The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape

John Constable, Avenue of Trees (detail), ca. 1820,Photograph: Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service

The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape  brings unprecedented key loans from the National Gallery, Tate, V&A, Royal Academy, National Galleries of Scotland to Suffolk for the very first time to explore themes of landscape, place and walking.

Historic loans including Dedham Vale  (1828, National Galleries of Scotland) will be seen alongside Colchester + Ipswich Museum’s own Constable collection, including the two most personal paintings from his childhood home, Golding Constable’s Flower Garden  and Golding Constable’s Kitchen Garden  (both 1815).

A highlight will be Constable’s iconic masterpiece, The Hay Wain  (1821, The National Gallery) making its first ever visit to the county it depicts.

This exhibition will include Constable Ambisonic a sound artwork of field recordings from the locations of Constable’s most famous artworks today developed by artist Stuart Bowditch.