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Fourteen everyday wooden objects, including a plug, chip fork, lolly stick, peg are arranged in a line on a wall. They have all been 'decorated' with different patterns of black lines, burnt by the sun.
Roger Ackling, Voewood 2011–12 © Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Fri 4 Apr 2025 - Sun 22 Jun 2025
SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling
Exhibitions
Visual Art
Event organiser:
Henry Moore Institute

This is the first survey and most comprehensive exhibition of the work of artist Roger Ackling (1947-2014), one of the most quietly influential artists of the late twentieth century.

For fifty years Ackling consistently made objects by burning wood – focusing sunlight through the lens of a hand-held magnifying glass to scorch repeated patterns of lines on the surface. Collecting driftwood from the beach at Weybourne near his home on the Norfolk coastline, as well as reclaimed broken and discarded materials, Ackling took little from the world to make his work and left nothing beyond a wisp of smoke in the air. 

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    Fri 4 Apr 2025 - Sun 22 Jun 2025
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    Free
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    Audio Described
    Baby changing facilities
    Buggy friendly
    Hearing Loop
    Wheelchair access

    Henry Moore Institute

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