ABOUT

The New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park 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 at Roche Court was originally built in 1804 for the family of Admiral Nelson. The park and woodlands which surround the house enable us to focus on exhibiting outdoor sculpture, making the New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park 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. Today, the gallery continues to show those artists who first exhibited with us decades ago. Now in mid- or late-career, we site those artists in the gardens and in our award-winning contemporary indoor spaces.

We have 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 us to stage a closely-curated exhibition programme of modern and contemporary painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics and textiles. 

THE GALLERY & ORANGERY

The first indoor gallery opened in 1998. The building comprises an entire wall of floor to ceiling windows that connect the main house, originally built in 1804, to the nineteenth-century Orangery. The building was conceived on the basis that any exhibition on view could be enjoyed from the outside.

The Gallery & Orangery adopts a material language seen throughout our contemporary spaces, including frameless glass, oak, Chilmark stone and smooth natural render.

Completed in 2001, the aim of the Artist’s House was to provide a contemporary domestic space for the display of smaller works of art.

The space was inspired in part by Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, a place celebrated for the way it unites artwork and the quotidian, bringing exceptional pieces into a setting that is modest, liveable, and tranquil.

THE ARTIST’S HOUSE

THE DESIGN HOUSE

Located in Roche Court’s walled garden, the Design House opened in 2018 as our most recent addition.

Using the original Garden Cottage as a starting point, Stephen Marshall transformed and enlarged the original building to create a unique blend of gallery and living space. The building is a functional home.

Like the Artist’s House, the aim of this space is to encourage visitors to see how painting, sculpture, ceramics and furniture can coexist and provide joy in the home.

  • Anthony Caro, Palanquin, 1987

  • Paul Morrison, Hyazinthe, 2014

  • Jacob van der Beugel, Mutation 1, Mutation 2, Mutation 3, Mutation 4, 2020

  • Edward Allington, From the Sex of Metals II, 1989