This September, Funny Weather Gallery presents its inaugural exhibition Strange Objects, set within a forest and garden landscape in Hampshire.
Exploration is encouraged; the viewer must walk through the forest as if on a quest to find treasure, stumbling upon strange objects along the way. Sculptures emerge gradually from the landscape — among trees, beside the pond, through shifting light, or discovered by chance. There is no prescribed route. Instead, the exhibition unfolds through movement, intuition, and encounter, replacing the neutrality of the gallery with an experience shaped by environment and atmosphere.
At the centre of the exhibition is the idea of return: returning objects to their nature, and materials to their source. Though man-made, the sculptures are composed of elemental materials, each originating from the earth in some form. Removed from industrial or domestic contexts and placed within the forest, these objects are returned home, entering into direct dialogue with the landscape from which they ultimately came. The exhibition explores the tension and harmony between the constructed and the organic, between human intervention and the natural world.
This relationship between materiality and space shapes the experience of the works. The sculptures do not sit apart from the environment, but exist within it, altered by weather, light, moisture, season, and time. Morning mist, rain, wind, or dusk continually reshape how the works are seen and understood. The forest itself becomes an active participant in the exhibition, absorbing the objects back into its rhythms and conditions.
The exhibition also proposes a return in mindset — towards curiosity, instinct, and wonder. Making becomes exploratory rather than controlled; materials are approached not as static substances, but as living matter with histories and origins of their own. Viewers are invited into a space where perception slows down and attention sharpens, where encounters feel intuitive rather than directed.
Positioned as an escape from the pace and structure of urban life, Strange Objects invites visitors into a landscape where imagination and material coexist. Like entering another world, visitors step into a space where logic softens and emotional states become tangible, where sculpture is encountered not only through sight, but through sensation, atmosphere, and memory.
Works are hidden among trees, revealed through light, or discovered unexpectedly through wandering. In this way, the exhibition resists fixed interpretation, instead encouraging a deeper awareness of space, material, and the quiet relationship between human-made forms and the natural world that surrounds them.
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