The Times explores Norfolk’s distinctive concentration of historic houses, major collections and contemporary art programmes, travelling between Houghton Hall, Wolterton and Holkham as part of a wider cultural portrait of the county.
At Wolterton, Lisa Johnson describes the estate as a “majestic and magical place” entering a new chapter, and highlights its Art & Culture Programme with exhibitions by Phyllida Barlow and Daisy Parris. Simon Oldfield describes the artists as “agents of interruption”, their work “disrupting the architecture, rather than decorating it”.
The feature considers how Barlow’s precarious sculptures and Parris’s fiercely poetic response to the house and landscape create new encounters within Wolterton’s formal Georgian interiors. In the stripped-back Portrait Gallery, where historic paintings have been replaced with Barlow’s works on paper, Johnson observes: “The message is clear: Wolterton is creating space for something new.”
Read the full feature in The Times.