Steven Claydon has selected a series of paintings by the Suffolk-born artist John Constable (b. 1776, d. 1837) and an iconic sculpture by the American minimalist Carl Andre (b. 1935) to accompany his exhibition.

Cloud studies painted by Constable during the 1820s are shown together with Carl Andre’s 1966 sculpture Equivalent VIII, the last piece in a group of works composed of 120 firebricks. Andre’s infamous series of stacked bricks were titled after a group of early twentieth century cloud studies by the photographer Alfred Stieglitz (Equivalents, 1925 – 34). Shown together with Constable’s paintings of rainstorms and sunsets, Claydon highlights the original significance of Andre’s title, that referred to the eight different arrangements of bricks which shared the same height, mass and volume and were therefore ‘equivalent’ to one another.

This display is made possible through loans and support from Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Arts and Tate.