Thomas J Price’s inaugural exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in Somerset, presents two decades of conceptual enquiry spanning film, early sculpture, and the artist’s largest figurative bronze to date. His personal approach readdresses historic narratives and inverts our sense of familiarity, distilling signifiers of status to question the mechanisms in place that reinforce our cultural values.

Using methods of presentation, material and scale, Price explores expectations and assumptions, simultaneously drawing the viewer in whilst considering the space we create between ourselves and the work itself. Upon entering the first gallery, visitors will encounter Reaching Out (2020), the artist’s widely celebrated public sculpture situated on The Line, London and The Donum Estate, California, installed within a gallery context for the first time. The larger-than-life figurative work will stand alongside a new towering 12ft bronze, All In (2021), each capturing ‘in-between’ moments of everyday contemporary subjects. Manifested from composite images, the fictional characters function as psychological portraits that despite their scale appear unassuming and instantly recognisable. The works focus our attention on the systemic marginalisation within public monuments, constructed through the artist’s hybrid approach of traditional sculpting and intuitive digital technology.