Episode 13

A fascinating new exhibition has recently opened at Abbot Hall in Kendal to mark the gallery’s recent refurbishment and reopening.

Run by Lakeland Arts, Abbot Hall has been shut since early 2020.  Since then over half a million pounds worth of work has gone on to modernise the building as well as offering time to its curators to pause and rethink its direction of travel and purpose.

The result is a much brighter, fresher gallery space as well as enhanced facilities and infrastructure. And an exhibition by internationally renowned British artist Julie Brook called What Is It That Will Last?

Tom Speight has been to meet the people behind the refurb for this month’s Behind the Scenery, as well as recording a chat with Julie Brook at Holker Hall, the location of her huge brand new outdoor sculpture connected to the exhibition called Out of the Ground, A Thread of Air…