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New Art Exhibition in Lutyens Gallery
2 months ago
**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 enjoy this new exhibition open until 29th July. It'll make you smile**:
**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 enjoy this new exhibition open until 29th July. It'll make you smile
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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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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 Gallery, Bookshop
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeThis 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...
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Restoring The Lutyens Rotunda
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeWe were delighted to learn last month that the **Somerset Gardens Trust has generously donated £1,000** towards the cost of restoring and conserving the rotunda in Hestercombe’s fantastic formal garden. Designed by Sir Edward Lutyens and built between 1904 and 1908 after he and Gertrude Jekyll were commissioned to create the formal garden at Hestercombe,...
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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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... Helen Sear
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timeHelen Sear, Forest Operations, 2018, Giclée print **As our new exhibition by international artist Helen Sear opens we speak to her about her work**: **Where did you begin your career as an artist and how has this developed?** I studied Fine Art at Reading University and later at University College London’s Slade School and didn’t really think of art...
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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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History
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**Hestercombe has a rich and diverse history; the first written record of the estate is from an Anglo-Saxon charter of 682.**: **Gardens History**: **Restoration**: **Hestercombe at War**: **Somerset Fire Brigade**: **Archives**: **Coplestone Warre Bampfylde**: **The Water Garden**: **The Terrace Seat**: The earliest remaining medieval feature of Hestercombe...
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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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Hestercombe’s Landscape Saved with £1.5million
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**A vision to completely restore Hestercombe is one step closer thanks to a £1.5 million grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.**: This remarkable donation has enabled Hestercombe to acquire land totalling 320 acres, securing the world-class, Grade 1 heritage landscape, gardens and buildings for future generations. A vision to completely restore...
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Original Limited Editions
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**Hestercombe Contemporary Art Gallery aims to present the best in contemporary arts practice ~ below you can find original limited edition items available to purchase**: **Jo Lathwood**: **_Graft Ladder_** 2020**: Archival ink on 320gsm paper, Edition of 50 £65 unframed Dimensions: 21cm x 29.5cm Ladders of different forms have regularly made an...
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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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Coplestone Warre Bampfylde
2 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time**an amateur artist whose talents were far from amateurish** - ~ Huon Mallalieu, Country Life art writer_ **Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, 1720-1791**: **2020 gained significance as we celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, former owner of Hestercombe, and designer of the impressive Landscape Garden that greets you after...
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Our First Sneaky Peek in The House
4 months ago
Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full timePhilip gave us a tour of our 'new house' today and for some of us it was our first peek at the past, and to the future of Hestercombe. As you can imagine the house is a vast project. Parts of it are amazing while other parts are very 'officey' looking through years of County Council activity. But for me the most exciting part is the views down onto the...