Anthony Caro, Edmund de Waal and Camilla Løw, UK

The New Art Centre has secured another stellar trio of names to lure us to its Wiltshire gallery. Sculptor Anthony Caro is showing a series of mechanical jewellery, ceramicist Edmund de Waal is unveiling a new collection of framed vessels, while artist Camilla Løw is exhibiting her playfully abstract sculptures - all in the Centre's lofty Roche Court setting.
Caro's move to jewellery was born from a collaboration with Madrid-based Joyerias Grassy, which began in 2006. The English artist, who has had exhibitions at all the majors - from MoMA to Tate Britain - has long explored the dialogue between sculpture and architecture with his work, and his jewellery collection continues this conversation, albeit on a much more delicate scale. Expect gold and silver pieces with interlocking planes, nuts, bolts and hinges - even a spiral staircase.
Like Caro's jewellery, de Waal's creations are small, intricate and initially formed by hand. But the ceramicist's works are as much about the display as the individual vessels - as seen from his striking installation in the cupola of the ceramics gallery at the V&A, titled 'Signs and Wonders' (worth a visit in itself).
His new work at the New Art Centre continues his preoccupation with vitrines, which both frame the vessels and mysteriously blur them from the viewer with their panels of glass. Apertures in the vitrines allow in rays of light, which give an occasional glimpse of gold leaf and change the tones of the ceramics throughout the day.
Meanwhile, Norwegian-born Løw's new collection of sculptures is instilled with her characteristic theatricism. Though grounded by a pole and base, you almost expect each piece to start moving, flexing and dancing, like characters in a play.
Created specifically for the New Art Centre, these are joined by existing sculptures, of the type for which Løw is well known: geometric structures loosely balanced on concrete blocks - a whimsical response to the rigours of Russian Constructivism and American Minimalism.
From left: 'Montage' and 'Instrument' by Camilla Løw, 2010
'Brooch AA 13' by Anthony Caro, 2008, on show at the New Art Centre, Wiltshire
'Pendant BB 2' by Anthony Caro, 2008
'Pendant BB 5' by Anthony Caro, 2008
'Ring BB 16' by Anthony Caro, 2008
Pendant BB 4' by Anthony Caro, 2008
'Ring BB 19' by Anthony Caro, 2008
'Pendant BB 8' by Anthony Caro, 2008
'Pendant BB 1' by Anthony Caro, 2008
'Brooch AA 13' by Anthony Caro, 2008
'Brooch BB 12' by Anthony Caro, 2008
'Earrings BB 14' by Anthony Caro, 2008
'Pendant BB 9' by Anthony Caro, 2008
Ring BB 19’ by Anthony Caro, 2008
Edmund de Waal is showing a new collection of ceramics in vitrines at the New Art Centre
The vitrines both frame the vessels and mysteriously blur them from the viewer with their panels of glass. Apertures in the vitrines allow in rays of light, which give an occasional glimpse of gold leaf and change the tones of the ceramics throughout the day
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Malaika Byng is an editor, writer and consultant covering everything from architecture, design and ecology to art and craft. She was online editor for Wallpaper* magazine for three years and more recently editor of Crafts magazine, until she decided to go freelance in 2022. Based in London, she now writes for the Financial Times, Metropolis, Kinfolk and The Plant, among others.
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