Jemma Hickman, founder of the Peckham-based gallery bo.lee in 2009, joined forces with Alice Workman, who had directed Hauser & Wirth Somerset since its foundation, to open Bo Lee and Workman in a former Methodist church on Bruton’s historic High Street in 2023. Adeline de Monseignat is making the most of that striking setting at the moment with her immersive installation ‘Playscape’. Using river pebbles as her primary material, she channels the inspiration of how her own children explore the world to cast adults into the childlike place of encounter with creaturely forms frozen in apparent motion as they echo the shapes and gestures of toddlers at play: crouching, crawling, tumbling, testing the world around them – ‘worming about’, as de Monseignat puts it.
Words by Paul Carey-Kent for FAD Magazine. Read more of the article here.
