Artparks Sculpture Park
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The Artparks Sculpture Park sculpture trail
is located in Saint Martin's, Guernsey, Channel Islands
, in the grounds of the historic Sausmarez Manor
.
It shows up to 200 mostly contemporary sculptures every year by approximately 70-80 artists from the United Kingdom
and around the world. It was opened by Charles Saumarez Smith
CBE, who at the time was the director of the National Portrait Gallery in London. The selection of sculpture is set in a sub tropical garden and changes every year with a grand opening, usually around the third week in May. Amenities include free parking, a bus stop and a cafe.
Most of the sculpture is for sale and there are some sculptures that are semi permanent.
There are occasional guided tours of the sculptures at certain times of the year.
There is a small charge for admission and free loan guides to the sculpture park available.
Sculpture trail
A sculpture trail—sculpture walk - also known as "a culture walk" - is a walkway through open-air galleries of outdoor sculptures along a defined route with sequenced viewings encountered from planned preview and principal sight lines.-Settings:...
is located in Saint Martin's, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...
, in the grounds of the historic Sausmarez Manor
Sausmarez Manor
Sausmarez Manor is a historic house in Saint Martin's, Guernsey.- The Original Manor House :The first mention of the de Sausmarez family in Guernsey is at the consecration of the Vale church in 1115 followed by a letter dated 1254 in which Prince Edward, Lord of the Isles, afterwards King Edward I,...
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It shows up to 200 mostly contemporary sculptures every year by approximately 70-80 artists from the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and around the world. It was opened by Charles Saumarez Smith
Charles Saumarez Smith
Charles Robert Saumarez Smith CBE is a British art historian. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1994 to 2002. From 2002 to 2007 he was director of the National Gallery and is currently Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts...
CBE, who at the time was the director of the National Portrait Gallery in London. The selection of sculpture is set in a sub tropical garden and changes every year with a grand opening, usually around the third week in May. Amenities include free parking, a bus stop and a cafe.
Founding and funding
The Artparks Sculpture Park was founded in 1998 by Peter de Sausmarez. Self funding.Exhibits
Occasionally solo exhibitions are shown.Most of the sculpture is for sale and there are some sculptures that are semi permanent.
There are occasional guided tours of the sculptures at certain times of the year.
Artists
Some of the sculptural artists who have exhibited to date are:| Marie Ackers | Carol Acworth | Neale Andrew | |
| Anon of the East | Anon of the Orient | Halliday Avray-Wilson | Felicity Aylieff |
| Lida Baas | Patrick Barker | Ben Barrell | David Begbie |
| Dawn Benson | Vega Bermejo Castelnau | Alan Biggs | timothy blackwood |
| Robert Bowers | Monika Brors | Thomas Brown | Gill Brown |
| Dick Budden | Heather Burnley | James Butler James Butler (artist) James Walter Butler MBE RA is a British sculptor.Butler was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and studied art at St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art. For 10 years he was a professional stone carver. He taught sculpture and drawing at the City and Guilds of London Art School... |
Perryn Butler |
| Ronald Cameron | Alan Card | David Cemmick | Daniel Clahane |
| Peter M Clarke | Michael Cooper | Giorgie Cpajak | Sean Crampton |
| Judy Ann Cropper | Anne Curry | Nicholas B. Daddazio | Anton Dala |
| Stephanie Davies-Arai | Virginia Day | Martin Debenham | Helen Denerley Helen Denerley Helen Denerley is a Scottish sculptor. Much of her work is made from reused scrap and is inspired by the animal world. Notable public sculpture includes Dreaming Spires on Leith Walk, Edinburgh; Dragons at the Eniwa Garden Project, Hokkaido, Japan; various sculptures at the Horizon Enterprise... |
| Kate Denton | Shirley Diamond | Aragorn Dick-Read | Sophie Dickens |
| Martin Duffy | Sukey Erland | Abbey Evans | Angela Farquharson |
| Richard Fenton | Graham Findlay | Tim Fortune | Christine Fox |
| Donald Foxley | Hilary Frew | Paul Gervis | Olwen Gillmore |
| Ginger Gilmour Ginger Gilmour Ginger Gilmour, Ginger Gilmour, Ginger Gilmour, (born Virginia Hasenbein in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on 19 January 1949, is an artist and former model, and the first wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.-Personal life :... |
Nicola Godden | Badri Goguadze | Dr. Nicholas Gold |
| David Goode | Amy Goodman | Ben Greenwood | Paula Groves |
| Simon Gudgeon | Helen Gyngell | Elisabeth Hadley | Veda Hallowes |
| Mark Yale Harris | John Hawkwood | Martin Hayward-Harris | Michie Herbert |
| Alan Herriot | Brendan Hesmondhalgh | Silas Higgon | Michael Hipkins |
| Barbara Hodgkins | Beatrice Hoffman | Andrew Horsfall | Deirdre Hubbard |
| John Huggins | Lynda Hukins | Mark Humphrey | Angela Hunter |
| Christa Hunter | secondnature Ian Turnock & Susan Laughton | Graham Ibbeson Graham Ibbeson Graham Ibbeson is an artist and sculptor resident of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. He has created bronze sculptures in towns and cities across Britain including Leeds, Cardiff, Dover, Barnsley, Doncaster, Northampton, Chesterfield, Middlesbrough, Perth, Otley and Rugby... |
Alan Jack |
| Philip Jackson Philip Jackson (sculptor) Philip Henry Christopher Jackson CVO is an award-winning Scottish sculptor, noted for his modern style and emphasis on form. Acting as Royal Sculptor to Queen Elizabeth II, his sculptures appear in numerous UK cities, as well as Argentina and Switzerland.His twice life-size bronze statue of... |
Abu Jafar ARBS | K. Jane Jones | Jerzy Jotka Kedziora |
| Tom Joynson | Simon Keeley | Lucy Kinsella | Phillip Kotokwa |
| Bozena Krol Legowska | Alistair Lambert | Charlotte Lauer | William Lazard |
| Jason Le Noury | Christine Lee | Nick Lloyd | Lorne Mckean and Edwin Russell |
| Margaret Lovell | Peter Lyell Robinson | Michael Lyons | Andrew MacCallum |
| Rob J Maingay | Tom Maley | Vivien Mallock Vivien Mallock Vivien Mallock FRBS is an English sculptor who works mainly in bronze. Her career started at the Museum of Army Flying in Hampshire where she sculpted several celebrated WWII fighter pilots, including John Cunningham, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain... |
Chris Manley |
| Jane McAdam Freud Jane McAdam Freud Jane McAdam Freud, daughter of Lucian Freud and Katherine Margaret McAdam, was born on 24 February 1958 in London. McAdam Freud is an internationally acclaimed artist working with prints and drawing, sculpture and installation, and digital media... |
Jesse Merton-Richards | Ev Meynell | Robert Mileham |
| Sheila Mitchell | Nicolas Moreton Nicolas Moreton Nicolas Moreton is a British artist born in 1961 in Watford, Hertfordshire. Predominantly a stone carver, two of his sculptures are in permanent public locations in Milton Keynes.... |
Dave Morris | Gail Morris |
| Moudoir | Peter Moulton | Terry New | Peter Newsome |
| Peter Nicholas | Piers Nicholson | Gudrun Nielsen | Doru Nuta |
| Adam Oliver | John Cyril O`Connor | Marilyn Panto | Gill Parker |
| Gary Pickles | Guy Portelli | Kenneth Potts | Janis Ridley |
| Sue Riley | Paul Riley | Patrícia Riveras | Mike Roles |
| Timothy Shutter | Helen Sinclair | Paul Smith | Michael Speller |
| Antonia Spowers | Geoffrey Stinton | Elizabeth Studdert | Jilly Sutton |
| Barry Sutton | Jan Sweeney | Michael Talbot | Brian Taylor |
| Richard Thornton | Peter Thursby | Todor Todorov Todor Todorov Todor Todorov is a Bulgarian sculptor , born in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 26, 1951. He studied his masters at National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria and graduated in 1977. Over the past 30 years he has primarily produced large scale works in the area of public sculpture and kinetic... |
Sarah Tombs |
| Tania Ivanova Tzanova | Jennifer Urmenyi | Marcelle Van Bemmel | Henk Van Putten |
| Roman Velihurskiy | Patricia Volk | Emma Walker | Mick Watson |
| Alex Wheeler | Diana Whelan | Paul Wilson | Tolleck Winner Tolleck Winner Tolleck Winner is a UK-based sculptor. Born 30 July 1959 in the former Soviet Union, he has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1980.He works in a variety of media and is an Associate member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.... |
| Faith Winter | Olive Wootton | Jonathan Wylder | Peter Wylly |
| Althea Wynne | Jenny Wynne Jones | Rafael Zabala |
Hours of operation
Artparks Sculpture Garden is open daily, from 10am to 5pm.There is a small charge for admission and free loan guides to the sculpture park available.