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Summer Exhibition at Moncrieff Bray Gallery
May 2, 2024 @ 10:00 am - June 15, 2024 @ 5:00 pm UTC+0
3 MAY – 15 JUNE 2024
Friday May 3 to Saturday May 11, Daily 10 am – 5 pm
Thereafter Wednesday to Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm
SUMMER OPENING PARTY SAT 4 MAY 3.30 – 6.30
30 artists and sculptors, selected from Land’s End to Ullapool
Artists and sculptors drawn from all corners of the British Isles exhibit in a stunning Sussex Barn and landscaped gardens. The work is selected with a commitment to quality, integrity and originality from established and emerging artists alike. This is a wonderful opportunity to see a range of outstanding contemporary British sculpture in the heart of the South Downs National Park. There are small-scale intimate works for interiors as well as large pieces for the garden. Established 20 years ago, the Summer Exhibition has become a highlight in the West Sussex art calendar.
Dominating the landscape are large scale abstract pieces in bronze by Lucy Lutyens together with Benji Lowsley-Williams’s majestic pieces carved from his native Purbeck Marble. Adam Binder’s delicate bronze animals and birds grace the interior space and Miranda Michels returns with her superbly observed animals in welded steel. New sculptors include emerging abstract artists, Mark Bowman and Archie Browning and Tobias Ford with his stunning flying birds. The exhibition also showcases some of the country’s leading stone carvers including Paul Vanstone, Mel Fraser and Jonathan Loxley.
We are thrilled to be including a selection of paintings by Deborah Gourlay from her time as artist-in-residence at Glyndebourne Opera. Another highlight is a sweeping two metre landscape by John Hitchens painted from the top of nearby Duncton Hill in 1972. New exhibitors include Catriona Millar with her naive, evocative figurative portraits, Gabriel Langlands elegaic vistas and Laura Cramer’s gestural abstract landscapes. While returning gallery favourites include Oona Campbell, Lucy Powell, Sam Rudd and Sarah Bowman.
This is an exhibition which celebrates many of the finest aspects of contemporary British art, which combined with its spectacular rural setting, only five minutes from the antique and artistic hub of Petworth, make it a unique destination. A gallery of West End quality in the heart of rural Sussex
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