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In the Art House Greville Worthington’s life revolves around art so the holiday house he built at the bottom of his garden was never going to be ordinary…
First things first, it’s not a library and definitely not in New York. However, as one of the most stylish rental properties in the North East, its moniker, The New York Public Library, has you guessing from the start. Think ‘new’ with a small ‘n’ and the city of York down the road where owner Greville Worthington was inspired by the old public library when he set about creating his grand design of a holiday house. In the newly-opened rental property there are few books to be found. Plenty of noteworthy art though, as you might expect of its owner. Greville is a writer, curator, art collector and chair of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Greville’s own home is the gothic St Paulinus church which stands imposingly in the grounds of 15th Century Brough Park and which you drive past to get to the NYPL. The church also has a life as a gallery for his art collection and setting for one-off exhibitions and viewings. Greville has curated the Gerald Scarfe exhibition, ‘Milk Snatcher, The Thatcher Drawings’ currently at Bowes Museum and is also a member of the trading board at Baltic in Gateshead. In 2004 he was invited by Tate to be a judge for the prestigious Turner Prize. So art take a semi-serious role at the NYPL and its design elements are something he hopes will attract the art lover to stay in this part of North Yorkshire. “Usually in rental places people play it safe with what is on the walls; rural scenes or whatever and it can be quite drab.
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“I wanted to create a place I would be happy to stay. “You don’t have to like Damien Hirst to stay here, you are welcome to stay if you hate his work but the art is a point of interest, put there for people to make their own minds up,” he concludes. The art on the walls from his own Hirst collection includes works from the Pharmacy collection referencing pill bottles and pharmaceutical products. There are also works by Keith Coventry, an artist whose work Greville curated for an exhibition at the Bowes. Notably, his famous ‘kebab’ drawings. However, it is the natural surroundings that Greville hopes will draw people as much as the art within the NYPL. As a child he, “played in fields filled with bluebells and had picnics” in woodland surrounding the property called Horse Park Wood and High Garden Wood. He hopes to welcome generations more children to scramble in the woods and >>
You don’t have to like Damien Hirst to stay here, you are welcome to stay if you hate his work but the art is a point of interest MAR/APR15