Art Night

About the
exhibition

Art Night celebrated its fifth edition by touring locations across the United Kingdom for the first time including Compton Verney.

Transforming iconic and unexpected public spaces within London since 2016 Art Night 2021, curated by Helen Nisbet, stretched 1000+ miles across Scotland, England and Wales. From North to South, East to West, and even further, digitally and physically, for international audiences. For the first time Art Night took place for a month, allowing audiences the opportunity to access commissions, performances and interventions in rural locales, towns and cities as well as from home.

Activity at Compton Verney included Guerrilla Girls biggest UK public commission to date, The Male Graze. The commission included a website, online gig and national series of billboards – including one at Compton Verney – exploring bad behaviour, both historically and in the present day.

Artist Isabel Lewis also developed a new Art Night commission What can we learn about love from lichen? in the Scottish Isle of Skye. A co-commission between Art Night and ATLAS Arts, Isabel Lewis worked with collaborators in Skye to choreograph a series of guided walks brought together in a final ‘hosted occasion’, tuning the ears, eyes and the body to more sensuous forms of knowing and being together. In partnership with Compton Verney, Isabel Lewis drew on these choreographic scores to stage a new sound work within our 120 acres of Parkland. This included several locations across the Grounds and a ‘songbook’.