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Touring Exhibition at Nymans: Last Night For Ever I
A touring sculpture by artist and curator Andrea Gregson and featuring a sculpture in the garden in the ruins. The sculpture can be seen as part of a garden tour only and tours are subject to availability.
Booking not needed. This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.
Monday 18 August to Sunday 30 November 2025, 11am to 12noon and 2pm to 3pm
The sculpture will reference fire as both a destructive and reconstructive force of nature. Sited inside the ruined great hall, which burned down in a fire in 1947, it will respond to histories of garden ruins, perspectives and optical illusions with the interior structure reminiscent of a model theatre.
The renowned set designer Oliver Messel formerly lived in the house. Last Night For Ever was originally exhibited at The Garden Museum, London in 2009, responding to lost green space and the spectacular Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, a once thriving public gardens between 1661-1859, sited by the Thames. The sculpture made connections between garden histories past and present, merging the visual trickery of the grotto first created in Renaissance Italy, with found objects and visual motifs from this location over time.
The sculpture, whose title was taken from the name of the closing event at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens on 25th June 1859, will be exhibited again at three National Trust historic buildings and landscape gardens located in the Southeast of England, including Leith Hill Place, Nymans and Winkworth Arboretum. (Tours subject to availability).
For more information call 01444 405250, email nymans@nationaltrust.org.uk or go online at www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nymans ...
Booking not needed. This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.
Monday 18 August to Sunday 30 November 2025, 11am to 12noon and 2pm to 3pm
The sculpture will reference fire as both a destructive and reconstructive force of nature. Sited inside the ruined great hall, which burned down in a fire in 1947, it will respond to histories of garden ruins, perspectives and optical illusions with the interior structure reminiscent of a model theatre.
The renowned set designer Oliver Messel formerly lived in the house. Last Night For Ever was originally exhibited at The Garden Museum, London in 2009, responding to lost green space and the spectacular Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, a once thriving public gardens between 1661-1859, sited by the Thames. The sculpture made connections between garden histories past and present, merging the visual trickery of the grotto first created in Renaissance Italy, with found objects and visual motifs from this location over time.
The sculpture, whose title was taken from the name of the closing event at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens on 25th June 1859, will be exhibited again at three National Trust historic buildings and landscape gardens located in the Southeast of England, including Leith Hill Place, Nymans and Winkworth Arboretum. (Tours subject to availability).
For more information call 01444 405250, email nymans@nationaltrust.org.uk or go online at www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nymans ...
Mon 18 Aug to Sunday 12 October
Nymans
Handcross
near Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6EB
11am to 12noon and 2pm to 3pm This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.
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