Beyond Limits 2015

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.