TEN YEARS OF GABRIEL OROZCO’S LIVING ARTWORK

Behind South London Gallery in Peckham, an artwork has spent a decade growing into itself. Gabriel Orozco’s garden opened in 2016, transforming a largely inaccessible paved space into a place to sit, wander and see things differently.

Created with support from architecture firm 6a architects and plant specialists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the garden carries one of the Mexican artist’s recurring ideas into the landscape: the circle. Interlocking curves in York stone create changing levels and intimate spaces, with planting woven through the geometry. The work invites use as much as observation.

On October 16, Casa Dragones joined South London Gallery for a luncheon marking its tenth anniversary. It was a fitting occasion for an artwork whose life depends on people spending time within it.

A decade on, the garden remains an invitation to slow down. Its next chapter is still growing.