Encounters - 12 to 13 June

Striking contemporary Art in a traditional Manor House Garden. 

Imagine a lovingly cultivated traditional garden in a 500 year old Manor House in June, now add bold and provocative sculptures made by international contemporary artists … and welcome to the exciting art event “Encounters” organized by the art consultancy “Notfamousyet” at Wheatley Manor, a village close to Oxford! The show will be staged for only one night and one day, from the 12 to the 13^th of June, coinciding with the garden’s opening under the National Open Gardens scheme.

 “Encounters” shows how exciting international contemporary art can deliver a stimulating contrast to a traditional very English setting. Many of the exhibited art works were specially created this event, others were carefully selected to correspond to special areas of the garden. Amidst the garden the visitor will find stunning large playful sculptures, delicate ceramic objects, sound installations. It will also be an encounter with surprising materials: textiles in the shape of fruits, clay that is left unfired and therefore prone to decline, an army of wooden wedges, and colourful laces (or should we say tree bondages).

Each work corresponds to the special place in the garden and thereby impacts on and changes the place and the experience of the visitor.

The artists are from Oxford, the wider UK, Europe and Asia. Some are just at the beginning of their artistic career, others can already look back to past successes, but they all have something in common:  they are all exceptional, original and unique.