Two years after becoming the youngest ever winner of the International Prize for Sculpture for his presentation at the 1956 Venice Biennale, Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003) acquired Lypiatt Park, a neo-Gothic manor house in the Cotswolds. Over the next five decades he filled the house and the 100 hectares of parkland around it with spiky bronze and steel sculptures, most of which are humanoid, insectoid or animal-like in form. The house and grounds are not open to the public, so most people encounter Chadwick’s work in museum and gallery spaces. This exhibition at Houghton Hall in Norfolk is a reminder that Chadwick’s creatures are best viewed in the open air, where, given enough space, they resemble citizens of an alternative, abstracted realm (2 May–4 October). Visitors can get to know some 30 works, including several regal-looking ‘couples’, both inside the neo-Palladian stately home and throughout the parklands.
Find out more from Houghton Hall’s website.
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