New events for the summer at Burton Constable Hall as artists’ group continues to enhance the offering

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Exclusive collaboration between stately home and region’s creatives

‘Burton Constable Hall has always been a place where history, heritage and culture meet’

1. East Riding Artists’ (ERA) exclusive collaboration with Burton Constable Hall continues throughout the summer, alongside the group’s annual exhibition in Beverley Minster which launches on Tuesday, May 26. The ERA, one of the north’s largest art groups, has gone from strength to strength since taking over the prestigious Stables Gallery at Burton Constable for the whole of 2026.
2. Its next exhibition, Water’s Edge, runs from June 9 to July 19, following on seamlessly from the showcase of creativity in the heart of Beverley. While the exhibition in the Minster is based on a wide range of subjects, the schedule in Burton Constable follows more structured themes.
3. Water’s Edge will focus on the county’s striking coastline and waterways, interpreted through 2D and 3D work. Future themes include Secret Garden, Echoes and From My Window.
4. There will also be an exhibition to include associate members in the Riding School between July 29 and August 12.
5. The house attracts up to 40,000 annual visitors from all over the world who are drawn not only by the property’s highly-acclaimed range of Chippendale furniture but also by its unique Cabinet of Curiosities, a collection of scientific instruments, antiquities and natural history specimens. They are regarded as the most significant surviving collection of its kind in any English country house.
6. In addition, The Curiosity Garden explores William Constable’s remarkable collection of dried plants, known as his “dry garden”, and the story of the Herbarium at Burton Constable Hall. Bringing together local and exotic specimens, the Herbarium reflects a culture of collaboration that crossed social class and gender boundaries in the 18th century.
7. The exhibition, which runs until November 1, focuses on the Herbarium’s creation between the 1740s and 1760s and on William Constable’s role after inheriting the estate in 1747. It goes on to show how William Constable shaped the wider parkland following his inheritance, leading into the major landscape changes carried out by Capability Brown in the 1770s.
8. Together, these exhibitions are likely to draw even more visitors to the Hall over the coming months. Alasdair Hutson, chief executive of the Burton Constable Foundation, said: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with East Riding Artists to bring a full year of creative programming into the Stables Gallery. Burton Constable Hall has always been a place where history, heritage and culture meet, and this collaboration will give visitors the opportunity to enjoy an ever-changing series of exhibitions by some of the region’s most talented artists.”
9. The house, and its surrounding parkland, has been the home of the Constable family for over 700 years. The Foundation was established in 1992, following negotiations between the Chichester-Constable family, the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Leeds City Council, to secure the house and parkland’s long-term future, although descendants of the family still own the surrounding agricultural estate and continue to occupy the south wing of the house.
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