What does it mean to get away from the hustle of home, family and city life to a country cottage where you can embrace the gift of ‘me time’? FIONA MCKENZIE JOHNSTON sets out to find an answer with BHARTI KHER at a quiet artist residency in the English countryside
“I don’t think there could be two more polar opposite places than Delhi and Somerset,” remarks Bharti Kher, staring out into the slow English dusk that has gradually enveloped us in a quiet stillness, contrasting with the sound of Kamasi Washington’s jazz and the reek of resin that fills this artist’s temporary space. Kher has been carving up and re-gluing clay figures that are lined up on trestle tables, while the setting sun has been streaking the huge sky pink, silhouetting trees that are shedding leaves like a peacock sheds its tail feathers. “There’s a window upstairs from which the view is picture-perfect,” she remarks, “The colours are crisp: blue skies, orange trees and hundreds of shades of green.”
A ROOM OF HER OWN
Kher’s return to rural England—it is not an unfamiliar landscape; she grew up in Surrey—is as an artist-in-residence at the leading international gallery Hauser & Wirth’s West Country outpost at Durslade Farm. Exhibitions are housed in a collection of farm buildings, and the farm itself provides food for the gallery’s Bar & Grill. There is a garden designed by Piet Oudolf, a pavilion by Smiljan Radic, and sculptures by Paul McCarthy and Kher’s artist husband, Subodh Gupta, which I suggest might add to the feeling of familiarity. “I look at it and think, ‘I know how you started!’” Kher replies, smiling. The house and studio for visiting gallery artists is located a short walk into town, in a former malt house behind Bruton’s single-lane High Street. Kher is here for four months.
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