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Walking the landscape: residency exhibition

As 2025 National Trust Avebury artist in residence, Sarah Hobley has spent the year exploring the Avebury landscape through a series of short walks. The experience has been recorded on the pots in this special exhibition.

  • Booking not needed
  • Free event

A sculptor who lives in Wiltshire, Sarah Hobley works in different media to explore our historical and ongoing integration with the environment. As 2025 National Trust Avebury artist in residence, she has been exploring the local landscape through short walks and recording her spontaneous response through pots which are painted and sculpted with the sensory impressions of each walk. Revealed is a clear seasonal progression from the sparse browns and high-water levels of winter to the tumultuous birdsong and bright colours of spring and summer. The cycle is completed with the richness of autumn. She described the opportunity to explore and encapsulate the wealth of this landscape as a joy and a privilege. Visit the seventeenth century threshing barn at Avebury to see Sarah's unique pots displayed in an exhibition, and uncover the story of walking through the landscape that each one unveils. Free entry to the exhibition, 10am-5pm. All artworks are for sale, please enquire at the visitor reception kiosk in the barn for more information.

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Meeting point

Follow signs for the barn visitor reception in the old farmyard.

What to bring and wear

Please wear clothes suitable for the weather forecast as it is approx. 0.3 miles from the carpark to the barn. The barn is unheated.

Accessibility

There are cobblestones in the Old Farmyard at the entrance to the barn.

Other

All exhibits are for sale. Please enquire at the Visitor Reception.

Contact info

National Trust Avebury

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