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Saturday, 15 March 2025

Artlyst - An Uncommon Thread: Hauser & Wirth Somerset

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is on ‘An Uncommon Thread’, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, with a mention also of the work of Ernst Blensdorf in Bruton:

"‘An Uncommon Thread’ is part of an ongoing Hauser & Wirth Somerset initiative that champions emerging and mid-career artists. The exhibition features 10 contemporary artists driven by curiosity and inventive approaches to materiality and process. Each artist shown demonstrates a commitment to the integral role materials and techniques play in their creative process, employing unexpected painting surfaces, adapting formal craft traditions and repurposing discarded products into compelling works. Use is made of a wide range of different materials including sanyan fabric, latex, satin, beading, black oyster anchor bands, an aeroplane engine fan cover, and Hebridean fleece, among others.

As a result, the multidisciplinary exhibition highlights the transformative power of unconventional mediums in evoking personal and collective memories while also demonstrating how reuse and reclamation in the creation of environmentally charged works can shine a spotlight on the damage done to the environment by human greed. The 10 artists, therefore, invite viewers to engage with the rich stories woven into each work through individual investigations of identity, tradition, nature, fantasy and the environment."

For more on Ernst Blensdorf see here and here..

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Saturday, 23 December 2023

Winter Garden - Hyde Hall

 















Hyde Hall's Winter Garden, which opened in winter 2018, and has been designed to show that gardens can look spectacular even through the coldest months of the year. The Winter Garden celebrates seasonal change, from its autumn display of foliage and berries to the colourful stems and skeletal seedheads of the colder months.

Set against this winter landscape, a series of sculptures by David Watkinson explore the gradual decay of a leaf. Look out also for Hyde Hall’s living sculptures.

Striking plant combinations include the glossy leaves of Viburnum odoratissimum underplanted with the contrasting yellow foliage of Acorus gramineus ‘Ogon’.

Cornus (dogwood) offers wonderful variety and winter colour, with stems ranging in hue from white through yellow, orange and red. The Winter Garden features around 100 different types of Cornus , which is being monitored as part of a RHS Trial to establish which varieties perform reliably.

Colour and texture are also provided by the herbaceous plants with seedheads and stems that remain though winter adding a variety of colour and texture - like the perennial grass, Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Cassian's Choice' pictured above. The golden haze from Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Goldtau’, meanwhile, seems to float among the seedheads of Liatris spicata ‘Floristan Violett’, Amsonia tabernaemontana and the silvery foliage of Anaphalis triplinervis ‘Somerset’.

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