Donum Estate is home to The Donum Collection, one of the largest accessible private sculpture collections in the world. It features over 60 monumental, site-specific works dotted across the landscape by globally renowned artists such as Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama, Keith Haring, Louise Bourgeois, and Richard Hudson. The newest piece is Look III (Show) by Antony Gormley.
Antony Gormley’s Slabworks extend the language of his earlier Blockworks and explore the human body as both structure and presence. Composed of interlocking planes that build a body, these works hold a tension between inward reflection and outward orientation. Cast in solid iron as a single form, the Slabwork 'Look III' conveys weight and permanence, while its open, stacked construction introduces a sense of balance poised against vulnerability. Originally conceived in response to a commission for Pilane, an ancient burial site along the Baltic coast of southern Sweden, the Slabworks were developed in dialogue with an expansive landscape: open ground, distant horizons, and vast skies. 'LOOK III' 2016 | Antony Gormley (1950, UK)
Their form recalls both the precariousness of a house of cards and the enduring mass of megalithic structures, binding contemporary urban sensibility to deep historical memory. At The Donum Estate, 'Look III' is sited on a hillside, where its verticality and shifting planes engage directly with the surrounding terrain and long vineyard views. Set within an open landscape, the figure becomes at once a solitary presence and a point of connection—anchored to the earth, oriented toward the horizon, and in quiet conversation with the land.
