Biography
New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court is a commercial gallery set in the rolling Wiltshire countryside, near Salisbury. Established in Sloane Street, London in 1958, the New Art Centre is a specialist in 20th and 21st-century art.
In 1994, the gallery moved from London to its current location at Roche Court, East Winterslow in Wiltshire. The house and Organgery at Roche Court was originally built in 1804 for the family of Admiral Nelson. The park and woodlands which surround the house enable the centre to focus on exhibiting outdoor sculpture, making the New Art Centre, Roche Court a pioneer of the commercially-run sculpture park in the UK.
Since 1958, the gallery has championed showing young and emerging artists as its core ambition. The New Art Centre represents various artists' estates including Barbara Hepworth, Kenneth Armitage and Ian Stephenson. Today, the gallery continues to show the artists who first exhibited with the New Art Centre decades ago. Now in mid- or late-career, those artists are sited in the gardens and in the award-winning contemporary indoor spaces.
New Art Centre commissioned Scottish architect, Stephen Marshall to add four indoor exhibition spaces at Roche Court Sculpture Park; The Gallery & Orangery; The Artist’s House; The Design House; and The Stable Gallery. Each have won several architectural awards. This expansion has enabled a closely-curated exhibition programme of modern and contemporary painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics and textiles.
