Martin Puryear at Parasol Unit

Surveying forty years of Puryear’s career, taking in large-scale works in wood and metal to rarely seen prints, Parasol unit reveal his dedication to natural materials and expose his highly personal, curvy formal vocabulary, somewhere between abstraction and figuration.

John Chamberlain: Sculptures at Inverleith House

In 2015 we awarded a grant to Inverleith House, part of the Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh, enabling them to stage the first exhibition of John Chamberlain's works in a UK public gallery. The exhibition ran from 25 July to 4 October 2015 with outdoor sculptures on display until 9 December 2015.
The Director and Curator of Inverleith House, Paul Nesbitt, writes about the impact of the exhibition.

Art Sheffield: Zero Hours

In 2013 we awarded a grant of £9,000 to Art Sheffield for their Festival of Contemporary Art. The grant enabled Art Sheffield to agree the loan of 'Wirtschaftswerte' ('Economic Values') by Joseph Beuys from the SMAK collection in Ghent. Art Sheffield took this key historical work as the provocation for the festival theme, Zero Hours.

The Pier Arts Centre - 'Two Forms (Orkney)'

The addition of Barbara Hepworth's 'Two Forms (Orkney)' to the Pier Arts Centre Collection had been a long held aspiration of the Centre. The sculpture was identified as being the most important art work relating directly to the collection that had remained - until now - outside of it.