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New pergola in the gardens

Artwork and nature

Emily Kriste Wilcox

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Septarian Nodule at Fresh Air Sculpture 2019

Fresh Fashion at Fresh Air 2017

Esme’s Garden

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ABOUT FRESH AIR SCULPTURE

Set up by art collectors, Lucy and David Abel Smith, the first Fresh Air Sculpture was held in the Quenington Old Rectory gardens in 1992. Acclaim for the show’s originality and innovative mixture of traditional, modern and cutting-edge outdoor sculpture has grown year by year and Fresh Air Sculpture is now an established and much anticipated fixture in the art events calendar. Fresh Air Sculpture became a charitable trust, under Quenington Sculpture Trust, in 1997.

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Apply to Exhibit at Fresh Air Sculpture 2024 16 Ju

Apply to Exhibit at Fresh Air Sculpture 2024
16 June - 7 July 2024

We are inviting applications from artists for our 2024 sculpture exhibition.

Fresh Air Sculpture is an outdoor selling exhibition that has been operating for the last 30 years showing renowned national and international artists alongside emerging new talent.

We are looking for ‘fresh’ new work with artistic intent in addition to technical proficiency, that is original, handmade or partly handmade, has been recently created and has not been previously exhibited within a 30-mile radius.

All work should be of a suitable scale for a large outdoor garden setting and be robust enough to withstand the vagaries of the British weather.

Fresh Air Sculpture is open to all new ideas and will consider site-specific or ephemeral proposals where the artist has raised their own funding. This is a challenging remit but challenges can often push artwork in new and unexpected directions.

We welcome submissions from international sculptors but it will be the artist’s responsibility to arrange and cover shipping costs and any customs, taxes and duties due.

The deadline for submissions is 1st December 2023.

All the details via the link in our bio.

#artistopencall #callforsculptors #sculptureshow #sculpturegarden #quenington #cotswoldsculptureshow #queningtonsculpturegarden #sculpturegarden #contemporarysculpture

We are hiring! We are looking for a forward thin

We are hiring!

We are looking for a forward thinking and enthusiastic content creator to join our small and dynamic team at Fresh Air Sculpture’s biennial show.

You will support Fresh Air Sculpture by handling all social media platforms, creating and curating content, documenting work and discovering potentially interesting stories to increase our online visibility.

The full job description and all details can be found on our website - via the link in our bio.

Deadline for applications Friday 12 December.

#cotswoldsjobs #gloucestershirejobs #freshairsculpture #quenington #wearehiring #jobsingloucestershire #cirencesterjobs

Night time garden views. #nightgarden #quenington

Night time garden views.

#nightgarden #quenington #englishgarden #sculpturegarden #cotswoldgarden

The Armed Forces Memorial Sculpture by Ian Rank-Br

The Armed Forces Memorial Sculpture by Ian Rank-Broadley at the National Memorial Arboretum in
Staffordshire.

Our friend Matthew Burt @matthewburtstudio is laun

Our friend Matthew Burt @matthewburtstudio is launching
‘Making from the Collection’
a selection of favourite pieces, now available made-to-order.

Matthew and his team will be presenting some of these timeless classics over a long weekend at the beginning of December and invite you to join them in celebration.

The Studio where Matthew’s designs start life, the Workshop where his makers bring them to fruition and the nearby Showroom will all be open.

At all venues, you will be able to see these exquisite pieces, along with smaller items (perfect for Christmas) on display and available to buy or commission.

The company is proud to produce work of such quality in Britain, using British timbers.

Matthew’s work is available exclusively from his Wiltshire base.

OPENING WEEKEND IN DECEMBER
Thursday 1st 11am - 5pm
Friday 2nd 11am - 5pm
Saturday 3rd 11am - 6pm
Sunday 4th 11am – 4pm

After the weekend, many of the pieces can then be seen at the Showroom, along with Christmas gifts, until Friday 23rd December

Monday to Friday 11am – 5pm
Saturday 11am – 4.30pm

All the details via @matthewburtstudio

@jackson.fawkes Last few days to see ‘CGS at 25:

@jackson.fawkes Last few days to see ‘CGS at 25: Past, Present, the Future’ @glassmuseumuk .
FINAL DAY 30 October!

Sally’s ‘Engaging Significance VIll' was chosen to represent 2007 in this historic exhibition.
Seen here with pieces by @alison.kinnaird.glass.harp too.
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From humble beginnings 25 years ago, the @contemporary_glass_society
(CGS) has evolved into a thriving, proactive society supporting a
membership of over 1,000 British and international glass artists. ‘CGS at 25: Past, Present, the Future’ celebrate CGS’s quarter century with glass artwork glass artwork covering a range of
techniques selected from the past 25 years from 25 of the United Kingdom's
greatest glass artists.
The exhibition demonstrates the
development of contemporary glass processes and concepts and provides an insight into the future with work from emerging contemporary glass artists.
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#celebrate #25 #pastpresentfuture
#glassartists #contemporaryglass
#sallyfawkes #sallyfawkesglass
#significance #glasssculpture
#mirrored #cut #opticalglass
#tellthestory #diverse
#museumexhibition #historicexhibition
#glassexhibition #glassartwork
#makingprocess #glassmuseum
#studioglass #selectedworks #2007 #lastfewdays

Our amazing talented friends @electricdaisyflowerf

Our amazing talented friends @electricdaisyflowerfarm

@electricdaisyflowerfarm Pumpkin carving season is upon us, you don’t just need to make a monster, we love botanical themed gourds.

Last year @telegraph had an article about us making these beauties. We will be demonstrating this weekend in the shop on Swain’s Lane and we have the tools for sale too.

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This morning in the garden. Seriously. #nofilter

This morning in the garden.

Seriously.

#nofilter #quenington #freshairsculpture #sculpturegarden #autumnmorning #cotswoldsgarden #cotswoldgarden #autumnsunrise

A visit to Maggi Hambling’s amazing Scallop at A

A visit to Maggi Hambling’s amazing Scallop at Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

#maggihambling #maggihamblingart #scallopsculpture #aldeburgh #aldeburghbeach #suffolk #contemporarysculpture #sculpturelovers #sculptureart #outsidesculpture #aldeburghbeach

October, who would have thought? Water sculpture

October, who would have thought?

Water sculpture by @giles_rayner_watersculptor

#sculpturefountain #fountain #englishgarden #indiansummer #cotswoldsgarden #watersculpture #freshairsculpture #quenington #queningtonsculpturegarden #sculpturegarden #sculpturelove

@jackson.fawkes A quiet reunion with SILENT SECRET

@jackson.fawkes A quiet reunion with SILENT SECRET, on a sunny October visit to Quenington Old Rectory this morning. ‘Silent Secret’ has been in the Abel Smith’s art collection for 21 years now, acquired from @freshairsculpture in 2001.
Swipe left to see the stunning Crab Apple tree.
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#silentsecret #artcollection #sculptureinthegarden #artoutdoors #glasssculpture #cotswoldgarden #oldrectory #reunion #sunnymorning #octobermorning #21years #crabappletree #sallyfawkes #sallyfawkesglass #contemporaryartist

This is just beyond beautiful and extremely moving

This is just beyond beautiful and extremely moving.

@esdevlin Come Home Again: A Choral Sculpture at the Tate Modern Garden commissioned by Cartier and made with guidance from the London Wildlife Trust. Open now 10am till 10pm until 1st October with choral evensong at 7pm every evening except Monday: free and open to all: link in bio

A dome originally meant a home. The work invites us to see, hear, and feel our home, our city as an interconnected web of species and cultures, to learn and remember the names and sing those under threat into continued existence. The work echoes the invitation invoked by the 92-year-old climate activist Joanna Macy: “Now it can dawn on us: we are the world knowing itself. As we relinquish our isolation, we come home again...we come home to our mutual belonging.”

We are losing languages as fast as we are losing species: the diversity of the ethnosphere is endangered in parallel with that of the biosphere. The languages sung within the work by The London Bulgarian Choir, London African Gospel Choir, South African Cultural Gospel Choir, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, Southwark Cathedral Merbecke Choir and The Choir with No Name include Xhosa, Zulu, Latin, and a range of Bulgarian and African dialects.

Link in bio for details of the choral performances including the sources of the texts by John Seed, Joanna Macy, David Abram, Simon Barnes and more that I am reading each evening in the voiceovers between the choirs and bird solos.

The sound design and composition in which choirs sing the latin names of all of the 243 species over 10 days is by Polyphonia - animated video projections are by Luke Halls Studio. The work has been produced by Jo Mackay / Larmaclive, fabricated by StageOne and Diagon, projection by CT, sound by Autograph, lead associate designer from my team is Matteo Mastrandrea, with studio associate designers Will Brown, Ellie Wintour, Ben Lucraft and Gonzalo Padilla. Photography by Daniel Devlin, Hugo Glendenning, Jodi Rabinowitz, Will Brown, and Ptolemy Mann. With special thanks to Chiara Stephenson, Machiko Weston, Emily Roberts and Livvie Walters.

Steve Messam has some of his inspiring inflatable

Steve Messam has some of his inspiring inflatable works in The Hague, The Netherlands until 10 October as part of ‘Blow Up Art Den Haag’.

Check out the walk through tunnel.

@rougeit ‘Tunnel’

A temporary installation through the historic Gevangenpoort in The Hague, Netherlands. Until the 10th October

#blowupartdenhaag

A quiet spot in our gardens from Fresh Air Sculptu

Sarah exhibited with us at Fresh Air Sculpture 202

Sarah exhibited with us at Fresh Air Sculpture 2022.

This is another piece of her work that provokes thought and change.

@buy_the_kilo · SEPTEMBER EXHIBITION·
Sarah Strachan @sarahstrachan
'An Invitation to Drift' 2021

"This work consists of 33 hexagonal ceramic units or vessels which tessellate to form a proposal for a restoration initiative for the Essex native oyster. Prompted by fieldwork in the River Blackwater estuary for a workshop at the British Science Festival, 'An invitation to drift' imagines a habitat where a balance can be reached between native oysters and invasive slipper limpets"

This piece was originally designed to be a floor based installation. In our gallery space we can view the work head on, creating a visual reference to a hive 🐝 in keeping with our #beethechange 2022 initiative

This piece asks us to consider how we design the space around us with care to accommodate different ways to exist on this earth

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A lovely review of Fresh Air Sculpture 2022 by Emm

A lovely review of Fresh Air Sculpture 2022 by Emma @armadillocentral.

@armadillocentral RELEASE...
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... kinetic sculpture by @davidwatkinsonsculpture featured at Quenington Old Rectory during the @freshairsculpture exhibition in June. Read my show review on the Armadillo Central blog - link in bio or copy/paste: https://armadillocentral.com/?p=3605
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#release #kineticsculpture #kinetic #sculpture #escultura #floating #windswept #breezy #blowinginthewind #deepbreaths #austinfarwell #davidwatkinsonsculpture #freshairsculpture #seedheads #quenington #queningtonoldrectory #sculptureenpleinair #sculpturegarden #sculptureshow #gardendesign #gardensculpture #contemporarysculpture #armadillocentral #exhibitionreview #artsblog #organicdesign #organicshapes

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