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Inspired to stitch: Hidcote Revisited, by Janet Haigh

5 April - 10 August 2025

(Free event, normal admission applies. No need to book.)

This spring, Hidcote welcomes embroidery artist Janet Haigh to the Manor House. Janet’s intricate and distinctive pieces of embroidery will bring the garden to life in a new way.

The inspiration for the exhibition can be traced back to Janet’s early career. Hidcote was the first National Trust garden she visited, in the mid-1970s, and the experience was to have a lasting impact on her work. Her textile designs are all inspired by a love of gardens and flowers, with a particular fascination for topiary. Revisiting Hidcote after the pandemic inspired Janet to create a series of hand-stitched and ornamented giclée prints, or ‘dressed prints’, based on the garden’s handsome topiary birds.

As well as a series of new pieces inspired by Hidcote, visitors will gain an insight into a career that has spanned more than five decades; encompassing many exhibitions, books and awards, as well as a tenure as a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Textiles and Research Fellow at the University of the West of England. The exhibition shows both Janet’s experimental work and her professional work as a textile designer.

Several of Janet’s works will be for sale after the exhibition.   

Sculpture Exhibition

1 September - 2 November 2025

(Free event, normal admission applies. No need to book.)

For the first time in autumn 2025, Hidcote will be hosting a sculpture exhibition of more than 200 inspiring works of art by 55 different artists throughout the gardens and Manor House.

This exhibition is curated by David Waghorne and Kate McGovern from Sculpture Events, featuring both local and internationally acclaimed sculptors. The exhibition has been carefully curated to complement the different areas of the garden, and to deliver an eclectic exhibition to suit all tastes and budgets, with every sculpture being for sale. Covering themes such as the environment, sustainability and the intricacies of human nature, pieces that feature in this year’s exhibition have been inspired by the natural and wild world, human emotions, the uniqueness of our points of view and the materials themselves – including alabaster, bronze, aluminium and stained glass.

Legend, Myth and Fairytales at Hidcote by Anderson & Low

2026

Photographic artists Jonathan Anderson & Edwin Low discovered Hidcote during the COVID pandemic, and felt themselves to have been transported to an oasis of calm, removed from the stresses and uncertainties of everyday life: “a world more akin to legend, myth and fairy tales than present life”.

 Now, in collaboration with Hidcote National Trust, Anderson & Low will be creating an entirely new project, based around those first, primal reactions to discovering this magical garden, and created around the garden of Hidcote, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. The project will be premiered at hidcote in 2026. 

Collaborating since 1990, Anderson & Low’s photographic art resides in numerous museums and collections, including the National Portrait Gallery (London), the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Cleveland Art Museum, Museum of Fine Art, Houston and the National Gallery of Australia.

Their work is recognised for stretching the normal boundaries of photography, and the pair have worked with both the Star Wars and James Bond franchises.

 We are very excited to welcome them to Hidcote for this unique new exhibition.