Frieze writes about our Arts and Cultures programme at Wolterton Hall, Norfolk here.
"These days, the UK’s stately homes are places to see contemporary art, often in the great outdoors. This year sees the opening of two important new venues: Goodwood Art Foundation in Sussex and Wolterton Hall in Norfolk, who join the likes of Derbyshire’s Chatsworth House and Compton Verney in Warwickshire. Over the next few months, these houses and estates offer a remarkable range of international artists in some of the country’s most romantic and evocative settings."
"Norfolk’s Wolterton Hall was founded by the influential Walpole family (Robert was Britain’s first prime minister; Horace built Strawberry Hill and invented the English gothic novel). Following several fires and restorations, this important estate has reopened to visitors and has an accompanying arts and culture programme. The inaugural exhibition, ‘Sea State’, features new work by Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson and is co-curated by Simon Oldfield and Gemma Rolls-Bentley. The site-specific presentation responds to the house’s proximity to the North Norfolk coast, and the endless mutation of the sea, its historial role in empire and its metaphorical resonances for the queer body."