Normanby Hall awarded almost £50k by council for horse art trail

The exhibition will run until 5 January 2025

North Lincolnshire Council has awarded an organisation almost £50,000 to support a horse-themed art trail.

Money was given to the Derbyshire-based company, Wild in Art, to go towards an existing exhibition at Normanby Hall.

The exhibition celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of George Stubbs.

It focuses particularly on the English artist's connection to North Lincolnshire.

Wild in Art received £46,880 from the council in February to go towards the exhibition, which began on 1 March and will run until 5 January 2025.

The trail includes sculptures, paintings and sketchbooks of Stubbs' work on the ground floor of the hall and a life-sized horse model painted to show the bones and muscles in the stable yard.

The Local Democracy Reporting Service said local schools would create their own artworks as part of engagement with the exhibition.

'The Anatomy of the Horse' was put together by George Stubbs in Horkstow

Stubbs, who was best known for his paintings of horses, spent part of his life in Horkstow, undergoing preliminary work for the publication of his book 'The Anatomy of the Horse'.

He also undertook physical dissections and illustrated many horse carcasses in the village, which is eight miles away from Normanby Hall Country Park.

Two of his patrons were Sir Henry and Lady Nelthorpe of Baysgarth House, Barton-upon-Humber.

Normanby Hall Country Park is managed by North Lincolnshire Council.