Autumn sees two exciting exhibitions go on display at Warwickshire's Compton Verney, Reena Saini Kallat’s Common Ground and new touring exhibition Dutch Flowers, in partnership with the National Gallery London.

Indian Artist Reena Saini Kallat’s solo exhibition Common Ground is a carefully woven tapestry of themes, investigating notions of borders, migration, inequity and citizenship.

In Kallat’s powerful work maps, rubber-stamps, flags and the constitutions of nations become tools to address political and social boundaries and global inequalities. Based in Mumbai, India, Kallat’s own family’s past overlaps with the partition of the subcontinent into the two entities of India and Pakistan in 1947, and the division is a thread that runs through the exhibition. The friction between manmade and natural boundaries is also a recurring theme in Kallat’s work, with rivers and the types of flora and fauna officially assigned to represent nations becoming part of a glossary of signs through which she questions hierarchies of power and notions of enmity and harmony.

Reena Kallat’s work has been widely exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

This exhibition will be the largest of her work to date in the UK. Spanning a decade of her practice, it will include new works, and shows at Compton Verney until until 22 January 2023.

In partnership with the National Gallery, London, Compton Verney hosts an exquisite exhibition exploring the development of Dutch flower painting from its beginnings in the early 17th century to its blossoming in the late 18th century.

Dutch Flowers is an exciting, new touring exhibition which is part of the National Gallery’s initiative to share highlights of its collection with regional galleries and museums across the UK. It originally opened in Trafalgar Square in 2016, to great critical acclaim.

Visitors to Compton Verney in Warwickshire will be able to enjoy ten masterpieces of the genre, with nine paintings on loan from the National Gallery and another from a private collection. Dutch Flowers examines the origins of Northern European flower painting, the height of its popularity in the Dutch Golden Age and its final flowering in the late 18th century.

Dutch Flowers shows at Compton Verney until Sunday 15 January

Find out more about Compton Verney and their current exhibitions at comptonverney.org.uk.

Photo credit: Reena Kallat, Woven Chronicle, 2018