Sculpture in the Valley 2020

Sculpture in the Valley 2020 © Lisa Gates

© Bridget Palmer

One of the region’s flagship sculpture events is moving to a new location this year, curated by award winning Suffolk based curator David Baldry.

Waveney & Blyth Arts’ seventh outdoor sculpture event – Sculpture in the Valley 2020 – will be hosted at Potton Hall in Westleton, along the Suffolk Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty from July 18th to August 2nd.

Annually attracting thousands of visitors to the region, the event moves location every three years around the Waveney and Blyth river valleys to reach new audiences and explore different landscapes.

Genevieve Rudd, the new Chair of Waveney & Blyth Arts (W&BA), said: ‘2020 marks W&BA’s tenth birthday, so we wanted to develop this year’s sculpture event to celebrate our legacy of connecting art with landscape and place over the past decade. Potton Hall is situated within Dunwich woodland, in the Blyth river valley area of our patch. The new site for 2020 offers an opportunity for artists to explore a distinct environment – from the domestic planted gardens to the wildflower meadow set against the rugged woodland.’

For the event in 2020, the ‘Reflections on Landscape’ theme will see artists responding to ideas about our relationships with the landscape, interactions between wild and cultivated areas, and living in the context of climate crisis. As well as the external sculptural responses, Easterly Artists will be holding a visual arts exhibition in the Potton Hall recording studio barn space. www.waveneyandblytharts.com

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