Visiting this weekend? The Textile Fair is taking place from 6 – 8 November

All visitors, including members, must pre-book their tickets.

If you’d like to visit the fair, book your tickets here, there’s an option to purchase for just the Fair, or a Fairs and Gallery ticket to get access to all Compton Verney has to offer.

If you don’t wish to visit the fair, you can purchase a general admission ticket (reduced to £0 for members when you log in), but please note the ground floor galleries are accessible to Fair ticket holders only.

Ariel Schlesinger:

Ways To Say Goodbye

22 October 2019 – 15 December 2019

“The work of Ariel Schlesinger is remarkable. It makes us notice. It stops our steps, silences our speech, seizes our eyes”. Robert Ginsberg

About the
exhibition

The newly commissioned sculpture in the park by Ariel Schlesinger reached skywards, challenging our perception of the ordinary and highlighting the relationship between humans and nature. Cast in aluminium, with shattered mirrors nestled in its upper branches, Schlesinger’s tree invited visitors to explore the unique and remarkable qualities in the everyday.

Just as our original landscape architect, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, constructed a seemingly natural landscape, so Schlesinger’s sculpture took on a form that is at once both recognisable, and yet so much more.

This grounds commission was accompanied by a small solo exhibition of new work by Ariel Schlesinger inside the house.