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All New Gallery, Bookshop
2 months ago
This Saturday is a momentus day for Hestercombe as the House is finally re-united and opened up to the public for the first time in over 100 years.
Several spaces have been reclaimed and are being used as a Gallery. The first exhibition 'Leaping the Fence' contains important artworks from the last 25 years including pieces by Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger and Marc Quinn, plus many more. The exhibition will challenge the visitors perspecive on art, as many of the works evoke images or structures from the outdoors, or the garden world, that have been brought into the Gallery spaces.
Alongside the Gallery there will be a second hand bookshop for which we can thank many of our volunteers, members and friends for help setting up and donating books.
Opening times for the Gallery, House & Bookshop will be alongside normal garden opening, 10am - 5pm. Admission is included in garden entry and so is FREE to members.
We were on TV last night - here's a pic
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Shopping
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**Come and visit our new Gallery Shop in Hestercombe House, as well as our Gift Shop and Plant Centre on the Marquee Lawn**: - An overview of the new Gallery Shop**Gallery Shop**: Visit Hestercombe's new Gallery Shop for beautiful local handmade gifts. With a mix of high quality pieces, local artists showcase their work - a diverse selection of materials...
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New Art Exhibition in Lutyens Gallery
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**Janet Jordan presents CRAIG ASKEW 9th to 29th July Seascapes. Gorgeous new exhibition in our Lutyens Gallery. Open daily 10 to 5.30p.m. Situated in part of our Stables Restaurant which occasionally is reserved for private functions. So if you are visiting from afar, do contact us in the event that the Gallery has limited access. Otherwise, come along and...
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Hestercombe House Opening Information Throughout
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**UPDATE, 7th January 2021: *Please note: in line with the national lockdown, Hestercombe House and Gallery is temporarily closed. Read our full coronavirus statement for opening information.**: To visit Hestercombe House and Gallery (when reopen), you will need to book a gardens admission ticket, which also gives you entry to _Open-Up_, a new series of...
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Hestercombe House Scrubs Up for The Public!
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeThe house opens on Saturday!! The whole team have been busy helping get it up to standard. The Gallery spaces have been reclaimed - this means that the rooms used have not been restored, as this would take much more time and money than is available at the moment, a lovely little 2nd hand bookshop has been created, and a stunning area for a tea room has been...
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Gallery News: Trish Morrissey
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeMiss Warre (cascade)_, C-type print, 2017 © Trish Morrissey This autumn (opens 18 Nov) the Hestercombe Gallery is privileged to welcome acclaimed photographer Trish Morrissey to its exciting contemporary arts programme. Having exhibited extensively in solo and group shows in the UK and internationally, her work is in major private and public collections....
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Happy 2nd Birthday to Hestercombe Gallery
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeWe’re celebrating Hestercombe Gallery’s second birthday this year and although it’s a relative youngster in the world of art, we couldn’t be prouder of what it’s already achieved. When the future of the house was being discussed in 2013, it was decided that with its history of landscape and artistic garden design, we needed to strengthen the bond...
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Hestercombe Gallery Update
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**Creative Director, Tim Martin, updates on what has been happening at Hestercombe Gallery.**: - Credit: Jem Southam, Winter Walks Three Ducks.In February this year, as part of the ‘Expanding Landscapes: Painting after Land Art’ exhibition programme, we held an event entitled ‘Landscape Resonances’, where co-curator Joy Sleeman explored the ‘after...
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A Blast From The Past
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeI thought you might appreciate this photo of Hestercombe House taken in 1953, just as the Somerset Fire Brigade (est. 1948) was about to move in and make it their headquarters. Somerset County Council leased Hestercombe House for £500 per year in September and would eventually (1977) purchase the House and adjoining 11 acres of land, including the Formal...
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Simon Faithfull Exhibition at Hestercombe Gallery
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeImage: 'Quenanville as Antipode' (detail), slideshow + 11 digital prints, 2014_ **Simon Faithfull exhibition '**_Elsewhen_**' at Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton**: 9 March - 30 June 2019 A new exhibition by **Simon Faithfull** brings together a series of works which allow gallery visitors to orientate themselves in relation to places across the planet. Created...
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2nd Exhibition at The Hestercombe Gallery
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeThis is the last week you can see 'Leaping the Fence' featuring many world famous artists including Mark Wallinger and Tracey Emin. But fear not! On 14th October we re-open with the Tania Kovats show 'Oceans', a wonderful collection of drawing, sculpture and multi-media. Here's a great review from it's last outing in Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery: The...
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Bring Us Your Books!
4 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeToo many books taking up room in your house?! Our second hand bookshop has been very popular but to make sure it stays in tip top condition we need to keep a constant rotation of books. If you've got any books you've read and don't have space for bring them along! We'd appreciate all types of books but especially fiction, cookery, gardening and...
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Hestercombe to Host New Exhibition From Celebrated
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**SEDIMENT brings together three decades of work by celebrated German artist Mariele Neudecker. Landscape, the deep sea, the Arctic, environmental concerns and lockdown all have a presence in this major solo exhibition.**: - Image: Mariele Neudecker, We Saw It Coming All Along [1 & 2] 2019, (detail), mixed media on archive print on board. © the Artist-...
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Behind The Scenes at The New Dogs of Hestercombe
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeHave you spotted our exciting new Dogs of Hestercombe exhibition in the Long Gallery, which celebrates Hestercombe's patrons with paws? We love to welcome visitors and their dogs for walks in the garden and a spot of canine ice cream in the Stables Cafe. Earlier this year, volunteer and photographer Daniel McCarthy captured these charming photos of visitors...
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New Gallery Exhibition Opens This Weekend
4 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time'Double Take: Photography and the Garden' brings together rarely-seen photographs by Gertrude Jekyll and leading contemporary artists.
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‘landscape Portrait: Now and Then’ at
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**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**: - Image: Susan Derges, The Observer and the Observed, 1992, Gelatin silver print © the artist**- **New exhibition at Somerset’s Hestercombe Gallery explores historical and...
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Where Function Ends: Responses to The Architecture
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**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...
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All New Garden Tours
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeMeet Head Gardener Claire Reid and come along on a tour of Hestercombe. Taking about 1.5 hours, you will learn about the gardens, the history and how the team keep it looking fab. _Normal garden admission applies._
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Outdoor Commissions
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**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 **Oceans by Tania Kovats**: Oceans, a solo show by Tania Kovats, is the second exhibition at Hestercombe Gallery, and...
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In Conversation With... Rebecca Chesney
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**As we near the end of our current exhibition, 'Regions of Light' at the Hestercombe Galley we talked to artist Rebecca Chesney about her work and inspiration**: **Where did you begin your career as an artist and how has this developed?** I started my career where I was born and brought up - in north Lancashire, but I've moved around a bit since then to...
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From The Archives: Memories of Hestercombe
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**MEMORIES OF HESTERCOMBE: THE 1873-77 REMODELLING OF HESTERCOMBE HOUSE**: The moulded stone arch that frames the east entrance to the Gallery Shop, originally the Great Hall, probably formed part of the rear wall of the original, early medieval house at Hestercombe. By the late 17th century the increasingly substantial residence of the Warre family...