The market darling Cecily Brown takes over Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, with over thirty works created in response to the country estate.
Installation view of “Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace”, Blenheim Palace, 2020.
Photograph by Tom Lindboe. Courtesy of Blenheim Art Foundation.
As an English artist in ‘exile’ in New York, Brown explores her own nostalgia for England but also addresses the political realities of nationalism, through her signature anarchic pop culture references. Inspired by all aspects of the palace history, her paintings draw on heraldry, the courtly genre of ‘the hunt’ and the family portraits themselves. While we are more traditionally accustomed to seeing Brown’s work in a ‘White Cube’ setting, the curation of Brown’s paintings within an eclectic manor house challenges the viewer. As the artist herself states “…I want visitors to do a double-take, to think for a second…
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