EXHIBITIONS
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All of the exhibitions taking place in association with this year’s Festival are free, and open to the public one hour prior to an event taking place at the exhibition venue and 30 minutes after its conclusion.
PARABOLA ARTS CENTRE
APSE, PITTVILLE PUMP ROOM
Peter D. Granville-Edmunds Flow Mixed-media abstract painting
Robert Goldsmith For the love of it: Pencil sketches and watercolours
Peter is a local artist with an international reputation – his work featured at the prestigious Biennale dell’Arte, in Florence, last year and is owned by collectors around the world. These emotionally charged abstract paintings have been especially made for Music12 and are spontaneous, in-the-moment responses to a selection of the music being performed this year.
This is the third year Robert has been resident at Pittville Pump Room, capturing the intensity of rehearsal and performance in real time with his rapid-fire sketches. He will be showing work in progress, along with worked-up pieces, from previous years in this up-close-and-personal view of the Festival.
SPA WELL, TOWN HALL COS Members’ Exhibition Artists from Cheltenham Open Studios transform the Spa Well into a mini exhibition space to showcase a selection of the visual art being created locally.
HOLST BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM Gustav Holst: an Englishman Abroad How foreign cultures influenced and inspired the composer Jackie Morris A Winter’s Tale In support of the Musicians Benevolent Fund
A special exhibition to reflect the Festival’s British Musical Explorers theme.
For each of the last 13 years, Jackie Morris has been commissioned by the Musicians Benevolent Fund (www.helpmusicians.org.uk) to design a Christmas card to help the organisation raise funds. See the story unfold as we host the complete collection of original watercolours.
Holst Birthplace Museum, 4 Clarence Road, Cheltenham GL52 2AY Tuesday 3 July - Saturday 25 August Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am-4pm (for additional opening times during the Music Festival, visit www.holstmuseum.org.uk) Tel: 01242 524846
Hugh Turvey, Artist in Residence at the British Institute of Radiology Trip The Light Fantastic Xograms
Letters, books, texts and music manuscripts showing how Gustav Holst responded in words and in music to his travels in Algiers and his fascination with Indian philosophies.
X-ray is a ‘fantastic’ light allowing us to see where we otherwise could not. And it is what is unseen and hidden that Hugh Turvey is intrigued by, making transparent what is not. These images are some of the artist’s first in an exploration of the in-between, hidden spaces in musical instruments, vital to the creation of wavelength, resonance, movement, sound. Elizabeth Jacobs Black and White Photography After her Music10 exhibition at Pittville Pump Room last year, we’re giving Parabola audiences the opportunity to enjoy Elizabeth Jacobs’ ‘access all areas’ view of Music11.
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