[Joanna Savage]

Congratulations to MGS member James Basson for his win at Chelsea. His design is right up there with Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, and, less botanical, Rachel Whiteread. His design is an excellent study of an ecological zone and is presented in a thoughtful questioning manner. May he have many more successes.

[Alisdair]

Quite agree, Joanna. Far from being pretty-pretty, this is a bold departure from the usual design. It's based on a Gozo limestone quarry, colonised with Maltese native plants just as in many derelict Mediterranean quarries. It was very brave of James to push ahead with such an uncompromising design. This is the picture we put on the MGS facebook page - as you can imagine, there were quite a lot of comments (not all of them complimentary).