Ever since Snape Maltings Concert Hall was created in 1967 artists have exhibited and installed work throughout the site, notably pieces by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas and Ryan Gander.

Sunk into the reeds in front of the Concert Hall, Migrant comprises two identical lozenge forms, approximately three meters in length. Fabricated in bronze with black patina, they are built like ships with bronze rivets and are supported on keels which lift them to the tops of the reeds.

Ancestor I, Ancestor II, and Parent I, collectively known as The Family of Man (1970) from ‘Nine Figures on a Hill’ were installed at Snape Maltings in 1976, the year after Dame Barbara’s death.

The sculptures are the property of the Fitzwilliam Museum and were placed on permanent loan to the Aldeburgh Festival (now Britten Pears Arts) as a memorial to Britten and Pears at the request of the Hepworth Estate.

Situated on the upper floor of the inner foyer of the Snape Maltings Concert Hall is Head of a Bull by Georg Ehrlich. 

The bronze sculpture was given to Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in 1970 by the Princess of Hesse and the Rhine in memory of her husband Ludwig (1908 – 1968) and of the sculptor Georg Ehrlich (1897 – 1966).

This work by conceptual artist Ryan Gander was made for the Great Exhibition of the North (2018) to celebrate the history of Northern innovation. It consists of 10 black sculptures made from a special glow-in-the-dark concrete material, each describing an object originally designed to emit or shine light. Each element is complete with a section of shiny mooring chain reminiscent of buoys or anchors, referencing the maritime history of the River Tyne and resonating with the Suffolk coast.

Commissioned by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2018

Apollo was carved in Italy c.1925 by sculptor John Skeaping

In June 1978 the sculpture was given in memory of Benjamin Britten by Peter and Mollie Sautoy.

You will find more sculpture at The Red House.