2025 HOLLAND PARK RESIDENCY

Introduction

The Holland Park Residency is the inaugural pilot programme for the Daisy Green Collection, conceived by artist and curator Justin Hibbs and hosted at Holland Park Café, London. Photographer and researcher Alan McFetridge leads the residency, transforming the café and surrounding park into a living studio for ecological reflection and creative exchange.

Purpose

The residency explores how art can deepen our relationship with the natural world. Through conversations, collective walks, and artist-led workshops, McFetridge invites the public to exchange engaging with current affairs with the , observe, and reconnect with the living systems that sustain urban life.

Public Programme

Under the banner Artist Run Nature Workshops and Sensing Earth Explorations, monthly gatherings invite visitors, artists, and local communities to take part in reflective and creative encounters with place. Each event is a shared space for dialogue followed by walking, journaling, and quiet observation in the park.

Living Under The One Tree, Holland Park. June, 2025. by Alan McFetridge.

Outcomes

The residency nurtures both long-form and short-form creative outcomes:

A forthcoming book, developed on-site, expanding McFetridge’s long-term research into landscape fire and regeneration.
A series of community workshops and artworks, designed to build local connection and collective ecological awareness.

Exhibitions

Unique to the Holland Park site, artist and curator Justin Hibbs curates three to four exhibitions each year as part of the Daisy Green Collection’s new art programme.

A permanent installation of On The Line forms the visual centrepiece of the residency. Shown inside the café, these works trace the aftermath of the Fort McMurray fires in Alberta, setting the tone for an ongoing conversation about regeneration, resilience, and ecological care.

Alongside this, a Work in Progress area presents new pieces created in the park — photographs, writings, and materials emerging from the Sensing Earth walks and Artist Run Nature Workshops. Updated throughout the year, this evolving display invites visitors to witness the residency as a living process of observation, reflection, and making.

Visit and join a workshop

The residency is open to the public throughout the year at Holland Park Café, Ilchester Place, London W8 6LU.

The Sunday of the every month (excluding December) are artist run workshops related to developing connections to the rest of nature.

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.

For further information on this project please contact the Studio