Keith Wilson: Cattle Market

Keith Wilson’s Cattle Market was a series of temporary sculptures created for the park at Compton Verney. Inspired by agricultural cattle pens, auction rings and handling gates, the metal sculptures also hinted at urban structures such as playground equipment and stadium seating. By positioning them within an 18th-century classical landscape, the artist provoked questions about Englishness, structure and function, public space, and the decline of the rural economy.

Cattle Market was supported by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Art for Architecture Award and the Royal College of Art.

Compton Verney’s 2003 programme was generously supported by the Peter Moores Foundation.