Our Summer Exhibition 2024 is now CLOSED
Opened from 25 May until 21 July 2024
Talos Summer Exhibition 2024
be inspired, be moved, be challenged
Our Summer Exhibition here at Talos is a popular annual event, renowned for the quality and diversity of the artwork on display. Showcasing bronze sculptures, paintings and wall installations from internationally acclaimed artists in the unpretentious rustic beauty of our gallery buildings and the intimate seclusion of its breath-taking gardens.
Many or our carefully curated collections here to challenge and inspire in equal measure can be seen online via the artist links.
OUR SUMMER EXHIBITION 2024
Commissioned for the Platinum Jubilee, the bronze of HM Queen Elizabeth II on her favourite horse, Burmese, by sculptor Caroline Wallace, came to Talos in early May. And for those who visited last year you will recognise the outline of Judy Boyt's equine statue 'Up to the line', only this year it was golden.
This year we gave you Talos Ceramic Celebration focusing on three outstanding makers — Elaine Peto, Jo Taylor and Jennie Gilbert — each bringing their own unique interpretation to the medium.
We were enormously proud to be able to bring you five rare sculptures from highly acclaimed artist Bryn Parry CBE – these exhibited alongside a unique selection of his original cartoons straight from the artist’s studio, some of which had never been seen before.
We introduced the bold new collection of sculptures by gallery owner Richard Atkinson-Willes. Taking concepts without entity and creating forms is the theme for his Orion Series. Fellow formalist and intelligent sculptor Philip Rae-Scott exhibited his gravity defying work ahead of moving to a major London gallery.
We were also thrilled to announce a major installation by sculptor Adam Roud, who started his career working at the famous Morris Singer Foundry — his abstract collection filled the gallery and gardens with what promise to be monumental pieces.
Acclaimed painter Cindy Powell, whose work champions global conservation issues, shared some well known works as well as new pieces inspired by her beloved home country of Africa. Highlight was Cindy's collaboration on our closing event 'Humanity Reflected' — click here to see what went down.
TALOS FEATURED ARTISTS 2024
FEATURED COLLECTION
Questioning the validity of the mainstream sculptors of the 1970s, Richard rose to the challenge of progressing his work from the popular genre of crafted sculpture to the more intellectual realms of the concept object, where a sculptural idea is realised without the constraints of a formal process or recognised tradition.
His brand new work 'Orion Series' was debuted at Talos Summer Exhibition 2024.
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FEATURED ARTIST
"I’m most inspired by landscape and nature with a particular focus on woodland. I build a drawing up with several layers of ink and water, adding and taking away before using a fine brush to draw in details.
I like the immediacy of pen and ink and the intimacy of working small which draws the viewer in.”
Planning your visit
Our passion is to make art accessible to as many people as possible and to experience it in a way that suits you.
If that's a guided tour, meeting the artist, seeing the foundry of being left to enjoy at your own pace.
Enjoy the gallery and gardens at your leisure, we are here for questions or to respect your space.
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FEATURED ARTIST
""In her paintings, Sonia Steidle invents her very own plant cosmos: flowers and fruit pistils, seeds and foliage mutate into abstract forms. The essence of the plant itself emerges - symbolising the metaphysical longing for the infinite."
FEATURED ARTIST
Nettie is a botanical artist working from her home studio in the Vale of Pewsey. Since moving to Pewsey, Nettie has been involved in the theatre as a playwright, director and set designer, as an archaeologist at Blick Mead in the Stonehenge landscape and she is an experienced beekeeper. All these elements have inspired her artwork - moving with the seasonal changes in colours and light, the varied forage for the bees and pollinators and the breath-taking Wiltshire landscape.
all works are available to commission or sale
ARTIST,
PAUL ROBERTS HOLMES
Paul Roberts-Holmes (1964-2001) studied at Roehampton University and The Royal Academy Schools between 1984-1987. Roberts-Holmes' artistic practice focuses on the reclamation and reuse of found fragments that can no longer be used for their intended purpose. By using them in his sculptures, he gives these overlooked items a new value, whilst presenting them in a new context.
Roberts-Holmes is exhibited across the UK, and he had an exhibition at the New Art Centre in 1993, titled 'Wanderings'. His work is held in both public and private collections. A particularly acclaimed installation was commissioned for the Dorset County Hospital in 1999, which similarly uses found objects to create original sculptural compositions.
Left: Paul Robert Holmes' Sculpture in Talos Gallery Garden
Right: Quaba-La, 1997 Found metal
PAINTINGS AT TALOS
Travellers on Great Western Railways will be familiar with the major installations at Bristol Temple Meads and Paddington stations by painter Cindy Powell, whose work champions global conservation issues.
The originals of both of these powerful sets of paintings will be at Talos for the summer along with a selection of Cindy’s latest work championing conservation in her beloved home country of Africa.
ARTIST, CINDY POWELL
FEATURED ARTIST
Adam Roud
Since 2000 with a studio and workshop on Lord Portsmouth’s estate Adam has developed his work with large and small commissions, figure studies, portraits and the main body of abstract pieces. It is these monumental abstract pieces we are thrilled to be unveiling at Talos for our Summer Exhibition 2024.
