Looking to keep busy over the summer holidays? Whether there is rain or sunshine, there will be fun and interesting activities to keep all the family entertained over this summer. Visit our summer exhibitions Sat 30 June – Sun 30 September Enter the joyful and colourful Marvellous Mechanical Museum and Rodney Peppè’s World...
IN-LIGHT II Sat 28 October – Sun 29 October, 6.30pm – 8.30pm Experience an enchanting and contemportary ‘son et lumière’ by light artist Luxmuarlis in Compton Verney’s stunning grounds. This year’s light and sound display draws on poetry and nature in a series of beautiful light projections. This will be a popular event and...
The Clearing is a collaborative artwork by artists Alex Hartley and Tom James. Together they are building a geodesic dome by the lake, an ‘eye-catcher’ for the 21st Century, where visitors can explore at first hand a future afflicted by climate change. Help us to bring this vision to life at Compton...
The Clearing is a vision of the future, coming to the grounds of Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park from March to December 2017. British artists Alex Hartley and Tom James are creating a living, breathing encampment in the shadow of a stately home on the shores of an idyllic lake, where people can...
Christmas is coming! Santa’s little helpers (The CV team) have been busy getting Compton Verney ready for the festive season. We decided to take a break from decorating and freeze for the Mannequin Challenge.
On Friday 4 & 11 November, as part of our autumn interactive event IN-LIGHT, visitors created Light Drawings at our photography stations. The colours and patterns in these images look spectacular. Here’s all the images, we hope visitors will be able to find their creations.
This summer’s Britain in the Fifties: Design and Aspiration exhibition touches on the memories of those who lived through it and those who admire its aesthetic. As much as our exhibition has items loaned from other collections, Compton Verney has the local community to thank too. Without them, the 1950s takeover would not be...
