A Contemporary Landscape Exhibition at South Stoke
12 to 16 June 2025.
In May 2024 Zimmer Stewart Gallery presented Art and Agriculture – South Stoke Idyll, in conjunction with Ryan Haydon, farmer at South Stoke, near Arundel.
The 2024 exhibition included paintings by Matt and Nick Bodimeade with an installation by Emma Hurst and a video FEED by Adam Stead. The paintings, installation and video were directly related to the farm at South Stoke, and a response to our collective connection to the land and farming.
There was a talk/panel discussion during the exhibition facilitated by Adam Stead, with the three other artists and Ryan Haydon. A film of this talk and text is available here.
For Art and Agriculture in 2025, we are building on the success of the 2024 exhibition and have developed the theme as well as broadened the number of artists taking part.
Food production is the fundamental purpose of agriculture, a point raised by Ryan Haydon in his opening statement on the 2024 panel discussion.
He went on to say that the work of farming today has evolved to further activities beyond solely food production. Farmers are now encouraged to create a ‘green and pleasant land' for the increasing number of leisure seekers and to support biodiversity by creating field buffers of wild flowers and new hedgerows.
So, for us Productive Land is the brief given to the 23 artists invited to submit works for this unique exhibition. This can be interpreted by each artist in their own way; for example, productive in this sense could include woodland, encouraging leisure, etc.
All the artists taking part have a connection to Sussex.
The exhibition in 2025 will take place from 12 to 16 June 2025 at South Stoke Barn, South Stoke, near Arundel, BN18 9PF:
The exhibition will be pen everyday from 11am-6pm
The Private View is on Thursday 12 June, 6-8pm
A Talk on Art and Agriculture: Productive Land led by Ryan Haydon with James Stewart and Nick Bodimeade is on Friday13 June in support of The Sussex Snowdrop Trust. Further details and ticket information will be published in due course.
The 23 participating artists are:
Emily Ball
Emily Ball's paintings are images of her experiences of daily life. Fleeting sensations are made tangible and celebrated using rich and varied marks and the tactility of the materials that she uses.
The work is a combination of observation, sensation and invention to create a language that creates a palpable equivalent to my sensations.
Emily Ball's current work is about her drive to work; the road, shadows, light, road signs, pilons, wires, the trees, spaces between and movement through the space.
Whilst being driven she make drawings. They are urgent, layered, surprising and strive to create movement and a fresh engagement with the landscape.
The resultant paintings become improvisations using this theme. Colours are heightened and motifs repeated. These then converse with each other in surprising combinations to create the tension, mood and movement of my experience.
Matt Bodimeade
Nick Bodemade
Pippa Blake
Tom Farthing
John Harmer
Emma Hurst
Frances Knight
Andrew Milne
Karin Moorhouse
Paul Newland
Lucinda Oestreicher
Piers Ottey
Deborah Petch
Andrew Roberts
Tiffany Robinson
Melanie Rose
Tania Rutland
Kate Sherman
Catherine Somerville
Adam Stead
Phil Tyler
Andy Waite
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