Jerwood Gallery

The 2010 season has opened at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire and Jerwood Sculpture has unveiled the newest addition to the collection, Peter Randall-Page’s Green Fuse, 2008.

Now over ten years old, the Sculpture Collection is a major initiative of the Jerwood Foundation and an important part of its wide-ranging support of the visual arts. From its beginning in 1999, the aim of Jerwood Sculpture has been to display large sculptures in the natural environment.

The growing collection is set out along a 2½ mile Sculpture Trail, following the Garden Walk through the formal gardens and the Woodland Walk through the park. Alongside works by artists of international reputation such as Kenneth Armitage, R.A., Michael Ayrton, Lynn Chadwick, R.A., Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A., Antony Gormley and Peter Randall-Page, the collection includes works by other important international and national sculptors and by emerging artists who have won the Jerwood Sculpture Prize.

2010 is an exciting year for Jerwood Sculpture as the collection will increase in size to just under thirty works of large scale outdoor sculpture when seven pieces join the collection from the Montgomery Sculpture Trust over the course of the summer months. Jerwood Sculpture will then become one of the UKs largest permanent sculpture collections on view to the public. The group includes works by Professor Bryan Kneale, R.A., Peter Logan and Keith Milow as well as works by Eastern European artists such as Slawomir Brzoska, creator of Breath, 2003.

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