Description
Chatsworth, home to the Devonshire family for over 450 years, is one of England’s most iconic historic houses. As a registered charity, Chatsworth House Trust is dedicated to looking after the house, collections, garden, and parkland, for everyone. Chatsworth served as the inspiration and filming location for Pemberley in the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Drawing on this heritage, The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth explores the enduring relationship between humans and nature through the universal language of flowers. Combining historic artworks and botanical treasures from Chatsworth with contemporary responses from leading artists, the exhibition presents flowers as symbols of fragility and resilience. Through themes including permanence and the ephemeral, beauty and horror, and sexuality and the senses, it reflects on vulnerability, renewal and survival, inviting audiences to reconsider their connection to the natural world.
Now touring internationally, it offers museums a poetic and culturally resonant experience engaging nature, art and humanity.
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