Session #4 Exeter Artnership Fundraising Workshop

About

Session four:
Date: Thursday 9th October
Time: 12-2pm
Venue: Studio 2 Exeter Phoenix
Capacity: 30
Title: Exeter Artnership Fundraising Workshops - The Romance of Fundraising
Speaker: Christopher Woodward - The Garden Museum
Details:
Christopher Woodward has been director of the Garden Museum in London since 2007. He led a £7.5 million reconstruction and extension of the site and gardens, creating new galleries of garden history and spaces for learning, and setting up Britain's first archive of garden design in 2017.
Christopher is an historian of architecture and gardens. He was previously director of the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, England, and a curator at Sir John Soane's Museum. He has also served as a board member of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the UK's national body responsible for funding both built and natural heritage. His book In Ruins (2001) was short-listed for the national prize for young writers, and he has just completed a study of the history of nostalgia. Christopher's personal obsession is swimming, and  to help raise funds for the Garden Museum, he has done swims of the Hellespont, Strait of Gibraltar, the 110 miles of the River Thames from Oxford to London, 30 km within the Arctic Circle, 63 miles in the Peloponnese, each swim inspired by botanist John Tradescant (1580-1638), whose life is the inspiration of the Garden Museum.