Welcome to Fresh Air, the biennial sculpture exhibition that provides a unique opportunity to see a creative mixture of traditionally modern and cutting-edge contemporary work in a stunning outdoor setting.

Fresh Air 09 was a great success and showed outdoor sculpture by more than 100 artists who work in a variety of materials such as bronze, resin, metal, ceramics, glass, stone, wood, willow and cloth. The exhibition takes place in the garden and grounds of Quenington Old Rectory, the beautiful Cotswold home of Lucy and David Abel Smith. It aims to promote and sell the work of local, national and international artists, and to provide a forum for education in the visual arts. Young, emerging sculptors have an opportunity to exhibit alongside more established artists and bursaries are awarded to talented artists as development opportunities.

The next event will take place from Sunday June 19th until Sunday July 10th
Open 10am - 5pm every day including Sundays. Admission is £2.50p for adults over 18yrs, children 18 yrs and under free. On Sunday 26th June there will be an entry charge of £4 in aid of the National Gardens Scheme.  All artists work is for sale at prices ranging from £50 - £50,000. Catalogues will be for sale at £5.
Refreshments will be available: light lunches and teas by 7a of Fairford.
Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome.

Artists who would like to exhibit in Fresh Air 2011 are welcome to apply before 15th February 2011.
Sculptures and installations must be suitable for exhibiting outside and work will be chosen by a committee whose decision will be final. Please contact us for details.

For news on what events we are hosting in 2011 please go to News & Reviews



       
 
       

Fresh Air - The Book

A beautifully illustrated book of the 2007 exhibition with photographs by Andy Eaves.
Contains an interview with Lucy Abel Smith and art historian, Alan Wilkinson.
Price £6 + 50p postage & packing.

To purchase book please send cheque with order to address on the Contact Us page.

"As Henry Moore remarked, sculptures in landscape "possess their environment." Barbara Hepworth identified with landscape to such an extent that she could write: "I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour."

"Quenington Old Rectory, as one of my four favourite sculpture gardens, is in good company with the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St Ives, Henry Moore's garden at Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire and Madeleine Bessborough's New Art Centre, Roche Court, near Salisbury. But for me, the enchantment and unique magic of Quenington, is the river. I half expect to see Ratty and Mole appear at any moment, messing about in their boat."

From Alan Wilkinson's concluding paragraph from the interview with Lucy Abel Smith about the setting up of the Sculpture Trust. The full interview can be found in the illustrated book.