I Heart Nature Trail
Join us this February half term for a children's trail inspired by nature and art
Landscape Resonances
Focusing on the content of the current exhibition (Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art), curated by Rebecca Partridge and Joy Sleeman, and the transformations in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in landscape art and painting.
Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art
showcases work by fourteen artists including Jessica Warboys, Richard Long, Onya McCausland, Nancy Holt, Hannah Brown and Turner Prize 2022 nominee Ingrid Pollard
Residence (Residue, Resonance)
Coinciding with the exhibition opening (Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art), and including conversations with curators and artists
Artists Discussion: A Rose is a Rose: Digging Deeper
With artists Brendan Barry, Feral Practice, John Newling, Sophy Rickett and Marjolaine Ryley, special guest Hannah Fletcher of The Sustainable Darkroom and curators Kate Best and Tim Martin
The Sustainable Darkroom
Herbal Chemigrams: foraging to make photographic developer for chemigrams and tea infusions with The Sustainable Darkroom
From the Garden: A Beginners Guide to Eco-Printing with Marjolaine Ryley
With Marjolaine Ryley, plus Phytocentric with Feral Practice. This workshop introduces how you can make your own botanical inks, photo emulsions and use plants for contact printing to create your own eco-prints.
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose Events
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Five artists - Brendan Barry, Feral Practice, John Newling, Sophy Rickett and Marjolaine Ryley - present new works exploring art and sustainability in the face of the climate emergency and declining biodiversity
'Things That Pass a Thousand Times': Unearthing Hestercombe's Collections
For the first time ever, Hestercombe will display never-before-seen objects from its archives, showcasing an array of items spanning across five-hundred years
Changing Atmospheres: Artists' Walk and Talk
Join four of the artists showing as part of our Changing Atmospheres exhibition for a guided tour and relaxed conversation about their creative processes
Changing Atmospheres
Changing Atmospheres explores creative responses from nine unique artists on what it means to rediscover connection to natural environments and the self
SEDIMENT: Book Launch and Mariele Neudecker ‘In Conversation’ with Tim Martin
Celebrated artist Mariele Neudecker will discuss her practice, career and current exhibition at Hestercombe Gallery, SEDIMENT, with Artistic Director and artist Tim Martin.
SEDIMENT
Mapping, the Arctic, the Deep Sea and lockdown drawings in an exhibition of work by Mariele Neudecker
The Mushroom Magic Trail
Explore Rook Wood this summer, as it magically transforms into a fungal paradise filled with terrific toadstools!
The Great Hestercombe Art Heist Trail
Cassie the Cat Burglar is out causing mischief, threatening to steal the artworks dotted around Hestercombe's gardens. Complete fun activities at each artwork, learning a bit about how it was made whilst tracking Cassie's footsteps.
Landscape Portrait: Now and Then
This diverse show brings works by Andy Warhol, Derek Jarman, Claudette Johnson, Susan Derges, Leon Kossoff, Patrick Caulfield, Gilbert and George and Balraj Khanna to Somerset, and for the first time to Hestercombe.
Coplestone Warre Bampfylde: A Gentleman of Taste
To celebrate Coplestone Warre Bampfylde’s life and his importance to the history of Hestercombe and the South West, we bring together the largest survey of his original artworks and objects ever seen in one place, through the exhibition ‘A Gentleman of Taste’.
Open-Up: Outdoor Exhibition
Open-Up is a series of outdoor artworks commissioned by Hestercombe Gallery in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jackdaw Line by Richard Long
Commissioned as part of Bampfylde 300, celebrated artist Richard Long’s artwork Jackdaw Line is set in Hestercombe’s magnificent Georgian Landscape Garden.
Most Admirably Improved by Art
Most Admirably Improved by Art Charlotte Hodes, Rebecca Partridge, Kelly Richardson, Fiona Hingston with Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720-1791)
Urthworks by Ben Rivers
Renowned artist Ben Rivers presents Urthworks at Hestercombe Gallery, from 9 November 2019 to 9 February 2020
Where function ends: the Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), Hestercombe Gallery presented Where Function Ends, including new work by three artists that responds to the legacy of the man whose designs transformed the Hestercombe site.
Simon Faithfull: Elsewhen
The solo exhibition ‘Elsewhen’ brought together a series of works and interventions by internationally acclaimed artist Simon Faithfull that collectively act as a kind of orientation device for both the artist and the visitor to Hestercombe Gallery.
Materiality: provisional states
Featured artists: Sarah Bennett, Megan Calver and Philippa Lawrence
Gertrude Jekyll: An Artist’s Eye
Gertrude Jekyll: An Artist’s Eye presents original paintings and photography of her gardens.
Prospect Refuge Hazard 2
This exhibition presented a new and recent body of work by internationally acclaimed artist Helen Sear.
Cultivation: Points of Vantage
Featured artists: Anna Barriball; George Shaw; John Brown; John Newling; Mariele Neudecker; Mary Griffiths; Mary McIntyre; Mikhail Karikis.
Odyssean: Topographies
Trish Morrissey: A Certain Slant of Light
Dynamics of Drifting: Tim Knowles
This exhibition was the first solo exhibition of artist Tim Knowles’s work since 2014 and the most extensive presentation of his work at the time.
A Landscape of Objects: En plein air
An exhibition of art work created through Somerset Art Works’ Projects with InspirED schools.
Buffet d’art
Buffet d’art showcased an array of work by 45 artists all of whom contributed buffet sized pieces of work to be perused on a plinth.
Regions of Light
Shifting Ground by Stephen Smith
This exhibition by artist Stephen Smith was accompanied by works from the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art.
Clean Heart: a Landscape Retrospective
Clean Heart: A Landscape Retrospective presents work from internationally acclaimed artist Clare Woods
Terrain: Land into Art
Wish You Were Here?
Simon Bayliss: Arcadia
During a summer-long artist residency at Hestercombe, artist Simon Bayliss has responded to the gardens through painting en plein air and writing poetry
Double Take: Photography and the Garden
Double Take: Photography and the Garden brought together photographs by Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) with work by leading contemporary artists Sarah Jones, Helen Sear and Mark Edwards
A Personal Passion
This exhibition focused on the personal passions of art collector Chris Ingram, and showcased important works from the twentieth century to the present day
Second Site
Second Site presented new contemporary work by five artists who responded to Hestercombe Gallery’s reclaimed spaces through exploration of Hestercombe’s history and recent re-unification between the house and gardens
Oceans by Tania Kovats
Oceans, a solo show by Tania Kovats, is the second exhibition at Hestercombe Gallery, and presents a selection of the artist’s existing work made between 1993 and 2004
Leaping the Fence
The opening exhibition at Hestercombe Gallery presents groundbreaking artists such as Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger, Mark Quinn, Mike Nelson and Susan Philipsz among others, many of them Turner Prize winners and nominees
