Beyond Nature: Make Hauser & Wirth in London
Press Release
Hauser & Wirth London
20 May – 28 May 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday 19 May 2022
Featuring Matthew Day Jackson and the artist-makers Akiko Hirai, Alexander deVol, David Gates, Helen Carnac, Katie Spragg, Marcin Rusak, Mark Reddy, Nic Webb, Sophie Rowley.
Make Hauser & Wirth is a destination for contemporary making and the crafted object, committed to showcasing the best emerging and established artist-makers in the UK and internationally. The gallery is a natural extension of Hauser & Wirth Somerset in the UK and the wider gallery ethos, embracing art, craft, gardens, food and architecture. In a special presentation by Make Hauser & Wirth, a collective of established artist-makers showcase, at Hauser & Wirth London, new and evolving notions of place and material investigation through an expressive response to nature and landscape. Spanning disciplines from wood to ceramic, resin and textiles, the exhibition evokes the interconnected relationship between people, the natural environment and process.
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Five Seasons at Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset
15 April – 11 June 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday 14 April, 6 – 8 pm
Featuring Craig Bamford (SASA Works), Mark Reddy, Romilly Saumarez Smith, Katharine Swailes, Annie Woodford, Annemarie O’Sullivan.
‘Five Seasons’ presents new multidisciplinary works by six artist-makers, each responding to the garden designer Piet Oudolf’s unique planting philosophy and celebration of the natural world. Distinct works ranging from landscapes in porcelain, elemental forms in wood and metal, to hand-woven tapestries and found objects, reveal a search for something sacred from the ordinary. Formed from deep associations to the cycles in nature, the works celebrate all that has been overlooked and yet to be discovered, intertwining the tangible with the imagined. These visual memories, themselves akin to the experience of walking in Oudolf Field at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, create landscapes one might dream of, where immersion in nature is total. As Oudolf comments, ‘It’s not what you see, but what you see in it’. Characterised by an intuitive spirit, traditional craft techniques are innovated in a collective response, oscillating between large-scale vistas and microscopic details. Discover a surreal, dreamlike place, a place stranger than nature.