and the elements - earth, water, fire, air - inspire, hold and amplify the dreams we have for ourselves and our communities?
We’ll explore these questions together through simple listening, gathering, writing and drawing activities. This is less a space to decide, declare or build, and more a space for rest, reflection, and the gentle planting of seeds.
Daisy Green has generously provided the space, and refreshments are included in the ticket. Proceeds from ticket sales go directly to the artist.
Dreaming with the Elements
Anna May
Artist Run Workshop
Holland Park Café
31 May, 11am - 2pm
Sensing Earth & Being Nature 2026
In 2026, the pilot programme that began in Holland Park in 2025 with Justin Hibbs and Daisy Green Collection expands into a seasonal public programme across two of London’s significant landscapes: Holland Park in West London and Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath.
The programme brings exhibitions, artist and scholar-led workshops and open-air summer dances into direct relationship with the living landscape. It treats the park as ancestral ground, a collaborator and a shared civic place.
Limited Edition A2 Print
Seasonal Arts Programme across Holland Park and Parliament Hill
Being Nature presents four exhibitions curated by Justin Hibbs.
Sensing Earth is a series of nine artist and scholar-led workshops
We are interested in how art can deepen our relationship with urban nature at a time of accelerating climate instability. Working across contrasting ecologies, from the enclosed gardens of Holland Park to the open skyline and grasslands of Parliament Hill, we invite participants to observe seasonal change, reflect on environmental responsibility, and experience the park as a living system and relational body.
Supported by the Daisy Green Collection
Holland Park Art Exhibitions
Being Nature Exhibition Dates
Winter till 18 March 2026
Diana Taylor
Workshop 29 March
Spring 20 March to 18 June
Fabio Almeida, Ralph Anderson, Hermione Allsopp
Private View 22 March 6pm - 8pm
Summer Exhibition
UNDER THIS ONE TREE
Alan McFetridge
Resident Artist at Holland Park Café
Inaugural exhibition of the Holland Park Café Artist Residency
21 June to 19 September 2026
Private View: Sunday 21 June, 4 pm
Autumn 20 September to 20 December
Marco Walker
Private View
Locations
Daisy Green Holland Park Cafe, West London
Holland Park Workshops
11am -2pm on the last Sunday of the Month
Mar 29 - Diana Taylor
Apr 26 - Daria Hlazatova
May 31 - Anna May
Jun 28 - Professor Kélina Gotman
Jul 26 - Yue Hu
Aug 30 - Dr Neelambari Phalkey
Sep 27 - Dr Dominique Savitri Bonarjee
Oct 25 - Adriana Pages
Nov 29 - Professor Kate Maclean
Contact
For press, partnerships, and enquiries:
alan@alan-mcfetridge.com
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Centre for Ecological Philosophy
Alan McFetridge
Visit and join a workshop
The residency is open to the public throughout the year at Holland Park Café, Ilchester Place, London W8 6LU.
Visitors are welcome to drop in, walk, journal, or simply observe.
Follow the Centre of Ecological Philosophy for updates on workshops and new works created in the park.