Exhibitions, workshops and events - 2022 season at The Rodd
The Sidney Nolan Trust is delighted to announce a wide-ranging series of exhibitions, events and workshops in 2022.
The former home of the famous Australian artist Sir Sidney Nolan opens to visitors from 31 March with two new exhibitions and new sculpture. The Peace Of Wild Things is a major solo exhibition by painter Daniel MacCarthy, the culmination of a year spent immersed in the natural surroundings of The Rodd as Resident Artist. The work which seeks to depict as well as enact a kind of communion with the natural world becomes in the act of making a place of refuge. But it is a natural world not idealised or made nostalgic in the manner of traditional landscape painting, but rather one in which uncomfortable realities seep in; a search for belonging, a sense of loss.
In the library of Rodd Court, we present Sidney Nolan’s experiments with polaroid photography. Nolan, whose photographic archive extends to over 30,000 images of his life and work, adopted polaroid photography with the same zeal as he did with so many new materials and technologies. The exhibition reveals complex imagery through multiple exposures and still life studies.
We are also delighted to present new sculpture by artist Jim Carter. Carter, who is based near Ross-on-Wye, has created large animal works using organic materials collected during visits to The Rodd and walks in the near-by landscape. The installation titled Of Black Shires connects to a sense of deep time – the animals appear as ancestors, remains and traces from the black soil of deep, layered memory, material and identity and existing on the frontier of life and death.
Later in the year, the Trust has announced exhibitions by the artist Fiona McIntyre and a major show of aboriginal artworks from some of Australia’s best known indigenous painters. For the second year, the Trust is organising a free community weekend of arts, music and storytelling which will take place on the 2&3 July.
Antony Mottershead the Trust’s Creative Producer said: ‘Through our 2022 programme we are pleased to continue our support for artists working locally and regionally but very much with an international quality and context. We also continue to reveal Nolan’s wide-ranging and experimental arts practice through presentation of his photography and Celtic imagery.’
Visitors can enjoy a selection of Nolan’s works from the Trust’s collection within his former home, the 17th-century manor house Rodd Court and are able to explore the gardens and historic farm buildings. A pop-up café will serve tea, coffee and cake.
The Rodd will reopen on Friday 31 March and thereafter 11.00 – 16.00 Thursday – Saturday and Bank Holiday Mondays.