The Daily Telegraph have asked Sarah Price to design their garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2012. Sarah has exhibited both at Chelsea and at Hampton Court and is closely involved with the landscaping of the Olympic Park. Specifically, Sarah has been responsible for the planting design of the ‘2012 Gardens’, which will be the centrepiece of the Olympic Park, running half a mile along the banks of the River Lea.
SARAH PRICE is currently working in a team with LDA Design. Hargreaves Associates on the 2012 Olympic Park. A former gardener at Hampton Court Palace, Sarah is at the core of the team responsible for the largest new urban park in the capital since the nineteenth century. Specifically, Price has been responsible for the planting design of the ‘2012 Gardens’, which will be the centrepiece of the Olympic Park, running half a mile along the banks of the River Lea.
In addition to her work on the Olympic park, Sarah regularly collaborates with award winning architectural practices such as MUMA, Edward Cullinan Architects, LDA Design and Hargreaves Associates.
Sarah is a regular speaker at industry symposiums and has recently lectured in Seattle for the North West Horticultural Society, at Kew’s Royal Botanical Gardens, and at the London Festival of Architecture. She is also a regular lecturer in design at the Department of Landscape at Sheffield University and at the KLC school of design in London.
Designs and installations have been exhibited at the Newlyn Art Gallery in 2005, in The V&A’s Raphael Gallery in 2006, at the Garden Museum in 2007 & 2010 and at the National Trust’s Tattershall Castle in 2009. Sarah writes for BBC Garden’s Illustrated (2011-2012) and her work has been covered extensively in the press with features in Vogue, The RIBA Journal, House and Garden and recently, BBC Gardeners’ Question Time.
BACKGROUND:
Sarah Price graduated with a First class BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art in 2002 before working as a full time gardener at Hampton Court Palace. Sarah went on to study Residential Landscape Architecture (PG Dip) at the Oxford College of Garden Design in 2004.
Sarah has since exhibited at the Hampton Court Flower Show in 2006, winning a RHS Gold medal in the Conceptual Show Garden Category. In 2007 and 2008 Sarah exhibited in the Show Garden category at the Chelsea Flower Show winning RHS Silver flora medals for sponsor QVC.