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Lynn Chadwick at Houghton Hall

• 7 May 2026 2.00pm - 5.00pm
• Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6UE
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Lynn Chadwick at Houghton Hall (£48.00)

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Join us and be amongst the first to see this major exhibition of sculpture by the celebrated post-war British artist Lynn Chadwick CBE (1914–2003). Spanning four decades of the artist’s career, from the 1950s to the 1990s, the exhibition showcases over 30 works, including previously unseen and rarely exhibited works alongside his best-known sculptures, across the house and grounds of Houghton Hall. It will form the largest exhibition of Chadwick’s work in the UK in more than two decades.

Chadwick came to sculpture through unconventional means, initially training and working as an architectural draughtsman before turning to mobile constructions for trade fairs. The success of these early mobiles and free-standing sculptures, two of which were shown at the Festival of Britain in London in 1951, encouraged him to pursue sculpture full time. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Chadwick’s practice was rooted in construction rather than modelling. Working primarily in bronze, he moved from kinetic mobiles in the late 1940s to the iconic angular figures — often paired and drawn from human and animal forms — from the 1950s onwards.

Chadwick came to international prominence in 1952, when he was included in the British Council’s New Aspects of British Sculpture exhibition at the XXVI Venice Biennale. In 1956, he returned to the British Pavilion, where he won the International Prize for Sculpture (beating Alberto Giacometti). He remains the youngest sculptor ever to receive the award. Seventy years on, this anniversary offers a timely moment to revisit Chadwick’s pivotal role in the history of post-war British sculpture.

Growing up at Lypiatt Park — the medieval manor house in Gloucestershire my father acquired in 1958, in the same decade in which he produced the earliest works in this exhibition — we were always aware of how deeply he considered the way his sculpture lived within the spaces of the house and landscape. It is especially rewarding to see the work placed in dialogue with the architecture and grounds at Houghton Hall, where that spatial sensitivity can be experienced in a new way.
Daniel Chadwick, son of Lynn Chadwick

With Amanda Geitner as our guide, we will begin with a walk across the grounds and gardens to see the works placed in the landscape and then head inside to see works by Chadwick on show in the Hall. We will finish our day with tea and cake in the Old Kitchen.

Tickets are £48 per person and include entrance, tour and refreshments. Please wear shoes for walking, we will be on the move!

1.45pm	Arrivals and meet in the Stable Courtyard
2.00pm	Tour of the Lynn Chadwick exhibition
4.00pm	Afternoon Tea in the Old Kitchen
5.00pm	Close

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