Last year we visited the annual exhibition of sculpture organised by Sotheby’s in the grounds at Chatsworth. We enjoyed it so decided to visit again this year. So last Saturday we drove over to Chatsworth and spent a pleasant, sunny, autumn afternoon wandering around the grounds.
This year’s exhibition was the tenth and to celebrate Sotheby’s invited Tim Marlow, Artistic Director of the Royal Academy and well known as a TV pundit, to be guest curator.
For this year’s ‘Beyond Limits,’ Marlow has organized an impressive array of British sculpture from 1950 to the present. His choices reflect the seismic shifts in British art, a journey in 30 sculptures from such totemic figures as Anthony Caro to contemporary artists like Sarah Lucas.
- Big Gauge II by Anthony Gormley
- The Family of Man: Ancestor I by Barbara Hepworth
- Pendulum by Brian Kneale
- Hermaphrodite by Thomas Houseago
- Large Standing armed Figure by Bernard Matthews
- Pair of Walking Figure: Jubiee by Lynn Chadwick
- Pair of Walking Figure: Jubiee by Lynn Chadwick
- Untitled (Head) by Edward Paolozzi
- Manipulator by Reg Butler
- Dreadnought; Problems of History. The Search for the Hidden Stone by Stephen Cox
- Guerilla Gardener by Simon Periton
- Manipulation by Tony Cragg
- Three Piece Reclining Figure, Draped by Henry Moore
- Battersea II by Geoffrey Clarke
- Ghengis Khan by Philip King
- Reardless of History by Bill Woodrow
- The Birth of Consistensy by Angus Fairhurst
- Seaform (Atlantis) by Barbara Hepworth
- Seaform (Atlantis) by Barbara Hepworth
- Dancing Figures (Two Danding Figures) by Lynn Chadwick
- Sextet by William Turnbull
- Kevin by Sarah Lucas
- Florian by Sarah Lucas
- Monitor by Kenneth Armitage
- Temple by Sandy Brown
- Cornwall Slater Line by Richard Long
- Three Obliques (Walk in) by Barbara Hepworth
- Blessed by Anya Gallacio
- Sunshine by Anthony Caro
- Reel by Philip King
- The Dappled ight of the Sun I, II, III by Conrad Shawcross
There weren’t so many works by unfamiliar, new talents on show, which was a little disappointing. It’s always good to make new discoveres. I did like the Hepworth pieces (always do) which were nicely sited although they were familiar works – the one from the Family of Man especially, they have a full set at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I thought he cheated, too, by including some of Chatsworth’s own pieces that are permanantly of display – the Richard Long Cornish Slate path and the Barry Flanagan Hare. But, overall, we enjoyed it and had good weather too.
Fabulous shot of the house through the sculpture! I like Barbara Hepworth too – www went to her sculpture garden in St Ives last year.
Thanks Anabel. Didn’t get focus quite right but I thought it would make an interesting picture.