THREE new exhibitions open next week at the Down Stairs gallery at Great Brampton House in Madley .

The Stone of Folly references Arthur’s Stone, a Neolithic site in the Golden Valley , which has become the subject of local folklore and forgotten histories.

Curator William Cobbing has invited artists to contribute works that play with the overlapping notions of fantastical narrative and shifting materiality. The exhibition will engage with ideas of superstition, alchemy, folly, entropy and flux that derive from the disjointed historical accounts of the site and how we ascribe meaning to found objects and places.

The second of the three exhibitions is entitled Tainted Love and takes unconditional devotion as its theme.

Completing the triptych is Space by Emily Fryer, who, since graduating from St Martin’s School of Art in 2009, has been artist in residence on building sites along the Herefordshire/Powys borders. Immersing herself in deconstruction and reconstruction. All three exhibitions open on Saturday, September 29. The Stone of Folly and Tainted Love run until November 18, Space by Emily Fryer runs until December 22.. Visit downstairsgallery.co.uk