By Vicky Clarke and Kathy Hinde

Rose Garden Broadcast amplifies and transmits the hidden elemental sounds below and above the surface of the Rose Garden and the surrounding environment of Mesnes Park Wigan. It is a new collaboration by artists Vicky Clarke and Kathy Hinde for Light Night Wigan 2024, commissioned by Things That Go On Things co-created with young people from Wigan. 

Rose Garden Broadcast invites audiences to wear wireless headphones and tune in to three different ‘earth to sky’ frequency bands broadcast from electronic, illuminated  radio sculptures housed in Victorian glass cloches. Though dormant in winter, Rose Garden Broadcast will ‘bring back the blooms’ as digital twins. The cloches will house LED screens displaying pixel art roses, digital doppelgangers of the rose species as created by local young people from Wigan.