“Showing works in galleries is a bit like putting them into a mausoleum. The house at Borde Hill creates its own atmosphere, because the work has to stand up for itself.”

So says sculptor Juginder Lamba from his studio in Gozo, Malta, about his exclusive three-week exhibition being shown across four rooms inside the Elizabethan Borde Hill mansion, which also gives visitors a rare chance to have a look around the Tudor building.

“When we first started discussing the show the original idea was to have the work outside,” says Juginder. “But when I went into the house itself I was knocked out, it is such a special place full of beautiful things.

“The sort of work I will be showing will be domestic, the sort of works people live with in their everyday lives. The spaces where the sculptures will be already have lots of historical paintings on show, so the works I have selected will complement them.”

The exhibition will include works selected from across the past 30 years as well as new pieces specially created for the three-week display.

Juginder was born in Nairobi more than 60 years ago, and moved to India when he was ten, before coming to the UK as a 14-year-old in 1962.

“There’s something very much about each culture manifesting itself through my ideas in my work,” he says. “There’s the stark nakedness which is very African, the spirituality which is Indian, and my European side, which is more pragmatic and conceptual.”

As a sculptor Juginder’s career began with carving railway sleepers, having moved on from an early interest in abstract painting. He was awarded a Henry Moore Fellowship In Sculpture at Liverpool’s John Moores University in 1994.

As well as carving a variety of woods, including 4,000-year-old bog oak, he has produced work in bronze and more recently stone, inspired by his home in Gozo, which features many limestone buildings.

“Limestone is naturally white in colour and quite soft, but it has a warmth that stone doesn’t normally have,” he says. “At the moment I am only making things I can take back with me on a plane, but the long-term plan is to take on bigger pieces.”

His work is very much based around nature, with seed pods and the female form in particular providing many of the subjects.

“I suppose concentrating on the female form comes from the notion of Mother Earth,” says Juginder. “It is also related to the Indian philosophy of tantra which sees the female form as the role of propagator of life. It can express so many different ideas from the purely physical and sensual to the spiritual and metaphysical.”

Examples of his work can be found in Raymond Blanc’s restaurant Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, as the chef is a big fan.

Juginder is now working towards another exhibition at Nottingham’s New Art Exchange, having previously displayed his work at the British Museum in London, the Bronx Museum in New York and, most recently, at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to critical acclaim.

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