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 Animalia
ARC Painswick presents Open Salon
ARC Painswick presents its Open Salon exhibition that brings together 11 contemporary artists. In the summer of 2023 ARC Salon hosted an open call with a selection panel consisting of three previous ARC exhibited artists, Emily Moore (Contemporary Textiles), Lily German (Duchy) and Harriet Gillett (Daytime Dreaming). The selection panel’s aim was to bring together a group of artists working across a range of different mediums, from photography and found object sculptures to abstract paintings.
Animalia is presented by ARC Padstow, an exhibition that investigates through artistic representation the unique relationship and response between humans and animals. Animalia brings together the work of contemporary artists Naomi Boiko Stapleton, Camilla Dilshat, Ranny Macdonald, Salvo Pione, Paula Turmina and Phoebe Mash and Minna Williams in collaboration.
The exhibition demonstrates different artists interpretations and responses to animals from Naomi Boiko Stapleton’s intimate and gentle watercolour paintings on cotton, often showing a cropped image and never fully allowing the viewer to understand or into the moment of representation. To Ranny Macdonald’s painting Nothin’s goin’ right (II) depicting a pet on the London Underground creating a humorous moment through distortion of the image in the reflection of the tube window. Etchings by Phoebe Mash and Minna Williams is the first artist collaborative series ARC has exhibited. Their works create a unique insight into the way two practices can come together to depict an altered realm.
Animalia invites the visitors to reflect on their own relationship with animals whilst viewing the artist's unique representation of their own personal connection.
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.