Recent curatorial projects include:

2025, Tractored by Beetles, Somerset Rural Life Museum, a group exhibition featuring Alice Crane, Jon England, Liz Gregory, Fiona Hingston, Tim Martin and Andre Wallace, responding to the landscapes of the West Country and Simon Armitage’s poem Fugitives.

2025, Recurring Intricacies, Helen Sear, Charlotte Hodes and Amanda Benson, The Sherborne, Dorset.

Complimenting and celebrating the meticulous restoration of Sherborne House, Recurring Intricacies unites photography, ceramics, papercuts and sculpture created by three female artists: Helen Sear, Charlotte Hodes and Amanda Benson. All three are captivated by craft, each producing artworks that activate and evoke a spectrum of feelings through our viewing habits. This newly restored Grade I listed townhouse, rooted in a vibrant Georgian heritage and preserved for the nation, has inspired their remarkable, thoughtful, and playful interventions.

2024-25, What Stories Make Worlds, focusing on our relationship with landscape and the environment at a time of climate change and biodiversity collapse, this exhibition charted a journey from the importance of our deep oceans and shorelines, along rivers to local hills and the gardens at Hestercombe. It brought together work by Emma Critchley, Feral Practice with Megan Broadmeadow, Hannah Fletcher, Lydia Halcrow and Jem Southam and included work from Hestercombe’s own collections, together with a newly commissioned audio play by Stephanie Weston. Hestercombe Gallery.

2024, DECENNIUM, featured artists: Tania Kovats, Helen Sear, Simon Faithfull, Alex Hartley, Mariele Neudecker, Philippa Lawrence, Sarah Bennett, Trish Morrissey, Susan Derges, John Newling, Feral Practice, Brendan Barry, Sophy Rickett, Liz Nicol, Jo Lathwood, Lucy Soni, Fiona Hingston, Simon Bayliss, Rebecca Partridge, Megan Calver and Gabrielle Hoad.

In May 2014, Hestercombe House and its contemporary galleries opened to the public for the very first time, reuniting the house with its famous period gardens. The gallery programme ambitiously planned to bring artists with national and international profiles to Somerset, deliver residencies and curate original shows that linked to, and were inspired by, the landscapes that surround it. Hestercombe Gallery.

2023-24, Landscapes of Progress? Rebecca Chesney, Simon Hitchens, Marie-Louise Jones, Hugo Lami, Madinah Farhannah Thompson and Mirte van Duppen; all of whom make work inspired by this question. Whether attempting to understand and present individual views of the world around us, exploring history, change or using innovation and environmental ways to create art. Hestercombe Gallery.

2023, Susan Derges: Many Moons, thoughtfully reflected on thirty years of printmaking, whilst also drawing on objects and artworks from Hestercombe’s own collections, as well as through the words of two contemporary poets, Fiona Benson and John Wedgwood Clarke. Hestercombe Gallery.

2023, Design for Life: Art and Architecture – Part 1 visually explored the historical intersection of art and architecture together with the interactions of artists and architects from the past 65 years. Full artist and architect list: C.W. Bampfylde, Derek Boshier, Lea Cetera, Christo, Keith Coventry, Constant, Michael Craig Martin, Toni Davey, Elmgreen & Dragset, Jon England & Megan Calver, Tony Fretton, Cyprien Gaillard, Andreas Gursky, Henry Hall, Marine Hugonnier, Ugo La Pietra, Leonhard Lapin, Le Corbusier, Bridget Riley, Superstudio, Ulla von Brandenburg and Liu Wei. Hestercombe Gallery

2022, A Rose is a Rose is a Rose. (co-curated with Kate Best) Artist’s Brendan Barry, Feral Practice, John Newling, Sophy Rickett and Marjolaine Ryley presented new works exploring art and sustainability in the face of the climate emergency and declining biodiversity, engaging with gardens and landscapes as sites for practice and enquiry, addressing questions of meaning and ethics, and community and collaboration. Hestercombe Gallery

2021, Things That Pass a Thousand Times: Unearthing Hestercombe’s Collections displayed never-before-seen objects from Hestercombe’s collections alongside key artefacts that explored the past five centuries of this important house and gardens. Showcasing an array of items, from the key that unlocks the Warre family chest to the trowel that Gertrude Jekyll used in her garden, this exhibition revealed a treasure trove of history and aims to tell the stories of the people who shaped Hestercombe’s past and present. Hestercombe Gallery

2021, Changing Atmospheres featuring Paul Emmanuel, Fiona Hingston, Trish Morrissey, Susie Olczak, Alexandra Searle, Lucy Soni, Peter Stiles, Madinah Farhannah Thompson and Matt Stokes. Hestercombe Gallery

2021, Mariele Neudecker: Sediment. Hestercombe Gallery

2021, Landscape Portrait: Now and Then featuring Gilbert and George, Trish Morrissey, Andy Warhol, Jo Lathwood, Susie Olczak, Susan Derges, John Coplans, Sarah Lucas, Alek O., Jane Mowat, Ken Kiff, Patrick Caulfield, Derek Jarman, Claudette Johnson, Balraj Khanna, Leon Kossoff, Anna Liber Lewis. Hestercombe Gallery

2020, Most Admirably Improved by Art featuring Charlotte Hodes, Rebecca Partridge, Kelly Richardson, Fiona Hingston with Coplestone Warre Bampfylde. Hestercombe Gallery

2019, Simon Faithfull: Elsewhen, Hestercombe Gallery

2018/19, Materiality: provisional states. Featured artists: Sarah Bennett, Megan Calver and Philippa Lawrence,Hestercombe Gallery

2018, Helen Sear: Prospect Refuge Hazard 2, Hestercombe Gallery

2018, Cultivation: Points of Vantage. Featured artists: Anna Barriball; George Shaw; John Brown; John Newling; Mariele Neudecker; Mary Griffiths; Mary McIntyre; Mikhail Karikis. Hestercombe Gallery

2017, Tim Knowles: Dynamics of Drifting, Hestercombe Gallery

2017, Regions of Light, Rev. John Eagles, Paul Desborough, Rebecca Chesney, Jem Southam. Hestercombe Gallery

2016, Terrain: Land into Art, Hestercombe Gallery

2016, New Dimensions – Contemporary Art Inspired by Hidden Objects. The Museum of Somerset, Taunton.

2015, A Personal Passion – The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art

2015, Combat Art – Reflections of Afghanistan, Menier Gallery, London

2015, Second Site, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset

2014, Leaping the Fence, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset

2013, R.E.P Group – Mediators (co-curated with Simon Lee Dicker) OSR Project Space, West Coker, Somerset

2013, Outside In, West, Museum of Somerset