ARC Salon
ARC Salon interprets the long history of the ‘Drawing Room’ within the country house as a physical space for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. Through visiting exhibitions, operas and supper clubs we renew this relationship between an ARC and her immediate communities.
Twice per year the art in an ARC changes and new ideas are hung from emerging and established artists. Each show is curated for our guests enjoyment and open for public view periodically through the length of the exhibition.
ARC Salon is curated by Anna Woodward; please contact for further details and sales information. While supporting fantastic artists, we hope the Salon can continue a long history of ideas, passion and joy within the ARC’s.
ARC Padstow presents Daytime Dreaming
ARC Painswick presents Contemporary Textiles
Arc Painswick is pleased to present Contemporary Textiles an exhibition that celebrates textiles in contemporary fine art but also looks back to Painswick’s history of the wool trade. Contemporary Textiles strives to celebrate different ways of making in the genre of textiles through the practices of Molly Kent, Emily Moore, Selby Hurst Inglefield, Eva Dixon, Seugwon Jung and Cecilia Charlton. Each artist has a unique approach to textiles that goes beyond the traditional conventions and what we expect to see. Including tapestries that are unsymmetrical l and feel as if they are continunal growing, to digital printed fabric and paintings that incorporate weaving, industrial and contemporary references.
Arc Padstow is pleased to present Daytime Dreaming, an exhibition that brings together four contemporary artists whose paintings transport the viewer to a dreamlike state in the realm of utopia. The exhibition includes the works of Suzanne Clements, Alfie Rouy, Bethany Hadfield and Harriet Gillett. Each artist uses their unique painting language to pull the viewer into a utopian/dreamlike scape. From Harriet Gillett’s cloud-like forms that whisper across the canvas which often reference English pub culture of live music and events. To Alfie Rouy’s creatures that sit between the myths and humans that grow from the dark surface. The exhibition includes works of all sizes that are curated throughout the downstairs of Arc Padstow, creating unique moments where the artist's practices and worlds interact and respond to one another.
ARC Salon
To learn more about the artists and the works exhibited with ARC Salon please see the full exhibition catalogue or contact ARC curator Anna Woodward at salon@arc.club.