Charlie Gregson
@charliegregson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies & freelance arts business & grants coach. Currently working with botanical gardens to diversify narratives
Digging around at Birmingham Archives to learn about the history of Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ glasshouses. I was looking for connections between India and Thomas Clarke or John Jones, the manufacturer and designer but instead found Clarke’s philanthropic deeds & poetry
@bhambotanicalgardens
@bhambotanicalgardens
September 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Digging around at Birmingham Archives to learn about the history of Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ glasshouses. I was looking for connections between India and Thomas Clarke or John Jones, the manufacturer and designer but instead found Clarke’s philanthropic deeds & poetry
@bhambotanicalgardens
@bhambotanicalgardens
Poking around exquisite cottages and designer manor houses at the Wirksworth Festival. So many beautiful home studios and accomplished artists as well as the quirky Museum of Roadside Magic and kids activities to spark inspiration
@wirksworthfestival @museumofroadsidemagic
@wirksworthfestival @museumofroadsidemagic
September 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Poking around exquisite cottages and designer manor houses at the Wirksworth Festival. So many beautiful home studios and accomplished artists as well as the quirky Museum of Roadside Magic and kids activities to spark inspiration
@wirksworthfestival @museumofroadsidemagic
@wirksworthfestival @museumofroadsidemagic
September 9, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Beautiful staging in the @clumberparknt glasshouse displays. The ostentatious display of dried flowers gives a nod to its history to impress guests with exotic produce and reveals the abundance of the garden and the scale of hard work that went on (and continues) behind the scenes
September 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Beautiful staging in the @clumberparknt glasshouse displays. The ostentatious display of dried flowers gives a nod to its history to impress guests with exotic produce and reveals the abundance of the garden and the scale of hard work that went on (and continues) behind the scenes
The extensively restored Grade II listed Conservatory and Palmhouse at Clumber Park looking stunning in its walled garden setting. The roof has over 800 panes of glass, which all had to be removed, cleaned and reused where possible, as well as addressing the significant timber rot across the frame.
September 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The extensively restored Grade II listed Conservatory and Palmhouse at Clumber Park looking stunning in its walled garden setting. The roof has over 800 panes of glass, which all had to be removed, cleaned and reused where possible, as well as addressing the significant timber rot across the frame.
Immersive, uncanny installations were a massive inspiration as an art student so it was amazing to stumble across Mike Nelson’s ‘Humpty Dumpty’ show at @fruitmarket.bsky.social
Good to see the evolution of his work w 1:1 scale photos strapped to salvaged beams, ripped stud walls & lights left bare
Good to see the evolution of his work w 1:1 scale photos strapped to salvaged beams, ripped stud walls & lights left bare
August 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Immersive, uncanny installations were a massive inspiration as an art student so it was amazing to stumble across Mike Nelson’s ‘Humpty Dumpty’ show at @fruitmarket.bsky.social
Good to see the evolution of his work w 1:1 scale photos strapped to salvaged beams, ripped stud walls & lights left bare
Good to see the evolution of his work w 1:1 scale photos strapped to salvaged beams, ripped stud walls & lights left bare
A satisfying display of specimens in jars 👌
Beautiful interpretation at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Beautiful interpretation at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
August 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A satisfying display of specimens in jars 👌
Beautiful interpretation at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Beautiful interpretation at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Imagine summarising an academic lecture on decolonising botanical gardens and polyvocal interpretation, live with almost no notes in advance, in illustrated form.
That’s just what @niftyfoxcreative did at @nottinghamtrentuni Institute of Knowledge Exchange Practice conference - an amazing talent!
That’s just what @niftyfoxcreative did at @nottinghamtrentuni Institute of Knowledge Exchange Practice conference - an amazing talent!
July 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Imagine summarising an academic lecture on decolonising botanical gardens and polyvocal interpretation, live with almost no notes in advance, in illustrated form.
That’s just what @niftyfoxcreative did at @nottinghamtrentuni Institute of Knowledge Exchange Practice conference - an amazing talent!
That’s just what @niftyfoxcreative did at @nottinghamtrentuni Institute of Knowledge Exchange Practice conference - an amazing talent!
Fab insights into research and impact at Nottingham Trent University’s Institute of Knowledge Exchange conference.
Here’s Harriet! We’ve grown the Heritage & Communities network to 153 members, incl organisations such as National Trust, Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Arts Council England
Here’s Harriet! We’ve grown the Heritage & Communities network to 153 members, incl organisations such as National Trust, Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Arts Council England
July 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Fab insights into research and impact at Nottingham Trent University’s Institute of Knowledge Exchange conference.
Here’s Harriet! We’ve grown the Heritage & Communities network to 153 members, incl organisations such as National Trust, Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Arts Council England
Here’s Harriet! We’ve grown the Heritage & Communities network to 153 members, incl organisations such as National Trust, Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Arts Council England
A deep dive into decolonising gardens on Day 1 of the #gardens&empires conference, followed by the Unearthed exhibition at The British Library
I’m struck the quality of research but also keen to hear more on how research will involve more diverse voices and provide platforms for social change
I’m struck the quality of research but also keen to hear more on how research will involve more diverse voices and provide platforms for social change
June 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A deep dive into decolonising gardens on Day 1 of the #gardens&empires conference, followed by the Unearthed exhibition at The British Library
I’m struck the quality of research but also keen to hear more on how research will involve more diverse voices and provide platforms for social change
I’m struck the quality of research but also keen to hear more on how research will involve more diverse voices and provide platforms for social change
Maybe I shouldn’t have expected more from a collab btw Saatchi Gallery & Peugeot but using vast quantities of plastic plants to “explore the delicate systems that underpin life on Earth” is insulting to the audience. Signage saying the plastic will be reused & recycled adds to the greenwashing
June 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Maybe I shouldn’t have expected more from a collab btw Saatchi Gallery & Peugeot but using vast quantities of plastic plants to “explore the delicate systems that underpin life on Earth” is insulting to the audience. Signage saying the plastic will be reused & recycled adds to the greenwashing
How great are these Co-navigator sets? The workshop started off with personal thinking on whiteboard tiles then we built ideas together using the butterfly technique (voting w pins) and boxes to elevate the most important aspects and consider connections, barriers & aids. Much neater than post its!
May 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
How great are these Co-navigator sets? The workshop started off with personal thinking on whiteboard tiles then we built ideas together using the butterfly technique (voting w pins) and boxes to elevate the most important aspects and consider connections, barriers & aids. Much neater than post its!
Nottingham’s Broadmarsh area of wildflower planting is coming along nicely. There’s something very polished and calming about the contrast of modern and old architecture with naturalistic planting and rock slab seating
May 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Nottingham’s Broadmarsh area of wildflower planting is coming along nicely. There’s something very polished and calming about the contrast of modern and old architecture with naturalistic planting and rock slab seating
Nottingham’s Broadmarsh area of wildflower planting is coming along nicely. There’s something very polished and calming about the contrast of modern and old architecture with naturalistic planting and rock slab seating
May 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Nottingham’s Broadmarsh area of wildflower planting is coming along nicely. There’s something very polished and calming about the contrast of modern and old architecture with naturalistic planting and rock slab seating
Currently reading my husband’s battered copy of “Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire” by Akala - an incredibly powerful memoir and provocation from a key voice in British culture. Easy to read, hard to stomach
May 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Currently reading my husband’s battered copy of “Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire” by Akala - an incredibly powerful memoir and provocation from a key voice in British culture. Easy to read, hard to stomach
Bank holiday reading sorted…well, I can dream of five minutes’ peace to myself 😆 - Banu Subramaniam’s “Botany of Empire.”
Thanks to my wonderful former colleague, Heather Alberro, for the signposting me to it 💚
Thanks to my wonderful former colleague, Heather Alberro, for the signposting me to it 💚
May 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Bank holiday reading sorted…well, I can dream of five minutes’ peace to myself 😆 - Banu Subramaniam’s “Botany of Empire.”
Thanks to my wonderful former colleague, Heather Alberro, for the signposting me to it 💚
Thanks to my wonderful former colleague, Heather Alberro, for the signposting me to it 💚
This AI photo software raises so many questions at @tutankhamunexhibition…how did it know I was an adult female? How many people is this problematic for? And how do I feel coming face to face with its rendering of me as a 50 year old matriarch?
April 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This AI photo software raises so many questions at @tutankhamunexhibition…how did it know I was an adult female? How many people is this problematic for? And how do I feel coming face to face with its rendering of me as a 50 year old matriarch?
Tutankhamun: The Immersive Experience - an exhibition of two halves: several shoddy replicas despite the genuine death mask appearing on marketing with lengthy panels…but breath-taking immersive experiences via VR, hologram and projection
@tutankhamunexhibition
@tutankhamunexhibition
April 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Tutankhamun: The Immersive Experience - an exhibition of two halves: several shoddy replicas despite the genuine death mask appearing on marketing with lengthy panels…but breath-taking immersive experiences via VR, hologram and projection
@tutankhamunexhibition
@tutankhamunexhibition
Facing some fears!
April 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Facing some fears!
The stunning Schloss Oberhofen built on Thunersee in the early 13th century with a sympathetic cafe extension. We were too early in the season for the museum or gardens to be open but got to drink wine on the pier and swim in the crystal clear lake
April 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The stunning Schloss Oberhofen built on Thunersee in the early 13th century with a sympathetic cafe extension. We were too early in the season for the museum or gardens to be open but got to drink wine on the pier and swim in the crystal clear lake
Prehistoric caves in Switzerland. Interesting to see that bbqs are encouraged in the caves with tongs and tools provided next to a donation box and a picnic bench
April 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Prehistoric caves in Switzerland. Interesting to see that bbqs are encouraged in the caves with tongs and tools provided next to a donation box and a picnic bench
A “short walk” in the snow covered Augstmattorn nature reserve. This is just a bog standard 90s diary farm building in the rural area near Thun 🤯
April 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
A “short walk” in the snow covered Augstmattorn nature reserve. This is just a bog standard 90s diary farm building in the rural area near Thun 🤯
Switzerland in Spring 😍
April 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Switzerland in Spring 😍
Loving the approach taken in this book, "Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales" edited by Prudence Gibson, Sigi Jöttkandt, Marie Sierra and Anna Westbrook - its a wunderkammer of full of layering, textures, junctures and truth telling, celebrating and critiquing enigmatic plants histories
March 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Loving the approach taken in this book, "Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales" edited by Prudence Gibson, Sigi Jöttkandt, Marie Sierra and Anna Westbrook - its a wunderkammer of full of layering, textures, junctures and truth telling, celebrating and critiquing enigmatic plants histories