I've been accepted as a gallery volunteer at Compton Verney near Stratford upon Avon and have been undertaking training over the past few days. Take a look at their website on http://www.comptonverney.org.uk/ for details of the house and grounds. The gallery opens for the season on 26 March with two exhibitions - Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson which explores their relationship, Wallis' unique vision and his influence on Nicholson focussing on 1920-1940. The second exhibition is Wool work : A sailor's art starting with Compton Verney's items from its own Folk Art collection.
One other thing (apart from the development of the Capability Brown grounds) which I found really interesting was a Collection Intervention called What the folk say which runs all season to 11 December which sees items from Compton Verney's British Folk Art collection appearing in unexpected places around the main collections and the building as a whole. The staff and volunteers who attended the Training sessions found these juxtapositions of great interest causing much discussion about the objects and their positioning!
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