Shatwell Farm Open Day – 18 June 2022
On Saturday 18 June 2022, Shatwell Farm held its annual Open Day, inviting visitors to explore the farm, which includes completed buildings by Hugh Strange, Stephen Taylor, David Grandorge, and Skene Catling de la Pena architects, a conversion by Clancy Moore Architects, and a variety of interventions, including the columns by Álvaro Siza (commissioned 2014, for the Royal Academy, London, reinstalled at Shatwell 2017), and a wooden obelisk by Peter Smithson.
Across the farm, Kendra Matchett curated a programme of exhibitions and events, titled ‘Expositions’. In the grain silo, artist Nicola Turner and artist, poet and dancer Claire Whistler installed ‘Lapses’, a project that combined Turner’s sculptural forms with live movement and music from a specially commissioned octobass, played by Jim Blackburn. Nicola Turner’s free-standing sculpture and a selection of drawings were also presented in the upper floor of Clancy Moore’s Atcost barn conversion.
In addition, recent sculpture and drawings by Matt Page were on show in the Haybarn. In the Atcost barn, Sandra Porter showed drawings and prints made during and after her visits to Shatwell Farm amid the pandemic. And a new sculpture by Connor Vickery-Gearty was unveiled onsite, which complements his previously installed work between the Atcost barn and tractor shed.
In response to the exhibitions, the pin-up in the Drawing Matter archive presented drawings from the collection that sit at the intersection of art and architecture. The pin-up included work by: Gordon Matta Clark, Aldo Rossi, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, and Derek Boshier, alongside many others.
