Stockwell House—A Shared Space for Creative Exchange, Collaboration and Experimentation

The Grade-II listed building on Bruton High Street supports independent projects, research and exhibitions led by the community

Stockwell House—A Shared Space for Creative Exchange, Collaboration and Experimentation

The Grade-II listed building on Bruton High Street supports independent projects, research and exhibitions led by the community

Monday 8 June

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Stockwell House, 13 High Street, Bruton, Somerset

The gallery is delighted to be rejoining Bruton High Street with the reopening of Stockwell House—a shared space for creative exchange, collaboration and experimentation. Guided by Hauser & Wirth, it supports independent projects, research and exhibitions, fostering new ideas and connections within the wider community.

For the opening celebrations on Saturday 6 June and Sunday 7 June, ‘Bruton: A High Street Through Time,’ invited audiences to share recollections and discover more about the history of Bruton with writers and historians Emma Craigie and Philippa Lewis. An informal display presented early findings from their ongoing research project. Visitors viewed photographs and artefacts from late 19th and early 20th Century Bruton, alongside stories of the Stockwell family, after whom the house takes its name.

Drawing Matter ran a series of workshops for Bruton residents and visitors to the town. Using drawings from the Drawing Matter Collection, the workshops explored different ways that drawing can be used to gather and record information about the built environment and how it is experienced. Following the weekend of workshops, participants’ drawings were exhibited at Stockwell House alongside the drawings from the Drawing Matter Collection.

‘Reopening the doors of Stockwell House after a period of renovation and reflection feels incredibly special. We are excited to begin a new chapter that is shaped by the people, conversations and creative energy that surround us in Somerset. A meeting point to gather, think and share ideas together.’—Dea Vanagan, Senior Director, Hauser & Wirth Somerset

Image for left hero section — Stockwell House opening celebrations, Bruton, 2026. Photo: Clare Walsh

Image for right hero section — Stockwell House opening celebrations, Bruton, 2026. Photo: Clare Walsh

Other projects at Stockwell House include an artist’s residency with artist‑researcher Fiona Haines, who returned nine years after her Hauser & Wirth Exchange Residency for Post-MFA Students. She was in residence from 17 – 21 June, developing a participatory project exploring pause, attention and collective making. Visitors and members of the local community were invited to create a shared botanical artwork, join wellbeing events including guided meditation and kimchi workshops, and engage with her exhibition ‘Recovery.’

From 1 – 31 July, artist Jennifer Lewandowska will host an open studio titled ‘Sensual Nature,’ creating environments in the gallery and garden for the community to find rest and retreat. Through working with hypnotic sounds, poetic moving image works and a series of paintings and drawings, she will explore mysticism in the landscape and the healing energy of plants. She will host gatherings inspired by the elements—through conversation, walking and shared sensory experiences—inviting audiences to slow down, tune into the seasons and deepen their sensual connection with the natural world. Based between London and Somerset, Lewandowska’s multidisciplinary practice explores the intricate connections between the natural world and human existence. She works annually with Glastonbury Festival as a Creative Director, responsible for the design and art direction of Interstage, and in 2011, she co-founded and curated French Riviera, an artist-run gallery in Bethnal Green, East London.

For Somerset Art Weeks Festival, taking place from 19 September – 4 October, Kelvyn Smith will present ‘[Re] Covering—a Typo/Graphic Intervention,’ a graphic presentation of recovered and redesigned second-hand book covers, curated from the collection at Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Cary. Smith is a letterpress artist and designer based in Somerset, previously commissioned to create a series of limited-edition prints and bespoke identity for Hauser & Wirth’s 10 Years of Learning celebrations in 2024. As an antidote to the immediate—often dispensable nature of modern technology—Smith’s steadfast commitment to Letterpress allows a considered articulation of typography and detailed examination of language.

Applications to use the gallery spaces are now open. For further information and to share proposals please contact stockwellhouse@hauserwirth.com.