Ray Exworth spent his life filling Cornish sheds with breathtaking sculptures \u2013 but wouldn\u2019t let anyone in to view them. Now, after his death, his secret body of work has been revealed<\/p>\n
Ray Exworth spent six decades creating one of Britain\u2019s most extraordinary bodies of sculpture \u2013 and almost nobody has seen it. Hidden inside a labyrinth of sheds on a remote Cornish smallholding, his vast, obsessive constructions have remained locked away from the world, visited only by a fortunate few. Even his wife Susie, 92, was largely kept out. \u201cI could not visit without an invitation!\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n
Exworth, who died in 2015 aged 84, had just one major exhibition in his lifetime, at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1975. Since then, the man who might belong among Britain\u2019s most notable artists has disappeared almost entirely. His works \u2013 sprawling, intricate and wildly ambitious, assembled from an array of salvaged materials \u2013 have remained exactly where he left them: filling seven studio sheds and a scattering of shipping containers, unseen.<\/p>\n
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