Hidcote garden is hosting a major sculpture exhibition for the first time, this September 2025.
More than 200 works of art, by nearly 50 artists, will be on display throughout the garden and inside the manor house from Friday 1 September to Sunday 2 November 2025.
The eclectic exhibition, near Broadway, encompasses a variety of styles and materials from marble, granite and ceramics to aluminium, gold and glass.
Themes span the environment, sustainability and human nature with sculptures inspired by the natural world and spectrum of human emotions.
Featured artists include local and internationally acclaimed sculptors such as Ruth Moilliet, who draws inspiration from the plant kingdom.
She said: ‘In my work, I reflect a childhood dream to be able to shrink in size, like Alice in Wonderland, to enable me to enter a plant’s elaborate structure and explore its floral architecture.
'The enlarged scale that I use indicates this desire to be at one with the object of my study, to be engulfed in a flower.'
Blacksmith Jenny Pickford's nature-inspired sculptures of ironwork and blown glass will be dotted around to encourage people to look into the light.
And Marie Boyle, a sculptor working in bronze and bronze resin, is showing pieces inspired by a love of dance, acrobatics and athletics.
Contemporary, fluid forms inspired by nature, wildlife and the human form will be brought to life by figurative sculptor Clare Bigger.
While Shaun Gagg, will showcase his welding skills with sculptures made from recycled everyday objects such as spent coins, nails, washers, nuts and bolts, as well as keys.
Neil Wilkin, who has his work displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, draws inspiration from the natural world to create gleaming glass sculptures.
The exhibition is curated by David Waghorne and Kate McGovern from Sculpture Events.
David said: ‘We are excited to work with Hidcote and to accept the challenge of complementing both the Arts & Crafts style garden rooms and the long avenues and vistas, with works that will suit all gardens and budgets.’
Hidcote has been in the care of the National Trust since 1948.
Visitor operations and experience manager, Rose Futers, said: ‘We’re thrilled to bring something completely new to Hidcote and can’t wait for visitors to experience the garden from a different perspective.
'These stunning works of art complement the iconic borders and vistas Hidcote is so well known for, while at the same time standing out against them, each one inspiring the viewer in its own unique way.’
All the works are available for sale after the exhibition.
