Make Hauser & Wirth Winter Exhibitions 2024

2 November 2024 – 5 January 2025
​Opening Reception: Saturday 2 November 2024, 12 – 3 pm

Ken Eastman, 'Places in between,' 2024Annie Turner, 'Jetty – Wall Piece,' 2022David Gates and Helen Carnac, 'Lean-to,' 2024

The Shape of Here
​Featuring Helen Carnac, Ken Eastman, David Gates and Annie Turner

‘The Shape of Here’ features four UK based artist-makers exploring new and evolving notions of place through distinct material techniques. Across various perspectives and disciplines—from clay to metal and wood—their experimental investigations result in personal responses to space and landscape. In dialogue with one another, the works presented reflect upon a nature that is constantly changing to evoke a re-evaluation of our relationship to the environment.

Gathering source material and visual imagery while walking the West Somerset countryside, Helen Carnac focuses on the micro detail of surface patination, such as rust, corrosion and lichen. David Gates’ work has an affinity with agricultural and industrial architecture and infrastructure, focusing on the form and structure of silos, barns, pylons and sheds.

Working with the medium of ceramics, Ken Eastman explores shape and structure, as well as ​ tone and color. His works are not inspired by a physical, tangible place but his desire to make things he has never seen before, taking viewers to an imagined place.

Inspired by the River Deben, the work of Suffolk-based ceramic sculptor Annie Turner draws upon the place where her family have lived and worked. Her hand-built nets, ladders and boxes create composite descriptions of the river’s architecture and man’s intervention over time.

Max Bainbridge, 'Corpus' (detail), 2024Abigail Booth, 'Tender,' 2024

Prophetic Land
​Featuring Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth

‘Prophetic Land’ is a poetic response to the shifting nature of the complex landscape and environment that artist-makers Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth encountered in Braemar, Scotland, during their month-long residency with Make Hauser & Wirth last year. Immersed in the geological formations of the Cairngorms, they were struck by an increased ability to read the land and look beyond the mask of the picturesque and instead toward the environmental collapse of its ecosystems. Their works in ‘Prophetic Land’ are a reflection of the paradoxical role humans have had in tipping those ecological balances and the importance of looking to new ways of turning the tide of environmental collapse.

The exhibition’s title is a direct reference to the recorded prophecies of the Brahan Seer, a highlander in the 1600s who supposedly had second sight. Many of his prophecies are believed to have come to pass or have been partially fulfilled, often interpreted as predicting the environmental changes and human impacts that have occurred over the last 500 years. His forecasts, including the highland clearances and the industrial revolution, among other events up to our current day, can be cited to his unique intuition for humanity and the natural world. In this exhibition, both artist-makers play on this ability to foresee, reading the land through the behaviour of water, trees, earth, stone and the interconnected web of living beings to create works that convey the threats nature is facing.

About Make Hauser & Wirth
​Make Hauser & Wirth is a dedicated space for contemporary making and the crafted object, committed to showcasing some of the world’s best emerging and established artist-makers. Make is a natural extension of the wider Hauser & Wirth gallery ethos, embracing art, craft, gardens, food and architecture. Since launching in 2018 in Somerset, UK, Make has presented work by over eighty artist-makers and provided valuable insights into material-led processes and the rich narratives of their practices. Works exhibited by Make embrace material truth, provenance, sustainability and the value of emotional engagement with the handmade. In addition to a varied exhibition program, Make has hosted practical workshops, discussions and studio visits to expand learning and engagement with makers and global craft organisations.

Press Contacts:
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Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset
​Stockwell House, 13 High Street
​Bruton, Somerset BA10 0AB

Make opening hours
​Thursday – Sunday
​11 am – 5 pm

^{Copyright and Courtesy Credits:
​All images courtesy Hauser & Wirth.}

^{Ken Eastman, Places in between, 2024, Hand-built stoneware, 55 x 33 x 33 cm / 21.7 x 13 x 13 in. Photo: Ken Eastman}

^{Annie Turner, Jetty – Wall Piece, 2022, Stoneware, Dimensions available upon request. Photo: Michael Harvey}

^{David Gates and Helen Carnac, Lean-to, 2024, Douglas fir, steel, copper, stainless steel mesh, copper mesh, vitreous enamel, steel wire, 76 x 40 x 45 cm / 30 x 15.5 x 18 in. Photo: Dave Watts}

^{Max Bainbridge, Corpus (detail), 2024, Cypress wood and pewter, Dimensions available upon request. Photo credit: Forest + Found
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​Abigail Booth, Tender, 2024, Cinnamon dye, oak tannin dye, hide glue and thread on quilted cotton calico, mixed cottons and gesso panel surround, 105 x 145 x 5 cm / 41.3 x 57.1 x 2 in. Photo credit: Forest + Found}