The Artparks Sculpture Park is set in a sub tropical wildlife garden on the Channel Island of Guernsey. It shows up to 200 mostly contemporary sculptures every year by approximately 70-80 artists from the United Kingdom and around the world. It was opened by Charles Saumarez Smith CBE, who at the time was the director of the National Portrait Gallery in London. The selection of sculpture changes every year with a grand opening, usually around the third week in May.
The Artparks Sculpture Park was founded in 1998 by Peter de Sausmarez. Self funding.
Occasionally solo exhibitions are shown. Most of the sculpture is for sale and there are some sculptures that are semi permanent. There are occasional guided tours of the sculptures at certain times of the year.
Some of the sculptural artists who have exhibited to date are:
Marie Ackers | Carol Acworth | Neale Andrew | Anon of the East |
Halliday Avray-Wilson | Felicity Aylieff | Lida Baas | Patrick Barker |
David Begbie | Dawn Benson | Vega Bermejo Castelnau | Alan Biggs |
Robert Bowers | Monika Brors | Gill Brown | Dick Budden |
Heather Burnley | James Butler | Perryn Butler | Ronald Cameron |
Alan Card | David Cemmick | Daniel Clahane | Peter M Clarke |
Michael Cooper | Sean Crampton | Judy Ann Cropper | Anne Curry |
Anton Dala | Virginia Day | Martin Debenham | Helen Denerley |
Kate Denton | Shirley Diamond | Aragorn Dick-Read | Sophie Dickens |
Martin Duffy | Sukey Erland | Abbey Evans | Angela Farquharson |
Richard Fenton | Graham Findlay | Tim Fortune | Christine Fox |
Donald Foxley | Hilary Frew | Paul Gervis | Olwen Gillmore |
Nicola Godden | Dr. Nicholas Gold | David Goode | Amy Goodman |
Ben Greenwood | Paula Groves | Simon Gudgeon | Helen Gyngell |
Elisabeth Hadley | Veda Hallowes | Mark Yale Harris | John Hawkwood |
Martin Hayward-Harris | Michie Herbert | Alan Herriot | Silas Higgon |
Michael Hipkins | Barbara Hodgkins | Beatrice Hoffman | Kirk Hogben |
Andrew Horsfall | Deirdre Hubbard | John Huggins | Lynda Hukins |
Mark Humphrey | Angela Hunter | Christa Hunter | Ian Turnock & Susan Laughton |
Graham Ibbeson | Alan Jack | K. Jane Jones | Tom Joynson |
Simon Keeley | Lucy Kinsella | Alistair Lambert | Charlotte Lauer |
William Lazard | Jason Le Noury | Christine Lee | Nick Lloyd |
Peter Lyell Robinson | Michael Lyons | Andrew MacCallum | Rob J Maingay |
Vivien Mallock | Chris Manley | Jane McAdam Freud | Lorne Mckean and Edwin Russell |
Ev Meynell | Robert Mileham | Sheila Mitchell | Nicolas Moreton |
Dave Morris | Gail Morris | Moudoir | Terry New |
Peter Newsome | Peter Nicholas | Piers Nicholson | Gudrun Nielsen |
John Cyril O'Connor | Adam Oliver | Marilyn Panto | Gill Parker |
Gary Pickles | Guy Portelli | Kenneth Potts | Janis Ridley |
Sue Riley | Paul Riley | Mike Roles | Timothy Shutter |
Helen Sinclair | Paul Smith | Michael Speller | Antonia Spowers |
Geoffrey Stinton | Elizabeth Studdert | Jilly Sutton | Barry Sutton |
Jan Sweeney | Brian Taylor | Richard Thornton | Peter Thursby |
Todor Todorov | Sarah Tombs | Jennifer Urmenyi | Marcelle Van Bemmel |
Henk Van Putten | Patricia Volk | Mick Watson | Alex Wheeler |
Diana Whelan | Paul Wilson | Tolleck Winner | Faith Winter |
Olive Wootton | Jonathan Wylder | Althea Wynne | Jenny Wynne Jones |
Rafael Zabala | Philip Jackson |
The sculpture trail is located in St. Martins, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK in the grounds of the historic Sausmarez Manor. Amenities include free parking, a bus stop and a cafe.
Artparks Sculpture Garden is open daily, from 10am to 5pm. There is a small charge for admission and free loan guides to the sculpture park available.