Sun 14 Dec
|Golden Lion
Rhododendrons, Empire, China & Me: Book Launch & Conversation
Time & Location
14 Dec 2025, 14:00 – 16:00
Golden Lion, Fielden Square, Todmorden OL14 6LZ, UK
About the Event
‘With Love. From an Invader. – Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me’
Join us for the homecoming book launch for ‘With Love. From an Invader. – Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me’, an art-ecology-belonging book made by the Todmorden-based artist Yan Wang Preston. The book was published in July 2025 by The Eriskay Connection (NL) in partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (UK).
The launch will be delivered as a conversation between Yan Wang Preston (artist), Kate Kinoshita (poet) and Cosima Towneley, all three are local contributors for the book. The conversation will be followed by a special screening of the ‘With Love. From an Invader.’ film, poetry reading by Kate and book signing.
On 17 March 2020, Yan set off to photograph a love-heart-shaped Rhododendron ponticum bush at Shedden Clough, Burnley, Lancashire (between Maidens Cross car park on Long CauseWay and Hurstwood Reservoir.) The plan was to photograph it…