Newlands House Gallery’s Artist in Focus at the shop, café and garden area highlights contemporary artists with exclusive works and special displays. Discover unique artworks, books, and limited editions that celebrate today’s leading creatives. Immerse yourself in art in a relaxed setting, where culture and conversation intertwine.

Julian Wild – Indeterminate

The two works exhibited at Newlands House Gallery are from an earlier series that Wild calls ‘Indeterminate’. These pieces both made in 2021 contain impossible, undefined scenarios that act as three dimensional puzzles: one turns itself inside out, the other turns itself around in a Mobius loop. Each is based on an ordered minimal geometric form: a vertical line and a square

that has become corrupted. The sculptures also reference structures and patterns in the natural world.

Latterly Wild has continued to corrupt order by creating playful sculptures based on cartoon-like events. These works contain narratives that reference the human condition. In these new works

I- Beams lean on and crush polished stainless steel elements that squash under their weight, suggesting ideas of subjugation and vulnerability.

Colour is central to Wild’s practice, working with a vivid palette from the built environment that signify objects as diverse as a modernist sculpture to a JCB, whilst nodding to the brighter colours found in nature.

Julian Wild’s duo Exhibition with Alison Hand ‘Faux Pas’ opens at HS Projects in Victoria, London in June.

Julian Wild has held Solo exhibitions at Modern Forms, Gurr Johns, Leighton House Museum, Modern Art Oxford and William Benington Gallery whilst taking part in group exhibitions including Beyond Limits at Chatsworth House, Sculpture in the City, Canary Wharf, The Fine Art Society and V22 London.

He has completed Commissions for: The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, The University of Oxford, Modern Forms, Fidelity lnvestments, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Crest Nicholson, Wyeth Europa, Schroders Investment Management, Radley College, Jerwood Sculpture Park, Sculpture in the Parklands in Ireland, Sir George Iacobescu, Cate Blanchett, The Lightbox

Gallery and Canary Wharf Group. 

In 2024 Wild attended a Thread Residency at The Albers Foundation in Senegal. He was awarded The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Arts club Trust Studio Bursary from 2009-2012. He won an individual Arts Council Grant in 2011, in 2005 he was a finalist in the Jerwood Sculpture Prize and won the Millfield Sculpture Prize in the same year.

Julian Wild was Vice-president of The Royal Society of Sculptors from 2015-2019. He was Sculpture Leader and Lecturer at The Art Academy London 2017-25.

He recently co-founded Cement with Alison Hand, an art school and studio complex in Newhaven, East Sussex.

www.julianwild.com @julianwildsculpture

Half a Dozen of 1 and Six of the Other
2021
Polished and painted stainless steel
74 x 74 x 61 cm
£20,000

Inside Out
2021
Polished and painted stainless steel
187 x 40 x 40 cm
£25,000

Peter Colombus – Biomimetics: Automotive Design Inspired by Nature

To celebrate the start of the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2025, we’re proud to introduce our new Maker in Focus: Peter Colombus. An acclaimed automotive designer and visualisation artist, Peter presents a striking collection of prints and 3D-printed objects.

The exhibition explores how nature-inspired design, combined with advanced digital tools, can shape the future of automotive design. Bringing together technology and natural principles, the exhibition highlights a new direction in design thinking, where innovation emerges from the logic of nature itself.

The Italian (2025)
1955 Ferrari 750 Monza inspired livery
design for Ferrari Daytona SP3
Archival Digital CType Print, on 5mm
Foamboard Mount, tray framed
61x91cm

M1C (2025)
1967 746 McLaren M1C sport livery
design for McLaren Elva
Archival Digital CType Print, on 5mm
Foamboard Mount, tray framed
61x91cm

Ashley Howard – Interplay

Ashley Howard is a celebrated British potter whose practice bridges the expressive potential of the wheel-thrown vessel with a deep exploration of ritual, material, and transformation.

Grounded in the traditions of East Asian ceramics and shaped by extensive experience in Japan and China, Howard’s work challenges conventional notions of permanence. Drawing on longstanding interests in spirituality, space, and the poetics of material, his practice speaks to the shifting relationships between people, place, and object.

Interplay brings together new and recent works that push the limits of ceramic possibility, where glaze becomes glue, the wheel becomes a tool of expressive force, and the vessel takes on ceremonial resonance. Each piece is approached not as a static object, but as part of an evolving process, often fired multiple times, fused with incompatible clays, and reworked until form and surface reach a dynamic equilibrium.

Composer John Cage’s concept of a “world of events as opposed to objects” resonates strongly with Howard’s understanding of his work as an ongoing process rather than a finished piece.

His deep connections with Japan and China reinforce this perspective, suggesting that rather than embodying permanence, ceramic objects exist in a constant state of flux. Though ceramics are often considered durable, they too are subject to transformation and change.

Described by critic David Whiting as “an assured but rigorous explorer,” Howard redefines the wheel-thrown form as a site of experimentation and reflection. Howards’ work is held in both public and private collections and has been exhibited internationally, from London, Winchester, and St Ives to Tokyo and Beijing.

CHALICE, mixed clays Thrown and altered clays with various glazes and enamels, £3,200

PARADIGM, porcelain
Thrown and altered porcelain with enamel, £680

Past Exhibitions…

Peta‘s playful and illusory mixed-media artworks offer visual and visceral experiences of difficult quantum questions raised by an exploration of the nature of light including entwined dualities, superposition, entanglements, interference patterns, indeterminate boundaries and the intrinsic interconnectedness of all things.

In science, the fundamental question of whether light is a particle or a wave, or indeed both, has perplexed physicists for centuries. The two-slit experiments to solve this have raised more even questions and revealed that both light and matter at the subatomic realm are bizarre and paradoxical. These experiments demonstrated the fundamentally dual nature of light, that it is both a particle and a wave. For Jacobs, particle/wave duality is a recurring motif explored in many different ways.

Quantum discoveries transcend the phenomenal world and raise philosophical considerations about the very nature of reality itself, uncovering notions of interconnectedness, wholeness, and infinity. For instance, the inseparability of the observer and the observed has led some physicists to conclude that the act of observation creates reality. In response, Jacobs’ artworks invite active engagement, rewarding the viewer’s bodily movement with playful views of shifting shapes, colours, and experiences of superpositions of dual opposites. Her works challenge fixed perspectives, encouraging the exploration of possibilities that exist beyond binary thinking.

Jacobs draws inspiration by physicist, David Bohm, whose theories of implicate and explicate orders and the holomovement move beyond dualistic thinking and separation of mind and matter to reveal underlying universal interconnectedness, wholeness and infinity.

Utilising optical materials commonly found in scientific laboratories, such as half-silvered mirrors, prisms, dichroic beam-splitters, and diffraction gratings, Jacobs delves into profound quantum concepts. These materials, pivotal to the two-slit experiment, unveil light’s enigmatic properties. When integrated into her artworks, these materials present multiple visual experiences simultaneously. As viewers traverse the space, elements undergo colour and shape transformations, appearing and vanishing in unexpected ways.

Through “Beyond Duality and Other Quantum Questions,” Jacobs invites viewers to embrace the paradoxes of quantum physics and transcend their perceptual boundaries. By doing so, she paves the way for novel thought processes and visual perceptions.

Peta Jacobs

Dr. Peta Jacobs is a textile mixed media artist, based in Bristol. Her PhD and ongoing research are inspired by the question posed by László Moholy-Nagy in Light Vision (1917): “Are space, time, and material one with Light?”

Jacobs work explores the paradox of immaterial substance, drawing from both quantum physics and Eastern mystical experience. Through her practice, she challenges certainty and perception, presenting shifting views that evolve with the viewer’s perspective.