Location: Sandham Memorial Chapel

An exhibition of stone carvings, paintings and bronze sculpture that explores the potential of the human figure for spatial and votive expression

In this free public exhibition the Reading-based artist Robert Fitzmaurice and London-based sculptor and architect James Dunnett present new work where the human figure dominates. Dunnett’s stone carvings involve the play of light over planar forms while Fitzmaurice’s work includes references to votive art from both Europe and Asia.
Visitors will be invited to contrast and compare these approaches with Stanley Spencer's celebrated wall-paintings of World War I in the chapel, which is a National Trust property, where the human figure, the human condition and belief are depicted.

Exhibition venue
Sandham Memorial Chapel, Harts Lane, Burghclere, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 9JT
Tel 01635278394 nationaltrust.org.uk/sandham-memorial-chapel

Visitor information
Open Wed - Sun 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. Free entry to the exhibtion. There is an optional entry fee to view the Stanley Spencer paintings in the chapel.

James Dunnett is a Cambridge-trained architect who was also a member of Anthony Caro's Advanced Sculpture Course at St Martin's in the 1970s. He later worked for the celebrated architect Erno Goldfinger RA. He has written art reviews for Art Monthly, Architects' Journal, Architectural Review, 3rd Dimension and other journals and translated Le Corbusier's book The Decorative Art of Today (1925), from which the title of the proposed exhibition is derived.

Robert Fitzmaurice is a full-time artist who has lived in Reading since 1984. Originally from Coventy he studied Fine Art in Sunderland and Reading before going on to exhibit widely in the UK and abroad. Recent exhibitions in Berkshire include ‘Soldier’ at Sandham Memorial Chapel (2018) and ‘No Eden’ at Greenham Control Tower (2019). Previous group exhibitions include Discerning Eye, RA Summer Exhibition, Creekside Open and The International Print Center, New

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