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Kensington and Chelsea Art Week

(KCAW) Art Trail, west London

A nine-zone art trail around west London,

from Holland Park, to Sloane Square, to

Earls Court, to Chelsea Physic Garden,

features sculptures, installations and

exhibits. Upcycling is the theme: Lise Bou-

issiere’s Roller Coaster, an installation at

Brompton Cemetery, is inspired by

London’s cityscape and made from used

straws scavenged from the city’s bars, clubs

and cafés. From Jun 18, kcaw.co.uk/whats-on

Superbloom, Tower of London

In 2014 the Tower of London was filled

with nearly a million ceramic poppies to

mark the centenary of the outbreak of the

First World War. Now, for the Queen’s

Platinum Jubilee, 20 million seeds have

been sown in the moat to fill it with real

flowers throughout the summer. Along-

side Superbloom, Spencer Jenkins’s Nest is

an immersive willow sculpture that invites

visitors to step inside a living picture

frame, while Mehrdad Tafreshi’s tangle of

titanium, copper and steel sculptures

depicts the pollinators that the fortress’s

new living artwork hopes to attract. Jun 1-

Sep 18, hrp.org.uk

South East

Henley Festival, Oxfordshire

Henley Festival celebrates its 40th

anniversary with an art-fuelled bonanza

on the banks of the River Thames.

Works include giant illuminated

jellyfish, imposing steel

towers from Johannes

von Stumm and ki-

netic contraptions

from Andrew

Chisholm, as

well as Kum-

quat Lab’s

labyrinth of

tunnels and

Tom Waugh’s

tongue-in-

cheek crushed

carrier bags.

Galleries ex-

hibiting include

Panter and Hall,

Rebecca Hossack

and Zuleika. Jul 6-10,

henley-festival.co.uk/art/

Albion Barn and Fields,

Oxfordshire

Opened last year, the 50-acre Albion

Fields in rural Oxfordshire has been partly

rewilded — roe deer, badgers, woodpeck-

ers, hares and owls now live among

works by David Adjaye, Erwin Wurm,

John Pawson, James Turrell, Rachel

Whiteread and Ai Weiwei. Among the

new pieces on show this year are sculp-

tures and installations by Jenny Holzer,

Jason Rhoades and Shilpa Gupta and a

new outdoor pavilion by the architectural

company Nebbia Works. From Jun 2,

albionbarn.com

Elephant Family, Waddesdon,

Aylesbury

The National Trust manor is home to a

lifesized family of Indian elephant sculp-

tures — a tusker, a matriarch and a female

calf — grazing in the Pleasure Grounds of

the estate. Modelled on elephants living

in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu,

the sculptures were created by Shubhra

Nayar by wrapping steel skeletons in

the stalks of Lantana camara, decorative

plants brought to India by British tea

planters that became a toxic, invasive

menace to local flora. nationaltrust.org.uk/

waddesdon

The Sculpture Park, Surrey

This two-mile trail through ten acres

of woodland, water gardens and the

rolling Surrey Hills features 650 sculp-

tures from more than 300 artists, all of

which are for sale. With works ranging

from Zimbabwean hand-carved Shona

sculptures of mermaids, whales, birds and

elephants to Andrew Sinclair’s gleeful

Pre-Hysteric, a 9ft bronze nude riding a

dinosaur, there are surprises at every turn.

thesculpturepark.com

South West

Sculpture by the Lakes, Dorchester

Climb into a cocoon sculpture that

swings beside a stream, admire Jurassic-

sized butterflies or follow the lead

of dancing figurines and jumbo-sized

heads deep in meditation. This sculpture

trail curated by Simon Gudgeon and

his wife, Monique, showcases work by

Gudgeon and other artists across 26 acres

of Dorset countryside. Dorset Arts Festival,

Jun 29-Jul 3, sculpturebythelakes.co.uk

Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust,

Gloucestershire

A charred monolith etched

with a poem on racial

inequality from

Khady Gueye and

Zakiya McKenzie

is one of the

newest addi-

tions to

this four-mile

free art trail

through an-

cient wood-

land, a royal

hunting forest

in medieval

times. The trail

features 16 works

by artists including

David Nash, Kevin

Atherton and Cornelia

Parker as well as more recent

pieces by Natasha Rosling, Pomo-

na Zipser and Henry Castle, many

addressing the area’s history of quarrying

and mining. forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk

Henry Moore: Sharing Form,

Hauser & Wirth, Somerset

A six-decade survey charts the sculptor

Henry Moore’s fascination with mega-

lithic art — he was first enchanted by

Stonehenge after watching it glint in the

moonlight as a young man in 1921 —

through to the monumental bronze sculp-

tures that made his name. The new open-

air exhibition features awe-inspiring

abstract works including The Arch (1963-

69), Large Interior Form (1953-54) and

Locking Piece (1962-63) in addition to

further works exhibited across the gal-

lery’s indoor spaces. To Sep 4, hauser-

wirth.com

Tremenheere, Cornwall

This charming Cornish sculpture park and

sub-tropical garden in a sheltered valley

features site-specific work by more than

20 contemporary artists. There is a mino-

taur from Tim Shaw, a rock fissure filled

with glass from Ken Gill, elliptical domed

chambers from James Turrell and a mov-

ing exhibit from Matthew Bennington fea-

turing cabinets of images carried by the

artist’s grandmother when she left her

family home to walk across Poland and

Germany. There are also works by David

Nash, Kishio Suga and Richard Long.

tremenheere.co.uk

artist, illustrator and award-winning
children’s author Oliver Jeffers in collabo-
ration with the astrophysicist Stephen
Smartt. Their scale recreation of the
planets in outer space — and the exact
distances between them — allows you to
jog to Jupiter, cycle to Venus and even
hop on a bus to the Sun without ever leav-
ing Earth. Belfast (Jun 11-Jul 10), Midsum-
mer Common to Waterbeach near Cam-
bridge (Jul 30-Aug 28), Ulster Transport
Museum and North Down Coastal Path
(Sep 17-Oct 16), unboxed2022.uk/our-place-
in-space

get ahead The Flybrary

by Christina Sporrong

from Radical Horizons:

The Art of Burning Man

at Chatsworth House.

Left, from top: Butterfly

by Simon Gudgeon;

Tour de Moon festival;

Large Interior Form

(1953-54) by Henry

Moore at Hauser &

Wirth. Right: Skhimza by

Ken Gill, Tremenheere

shows to catch this summer

DANNY LAWSON/PA; PHOTO: KEN ADLARD, COURTESY HAUSER & WIRTH, WITH PERMISSION OF THE HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION; KEATON CHAU; SIMON GUDGEON; JONTY WILDE