ROPER GALLERY EXHIBITIONS 2013—2014 Characters. People & Portraits from the Arts Council Collec on 12 October 2013—7 January 2014 This striking and entertaining exhibi on, selected from the Arts Council’s Collec on, brings together a host of characters both real and imagined. Painted by Bri sh ar sts over the last 60 years it will feature works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Paula Rego and 2013 Turner Prize nominated LyneGe YiadomBoakye, as well as many of the other leading figura ve ar sts of the last half-century.
Hugh Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland, Richard Hamilton, 1964 © Arts Council Collec on
Alongside the exhibi on the Museum is running a Schools’ Portrait Compe on. Open to secondary and primary schools in the B&NES area. The prize will encourage children to create imagined or self-portraits. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES •
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Joseph Wright of Derby Bath and Beyond 25 January —5 May 2014 Joseph Wright is one of the most important and most fascina ng ar sts of the eighteenth-century. The exhibi on explores Wright’s me in Bath, following his visit to Italy, as a turning-point that sheds light on his whole career. Building on the success of his earlier ‘fire-pieces’, living in Bath’s Brock Street he began to experiment with the effect of moonlight and fire on the landscape, rather than on figures in interiors. His explora on of the sublime in landscape, is matched by an interest in melancholy in contemporary literature that may be related to his own Mr & Mrs Thomas Coltman, Oil on canvas, deteriora ng health. c.1770-2, Joseph Wright of Derby © The Na onal Gallery, London
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Partner Sponsorship available from £7,500