ELISABETH Frink’s sculpture Seated Man II first appeared in Salisbury in 1997 as part of a festival sculpture exhibition and was installed on Choristers’ Green.
The sculpture has now taken up residence in the front garden of Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum as one of the exhibits in a major new exhibition, Circles and Tangents: Art in the Shadow of Cranborne Chase, and looks quite at home there.
The exhibition at the museum features a collection of paintings and sculpture made by artists who, from the 1920s to the present day, have found in Cranborne Chase a landscape of inspiration, seclusion and beauty.
Artists include the Nicholson family (William, Ben, Winifred, EQ and Tim), John Craxton, Lucian Freud, Stanley Spencer, Augustus John and Elisabeth Frink. Contemporary artists include Jay Battle, Tim Harrisson and Ian Middleton.
The exhibition runs until September 29, giving plenty of time for Salisbury people to visit, but if you go during the festival (which ends on June 9) and take a festival brochure, you will only have to pay half price for a ticket.
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