This exhibition surveyed works by British artists that took their inspiration from their relationship to the garden. Works in the show included painting, photography, sculpture, text works and sound pieces. The show also had a historical thread exhibiting works by such artists as JMW Turner, John Constable and Lucian Freud, and culminated in a room in the Tate dedicated to the works of contemporary artists.

As an extension of his inquiries into the interiority of suburban living, David Rayson began to readdress his distanced relationship to the suburban garden and seized the opportunity to test new developments in his research methodology, focusing in particular on drawing. After initially working through ideas in a reductive way to break away from all the distractions of painting, he spent months in the studio experimenting with the possibilities of drawing in colour in an effort to encapsulate the psychology of experiencing the everyday as if seen through an altered state of mind. Using the model of 'drinking to cope with the routine dullness of suburbia', and drawing upon the work of other artists including George Grosz, Otto Dix, Philip Guston, Rene Magritte's 'Vache' period, the Insomnia Drawings of Louise Bourgeois and works from the Printzhorn Collection, Rayson produced scores of preliminary drawings until both the realisation and subject matter of the work had become synergised.

To accompany the exhibition there was a large full-colour catalogue with essays by Nicholas Alfrey (University of Nottingham), Stephen Daniels (Arts and Humanities Research Council), Martin Postle (Tate Britain) and Mary Horlock (Tate Britain). As a result of the exhibition, Rayson was invited to give lectures at Wimbledon College of Art, University of Wolverhampton and Canterbury School of Art, and was commissioned to produce a series of prints with Arthester, working with the esteemed printmaker Kip Gresham at the Print Studios, Cambridge.