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‘Landscape Portrait: Now and Then’ at Hestercombe Gallery

Jan 6th, 2021

From 17th May - 25th July 2021, works by Andy Warhol, Derek Jarman, Claudette Johnson, and Gilbert and George can be seen alongside new commissions and local historic pieces

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Image: Susan Derges, The Observer and the Observed, 1992, Gelatin silver print © the artist

Open-Up: Hestercombe Gallery unveils series of lockdown-inspired outdoor artworks

Aug 17th, 2020

Hestercombe Gallery is proud to unveil a brand new series of outdoor artworks commissioned in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Graft Ladder Jo Lathwood Open Up Hestercombe photo by Tim Martin

Most Admirably Improved by Art

Jan 20th, 2020

Most Admirably Improved by Art, an exhibition of contemporary works, is set alongside original works by Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720-1791), Hestercombe’s former owner.

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Week 2017 detail Rebecca Partridge Most Admirably Improved by Art Hestercombe Gallery IMG 7676 web

Hestercombe Paintings Selected for Major National Art Exhibition

Nov 26th, 2019

Hestercombe paintings by artist Maria Rose were selected from 1,600 entries to appear in the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) Annual Exhibition 2019.

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Artist Maria Rose Painting At Hestercombe

Where function ends: Responses to the architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens

Jun 20th, 2019

Alex Hartley, Liz Nicol and Oliver Sutherland…Where function ends: Responses to the architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton, 14 July - 27 October 2019. To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), Hestercombe Gallery presents new work by three artists that responds to the legacy of the man whose designs transformed the Hestercombe site.

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