Truth or Folly

A new art exhibition by award-winning Fractured Land Collective, exploring local stories of mystery and myth.

Truth or Folly runs 17th March 2026 – 28th February 2027 at Wycombe Museum.

Entry is free.

Truth or Folly is a brand-new contemporary art exhibition from the award-winning Fractured Land Collective.

This exhibition of sculpture, painting, printmaking, sound, photography and digital art uncovers a multitude of histories both real and imagined. Inspired by Wycombe Museum’s site, collections and the wider environs of the town, it creates a series of unexpected stories, myths, and magical reinterpretations of the past.

Wycombe Museum is wrapped in mystery, from the Saxon grave discovered amid a wedding party in 1901, to the speculation surrounding the mound in the grounds – was it a Roman fort, a medieval Civil War stronghold, or a Norman motte?  The kitchen in the Museum holds a sense of the unreal, a perfect setting for a Victorian ghost story. The nearby beech woods are full of beauty and hold tight onto the memories of the chair-making bodgers working in their shadowy depths.

In this year-long exhibition, real social history sits next to tales of fiction. Chair making tools are displayed alongside sculptures imagined for the future. Paintings and prints will suggest new narratives…

In Truth or Folly, Fractured Land Collective search for a secret shadow world, looking to excavate the past as it happened, while they invent alternative timelines and myths. The real and the mysterious co-exist, fiction inspired by fact.

With creative opportunities and events to get involved over the year. More information coming soon.

Fractured Land Collective is:

Ellie Reid

Lian Chan

Ellie Laycock

Jane Peacock

Caroline Thomson

@FracturedLandCollective

Exhibition Events

The Truth or Folly exhibition and its programme of events have been made possible by funding from an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant and Bucks Council’s Opportunity Bucks scheme.