Place

9 Jan-1 Jun 2025

Overview

Developed around four new works by Edmund de Waal, this exhibition includes paintings by Ian Stephenson and John Hubbard, and sculpture by Hubert Dalwood.

Edmund de Waal’s new Kilkenny stone benches, titled this place, reflect the heritage of our islands. Quarried Irish stone studded with ancient fossils and silver, these works are grounded in the earth beneath our feet. Up above, Ian Stephenson’s cosmic and ephemeral paintings signal the rhythms of the sky, and nod to the British romantics, like Turner and Constable, with whom he aligned. John Hubbard’s black and white landscapes, bold and dramatic, reflect on the natural rhythms of landscape; rock formations; cliffs and valleys. Their sweeping, spontaneous energy is met with the calculated patterns of Hubert Dalwood, who’s organic forms and industrial language depict the British landscape in shining, space-age aluminium.

Surrounded by the rolling Wiltshire countryside, the light and open architecture of the award-winning gallery space, designed by Stephen Marshall, invites quiet contemplation of balance, landscape and our heritage.

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