COMING SOON at THE ARTIST’S GARDEN:
FLORENCE PEAKE
LINDER
ADELINE de MONSEIGNAT
OPENING CELEBRATION 16 MAY 2026
From 12pm - 7pm with exact timings to be announced
At The Artist’s Garden, on the roof terrace above Temple Tube Station, Temple Terrace
Photo taken by Florence Peake. Performers: Joe Moran, Rodrigo Peñalosa, Catherine Hoffman, Donovan Morris, Mathilda Laird
Adeline de Monseignat, Croissant, 2025. Photo courtesy the Artist and Bo Lee Gallery. Photographed by Dave Watts.
Build Hollywood x Linder x Edinburgh Arts Festival, 2025 (detail) Photo courtesy Build Hollywood
Now in its fifth year, the Artist's Garden continues to flourish in partnership with and supported by Westminster City Council. As the world’s only sculpture garden dedicated to the pioneering work of women artists, it is an important platform for them demonstrate their extraordinary contributions to the language of sculpture and their appetite to work often at scale, in the outdoors, for the public. In 2026, Florence Peake, Linder and Adeline de Monseignat bring their work to the Artist's Garden for the first time, opening on Saturday 16 May 2026.
theCOLAB has commissioned Florence Peake to make her first outdoor public sculptures as part of her expansive project Your Meaning Not Your Materiality (YMNYM) which gives form to the vitalities’ left when someone dies. Following on from her performance lecture at ‘Taking Place: Women Artists in Public Space’ the conference at KCL in June 2025, Peake’s two live public performances on 16 May 2026 involve plaster poured between choreographed bodies.
Iconic feminist artist Linder will envelope the Artist’s Hut in a technicolour photomontage transforming its exterior into a beacon of collective female power and provocation. The Artist’s Hut is at the heart of the Artist’s Garden. A marker of home, community, welcome and ownership it hosts our embedded youth education programme with Westminster's City Lions and our annual Artist in Residence Award. Designed with utmost simplicity, it is the site of a yearly intervention by a female artist.
Adeline de Monseignat will create a garden within the garden, as an invitation to contemplate the world through the eyes of a child. The biomorphic forms of these sculptures, made from hand-applied smooth white river pebbles, are drawn from the movements, gestures and imaginative wanderings of small children as they busy themselves with play and learning.
About Florence Peake
Florence Peake was born in 1973 and lives and works in London. She is known for her solo and group performance works and extensive visual art practice, since 1995. Her approach is at once sensual and witty, expressive and rigorous. By encouraging chaotic relationships between the body and material, Peake creates radical and outlandish performances. YMNYM premiered at Leeds Art Gallery in 2024. Other exhibitions include Factual Actual Exhibition and Performance from The National Gallery, SPG, Fruitmarket Edinburgh, Towner Gallery Eastbourne; Hayward Gallery’s touring British Art Show 9, Venice Biennale 2019; CRAC Occitanie, Sète, France, London Contemporary Music Festival, UK 2018, De La Warr Pavilion, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, Hayward Gallery, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. She lives and works in London.
About Linder
Linder was born in Liverpool in 1954 and lives and works in London. In February 2025, she opened a major retrospective Danger Came Smiling at the Hayward Gallery, London which toured to Inverleith House, Edinburgh; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and will soon tour to Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool until September 2026. The touring show Linderism was mounted in 2020 at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, later travelling to the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. The solo exhibition Femme/Objet, was organised in 2013 by the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, later travelling to the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover. Linder has presented recent solo exhibitions at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute (2025); Charleston, Firle (2022); Modern Art, London (2019); Glasgow Women’s Library (2018); Nottingham Contemporary (2018); Chatsworth House, Derbyshire (2018); The Hepworth Wakefield (2013); and Tate St Ives (2013). She has participated in recent two-person and group exhibitions at dépendance, Brussels (2022); Tate Liverpool (2021); the Royal Academy, London (2020); Camden Art Centre, London (2020); the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2019); and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2019). In 2017, she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award. Linder’s works are held in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Arts Council Collection, London; the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Tate, London.
About Adeline de Monseignat
Adeline de Monseignat was born in 1987 and is a Dutch-Monegasque artist living and working between Mexico City and London. Monseignat completed a Foundation in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art and holds degrees from University College London, and City & Guilds of London Art School. Her work has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Casa Wabi Foundation and Jumex in Mexico, the Malls Galleries and the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, and at art fairs including Art Brussels and Zona Maco, as well as galleries including Nahmad Projects, Victoria Miro, Cadogan, Bo Lee and Workman, Colector and MASA Galería. Her immersive installations invite personal and collective reflection, offering encounters that are at once immersive, symbolic and introspective.
About theCOLAB
theCOLAB is an independent, women-led collaborative laboratory and registered charity that unites people, land and art. We commission epic, life-affirming and career-defining sculptural works in undervalued and underused outdoor public spaces across the country from a coastal commissioning programme in Morecambe Bay to our exploratory drawing residency BODY and PLACE in the West of England. theCOLAB’s headline project, The Artist’s Garden, based on the roof terrace above Temple Tube Station in London is the world’s first and only sculpture garden dedicated to the pioneering work of women artists. It is a beacon for best practice in putting back into use neglected public space and a platform for achieving gender parity in outdoor public sculpture and beyond.
About The Artist’s Garden
The Artist's Garden has transformed a 1,400sqm hidden and neglected roof terrace above Temple tube station into a place for the public to experience large-scale artistic interventions by women artists through a vibrant programme of artist commissions, residencies in the Artist's Hut and an education programme for 13-16 year olds with Westminster’s City Lions. Situated next to Somerset House and accessible by steps from Temple Place, it is open to the public all day every day, for free, from 8am until dusk.
The Artist’s Garden is located on the roof terrace above Temple tube station. The address is The Artist’s Garden, Temple Place, London WC2R 2PH. What3Words ///leads.battle.recent. Please note that there 10 steps from street level to access the roof terrace.
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC every day 8am – dusk. @thecolab.art www.thecolab.art for updates and events.
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This exhibition is supported by Arts Council England, Calliope Arts Foundation, Westminster City Council St James’s Councillors’ Ward Budget Programme, Westminster City Lions and Young Westminster Foundation.
The Artist’s Garden is in partnership with and supported by
with philanthropic support from Nina and Samuel Wisnia, private philanthropists, with the kind permission of TfL/LUL