Sculpture exhibition in Avebury Manor Garden

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Over 80 sculptures are set in the beautiful garden rooms, with an artist in attendance some days, the sculpture exhibition returns to Avebury Manor.
Gardens and sculptures have always enjoyed a harmonious relationship and the garden at Avebury Manor is no exception to this.

For over five years, the National Trust team at Avebury have been hosting an autumn sculpture exhibition in the garden. With its many different rooms, vistas and hideaways, the garden is perfectly suited to showcasing artworks - whether that's a large kinetic sculpture of moving branches and leaves, or a small bronze rabbit scurrying across the lawn.

National Trust exhibition organiser, Hazel Barry-Scott says 'The sculpture exhibition is one of my favourite events of the year. It's so wonderful to see the garden full of artworks as it really encourages visitors to look at their surroundings in new and different ways.'

Many of the art works will be available to buy and, for the first time since these exhibitions have been running, there will be a weekly 'artist in the garden' event. Each week, one of the 21 exhibiting artists will be in residence at Avebury to demonstrate their work and chat to visitors.

One such artist, Val Adamson, will be exhibiting her triptychs of bronze heads. Val says 'I love the process of exploring people's faces through clay and I often use a study as inspiration for further pieces. I used the African head studies to create a second tryptic of more stylised heads, both of which can be seen at Avebury this year'.

Another artist, Kay Singla, who has been exhibiting at Avebury since the first show in 2016, says 'I can't wait to be in the beautiful, peaceful gardens at Avebury again. Blessed am I to be showing my work here!'