The Financial Times feature highlights the contrast between Wolterton’s Palladian architecture and the raw, irreverent character of the two exhibitions — Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor and Daisy Parris: Fist Full of Dreams. Grady describes Barlow’s “punky, irreverent spirit”, with more than 70 works juxtaposed against the decorative interiors of the Hall, while Daisy Parris “challenges Wolterton’s splendour” with a visceral body of work responding to the estate and its weathered outbuildings.
Together, the exhibitions place two very different contemporary practices in direct dialogue with Wolterton’s architecture, history and landscape.
Read the full feature in the Financial Times.
July 10, 2026