Wander_Land

Wander_Land – An exhibition of sculpture by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens and Gallery | 1 st July – 5 th August 2023

1st July: Artist Talks
5th August: Closing Event

Exhibition:
Inspired by a pilgrimage route that passes through Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Wander_Land explores our relationship between landscape and wandering.

Exhibitors:
Artists are members of the Royal Society of Sculptors, based in London with over 700 members worldwide – including Somerset Art Works members. The group exhibiting here came together during the pandemic, via Zoom, and is based largely in the South West UK.

Description:
Wander_Land explores our relationship between landscape and wandering.  The exhibition is a next step, something of a sequel to the 2022 Chichester Cathedral exhibition, Together We Rise, in which Royal Society of Sculptors members reflected on their experience of, and response to, COVID lockdowns.

Wandering, in a conscious sense, suggests links with asceticism, joy, protest, well-being, environmental
awareness and harmony.

In addition, and probably most closely associated with the location of Wander_Land, is the act of pilgrimage; St Michael’s Way, one of the Camino routes which leads to Santiago de Compostella in Northwest Spain, passes through Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens.

The responses by the artists to the theme of this exhibition are varied and intriguing. There is humour, ambiguity, beauty, environmental critique, and playfulness. Wander_Land features work in a wide range of media and sizes, placed outside, and in three gallery spaces, on floor, wall and ceiling.

Find out more here.

Published on June 6, 2023 // Hannah Earl