Sculpture at Messums
March – July 2025
Nicola Hicks ‘Dressed for the Woods’
8 March – 5 May
VENUE: Messums West
Messums is thrilled to announce the first solo retrospective of Nicola Hicks MBE FRSS – one of the most significant British sculptors of the 21st century. In celebration of the artist’s 65th birthday, the gallery will present more than 30 exceptional works, drawn from each major series of Hicks’ career to date. The magnificent 13th century tithe barn at Messums West will be the setting for this visual journey through the anthropomorphic, allegorical world of the artist, revealing her vision of humanity and the modern world, and exploring her idiosyncratic visual language that has garnered her enormous acclaim over the past four decades.
Elisabeth Frink: Facing Fear
18 March – 12 April
VENUE: Messums London
When Marina Abramovic opened her exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2023, many hailed it as the first solo show of a female artist in the institution’s 255-year history. What they didn’t realise was that 38 years prior, in 1985, Elisabeth Frink had in fact been the first woman to be given a solo exhibition.
2025 marks 40 years since this landmark exhibition and Messums London are presenting an exhibition of sculpture and drawings from across the artist’s remarkable career, including Soldier’s Head IV (1965), which was shown in the 1985 RA exhibition, and Small Warrior (1956) recently re-discovered and not shown in London since its attribution on the BBC’s Fake or Fortune programme in 2023.
Bridget McCrum ‘The Conference of the Birds’
18 March – 12 April
VENUE: The Walled Garden, Blenheim Palace
One of the last true Modernist sculptors in the tradition of Brancusi and Epstein, McCrum’s work references ancient civilisations, modern explorations into minimalism and abstraction, and her own relationship with the natural world.
Tom Waugh ‘Future Remains’
7 May – 14 June
VENUE: Messums London
In this new series of works, Waugh begins to expand upon his exploration of the value we place on ubiquitous objects, exploring the possibilities of trompe l’oeil to make us more cognisant of the objects with which we interact on a daily basis. His Puffer Jacket (2024), for example, plays with our comprehension, tricking the viewer into thinking that this object, which looks, to all intents and purposes, as though it is suspended on a small metal hook screwed into the wall, is as light, soft and insulating as the the item of clothing from which it was modelled.
Peter Logan ‘Kinesis’
10 May – 21 July
VENUE: Messums West
Peter Logan has made sculpture since leaving the Slade School of Art, London. Creating kinetic sculptures that express the spirit and movement of life is the essence of his work. Informed inter-disciplinarily by mathematics and engineering, Peter Logan’s sculptures are the visual meeting point between art and science, aesthetics and technology.
Laurence Edwards ‘SCULPTURE II’
26 July – 29 September
VENUE: Messums West
Laurence Edwards’ practice has long been preoccupied by the entwining of man, nature and time. One of the few sculptors who casts his own work, he is fascinated by human anatomy and the metamorphosis of form and matter that governs the lost-wax process. The driving force behind his work is bronze, an alloy that physically and metaphorically illustrates entropy, the natural tendency of any system in time to tend towards disorder and chaos.
Modern British Sculpture
Messums ORG specialise in Modern British sculpture, including the work of Elisabeth Frink. Our collection also includes work by Henry Moore, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Kenneth Armitage and William Turnbull and is currently on view at Messums London, Cork Street.
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Henry Moore ‘Maquette for Two Piece Reclining Figure: Cut’
