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Rose Hilton
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oil on canvas 91 x 102 cms 36 x 40 ins
Last year saw the highly acclaimed retrospective exhibition at Tate St. Ives, which spanned five decades of Rose Hilton’s work. This year, to celebrate Andrew Lambirth’s new book on the life and work of Rose Hilton, Messum’s will be holding a major exhibition at their Cork Street gallery from Wednesday 3rd – Saturday 20th June.
Rose Hilton: New Paintings For advance information on works available and to pre-order the book register your interest on www.messums.com
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Contents Features 14 18 22 26
Reading Between the Lines: The Art of Patrick Caulfield by Simon Martin Contemporary Eye by Frances Guy and Artwise Bawden, Nash, Ravilious and the Curwen Press by Dr Alan Powers A Tale of Two Cities by Marc Steene
Friends 34 35 36
Chairman of the Friends' Letter Friends' News Friends' Events
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Front Cover and Top Patrick Caulfield, Coloured Still Life, 1967, Acrylic on board, Pallant House Gallery (Wilson Loan), Š The Estate of Patrick Caulfield Middle WOKmedia, A New Breed, 2006, Installation in Porcelain, Various dimensions, Commissioned by Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai Bottom Paul Nash, Wittenham, 1935, Watercolour on paper, Pallant House Gallery (Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council, 1985) Š Tate, London 2009
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Director's Letter What's On: Exhibitions Collection News Gallery News Book Reviews What's On Guide Pallant Photos Artwork of the Month
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Director's Letter Stefan van Raay
During these challenging economic times, it lifts the spirits to host a show such as 'Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines' here at Pallant House Gallery. This exhibition, unlike previous Caulfield shows, focuses on the artist's unique working methods and techniques, placing rarely-seen working drawings alongside Caulfield's iconic paintings of interiors and still life subjects. Together with his bold screenprints and studies for murals, tapestries and other projects, these works will present a new view of Caulfield's artistic creativity. Amongst the permanent Collection this season you may well find yourself stumbling across works by artists such as James Turrell (Room 15), Langlands & Bell and Angela Bulloch (Room 5) and Sarah Lucas (Room 17) in an innovative project entitled 'Contemporary Eye'. Organised by the creative team of London-based curators Artwise in collaboration with the Gallery, the series of contemporary works have been specifically chosen by their collector-owners to purposefully interrupt and complement the Collection and inspire new readings of familiar works. The landmark piece, which no visitor will fail to notice, is the new stairwell installation by the Chinese collective WOKmedia: a contemporary take on a very traditional craft.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those who continue to support the Gallery at a time when this is much needed. I am delighted to announce that De'Longhi have joined the Gallery as the headline sponsor for 2009. This year, visitors will be able to enjoy free exhibitions in The De'Longhi Print Room on the ground floor, which this season includes a show rooted firmly in the Gallery's Collection: 'Bawden, Nash, Ravilious and the British Landscape', which promises to be much loved. Further, I am most grateful to the Friends for their support of the Patrick Caulfield exhibition, the forthcoming autumn exhibition 'Henry Moore Textiles' and the new audio archive recording of the Friends and Gallery lectures. Finally, I would like to extend my thanks to those who choose to give their support through advertising in this publication. Advertising enables Pallant House Gallery to produce a magazine to communicate with our loyal supporters, Friends, Patrons, and the wider community, and show all that Pallant House Gallery offers and contributes to the city, the region and the country. Last, but not least, do please tell your family and friends about the Gallery; word of mouth is one of the most important reasons that people visit us.
Patrick Caulfield, Landscape with Birds, 1963, Gloss paint on hardboard, Pallant House Gallery (Wilson Gift through The Art Fund), Š The Estate of Patrick Caulfield
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Serious About Art De'Longhi Headline Sponsor of the Gallery 2009
De'Longhi is a leader in stylish and premium household appliances, infusing innovation into all its kitchen, heating and air treatment products. In addition to its range of household appliances, De'Longhi also creates a range of premium, design led Bean-to-Cup coffee machines, including its flagship machine PrimaDonna, which is available for use at Pallant House Gallery during key events. For the past two years De'Longhi has hosted the Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction, which has raised over ÂŁ200,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Last year's event attracted works from well known artists including, Sir Peter Blake, Damien Hirst, Mary McCartney, Alison Jackson, Gavin Turk and Norman Ackroyd just to name a few.
In 2009 De'Longhi is extending its links with the art world through its sponsorship of Pallant House Gallery. De'Longhi and Pallant House Gallery will work in partnership to raise the profile of the gallery through stand-alone activities, to promote the gallery and gain media coverage around exhibitions, events and selected artists. In addition, De'Longhi will have a presence at several Pallant House Gallery events throughout the year, and is the sponsor of the De'Longhi Print Room for 2009, which will feature a variety of exciting exhibitions. An Italian brand, with its UK headquarters based in Havant, De'Longhi is excited to be working with Pallant House Gallery and the surrounding community in the coming year. For more information about De'Longhi please visit www.seriousaboutcoffee.co.uk
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Sculptors’ Prints In conjunction with Impress 09 National Printmaking Festival
XX Monoprint - William Tucker
2nd March - 28th March
Gallery Pangolin Chalford - Gloucestershire - GL6 8NT 00 44 (0)1453886527 gallery@pangolin-editions.com www.gallery-pangolin.com
What's On Main Galleries < Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines 28 March–14 June 2009 An important survey of work by Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005) focussing on his distinctive working methods and techniques, and featuring rarely-seen working drawings alongside the iconic and witty paintings of interiors and still life subjects. Together with his bold screenprints and studies for murals, tapestries and other projects, this exhibition presents a new view of Caulfield’s artistic creativity. Patrick Caulfield, Weekend Cabin, 1967 (screenprint), Private Collection/ © Alan Cristea Gallery, London/ The Bridgeman Art Library
< Contemporary Eye: Material Matters May–September 2009 Showing key pieces from major private collections, this project introduces contemporary works into the Pallant House Gallery collections for a limited time. Work by James Turrell (Rooms 15), Langlands & Bell and Angela Bulloch (Room 5), WOKmedia in the stairwell and Sarah Lucas (Room 17) will interrupt the permanent displays and spaces at Pallant House Gallery to create a new dialogue with the familiar. Angus Fairhurst, Posters/Screen, Body and Text Removed 2004, collaged posters, MDF, mirrored acrylic, Private Collection, © The Estate of Angus Fairhurst; courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.
> Hussey’s 100 May onwards Celebrating the centenary of the birth of Walter Hussey, the Dean of Chichester Cathedral from 1955 to 1977. An extraordinary patron of art and music, private collector, and founder of Pallant House Gallery. Including works by Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Duncan Grant, Rembrandt and Picasso. Graham Sutherland, Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen (Noli Me Tangere), 1961, Oil on canvas, Pallant House Gallery (Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council, 1985)
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Modern British Art: The First 100 Years Ongoing/Permanent Pallant House Gallery holds one of the best collections of 20th century British art in the world, including important works by Andrews, Auerbach, Blake, Bomberg, Caulfield, Freud, Hamilton, Hodgkin, Nicholson, Moore, Paolozzi, Piper, Sickert and Sutherland, shown throughout fourteen gallery spaces including the original, grade one listed Queen Anne townhouse. Ivon Hitchens, Flowers, 1942, Oil on canvas, Pallant House Gallery (Mrs Diana King Bequest presented through The Art Fund, 2003), © Estate of Artist
What's On The De'Longhi Print Room and Studio Studio Exhibitions Lillian French 3 March–30 March 2009 An exhibition of illustrations and text for Lillian French's book 'Visitors from Kado', a epic fantasy story featuring travellers from distant galaxies.
Katy Dove, Mirador, Screenprint, © The Artist
The De'Longhi Print Room Bawden, Nash, Ravilious and the British Landscape 10 March–31 May 2009 The landscape of Britain was a huge source of inspiration for Paul Nash, Edward Bawden, and Eric Ravilious, who studied together at the Royal College of Art in the early 1920s. This display presents the Gallery’s collection of their woodcut prints, etchings and watercolours form the 1920s to 1960s, together with works by contemporaries John Nash and Ethelbert White.
The De'Longhi Print Room From Blackadder to Borland: Scottish Women Printmakers 2 June–2 August 2009 Exploring the rich creativity of contemporary Scottish printmakers, this Print Room show focuses on work by the key female artists who have contributed to the artistic output of the Scottish Printmaking Studios, including Barbara Rae, Anya Gallacio, Elizabeth Blackadder, Christine Borland and Moyna Flannigan.
Forthcoming Exhibitions Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection 27 June–1 November 2009 Outside In: Biennial Competition 1 August–8 November 2009 Henry Moore Textiles 14 November 2009–21 February 2010
Hans Feibusch Club: Work in Progress 2–12 April 2009 An evolving exhibition of work produced in response to the Patrick Caulfield exhibition. Gary Williams: Ceilings 14–27 April 2009 Gary William's produces an ever changing series of ceiling installations in his bedroom. This exhibition includes photographs that document his work over several years St Wilfred's Hospice 29 April–24 May 2009 A fund raising exhibition of art work including prize winners selected by Wayne Hemingway, Jean Jackson, Stefan van Raay and Jack Vettriano Picassiette 26 May–21 June 2009 An exhibition of photographs of the Maison Picassiette, Chartres the mosaiccovered building created by the outsider artist Raymond Isodore. 9
new exhibitions:
Š Irving Penn
A New York style gallery in Petworth
28th March Kingston Student Show 23rd May Vases by Adam Fuss and Paul Arden
Arden and Anstruther 5 Lombard Street, Petworth, West Sussex, GU28 OAG.
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Collection News < An eye for agar Following the exhibition 'Eileen Agar: An Eye for Collage', a Friend of the Gallery has supported the purchase of Agar's wood engraving 'Family Trio'. Initially made in the 1930s, Agar re-discovered the blocks in the 1980s and the engravings were re-printed in a small edition by her dealers Birch & Conran at the time of the publication of her autobiography 'A Look at My Life'. The image is very similar to the pen and ink drawing on loan to the exhibition. Eileen Agar, Family Trio (detail), 1930s/1988, wood engraving, Pallant House Gallery, Purchased with support from a Friend of the Gallery © Estate of Eileen Agar
> Artworks on tour A number of works from the Gallery's collections are on loan to national and international exhibitions this spring. The holder of the title Museum of the Year 2008, The Lightbox in Woking, has borrowed Paolozzi's maquette for 'Osaka Steel' and three prints from 'As is When' for their exhibition 'Artists in Focus: Anthony Caro & Eduardo Paolozzi' (until 19 April). Henry Moore's 'Suckling Child' and John Skeaping's 'Torso' from The 1934 Gallery are on loan to Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery (31 January–19 April) and Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (21 May–31 August) as part of 'Moore, Hepworth, Nicholson: A Nest of Gentle Artists in the 1930s'. Finally, 'Nocturne' by Barbara Hepworth will be on display in Tate St. Ives from 16 May to 20 September as part of an exhibition 'Contemporary Fine and Applied Arts 1928–2009'. Henry Moore, Suckling Child, 1930, alabaster, Pallant House Gallery (Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council,1985), Reproduced by kind permission of the Henry Moore Foundation
< Nicholson AND OTHERs Pallant House Gallery is delighted to announce the loan of two significant collections of works by Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis and others. The collections have kindly been made available to the Gallery for a minimum of three years and will be an exciting addition to the limited holdings of works by St. Ives artists. Included in the group is Ben Nicholson's 'Birch Craig, Winter', 1930, currently on tour at Tate St. Ives as part of the exhibition 'A Continuous Line: Ben Nicholson in England', and Christopher Wood's 'China Dogs in a St. Ives Window', 1926. Some of the works will be introduced to the displays in the spring and it is hoped to feature the collections in an in-focus exhibition in 2010. Ben Nicholson, Birch Craig, Winter, 1930, oil on canvas, Private Collection, © Angela Verren Taunt
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Reading Between the Lines: The Art of Patrick Caulfield Simon Martin
Curator of the exhibition, Simon Martin, introduces an iconic artist’s hidden depths, the subject of a major new exhibition this spring. Patrick Caulfield's instantly recognisable paintings and prints can seem deceptively simple, with their bold colours and banal everyday objects delineated in solid outlines. He had a remarkable ability to create artworks that appeared as if they had arrived fully formed, with their crisp lines, flat paint surfaces, and stylised imagery. The truth, of course, is never quite so straightforward. Behind the visual economy of Caulfield's paintings and prints are complex ideas, drawings and studies. The current exhibition at Pallant House Gallery presents these drawings alongside his witty and iconic paintings to provide a fascinating insight into the artist's working methods and the development of his ideas. Born in London, Caulfield (1936–2005) studied under Jack Smith at the Chelsea School of Art (1956–60) and at the Royal College of Art in the year after David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj. He came to prominence in 1964 when he was included in the now-legendary 'New Generation' exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, which was seen to mark the arrival of British Pop Art, featuring as it did artists such as Derek Boshier, Hockney, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and Bridget Riley. Although part of the 1960s Pop Art generation by default, Caulfield preferred, if anything, to see himself
as a 'formal artist' and while his use of commercial gloss house-paint in his early works could be seen as akin to Pop Art techniques, that is where the similarity ends. Avoiding blatantly contemporary imagery, Caulfield was interested in what he called 'the shock of the familiar' and in reinvigorating traditional genres from art history such as landscape, still-life and the domestic interior. Such concerns are revealed in three of the four paintings that Caulfield exhibited in the 'New Generation' show which are reunited for the present show: 'Landscape with Birds' (1963), 'Still Life with Necklace' (1964) and 'Portrait of Juan Gris' (1963). The preparatory drawings for the 'Portrait of Juan Gris' reveal that the work began as a portrait of Paul Cézanne but metamorphosed into the Spanish Cubist artist, whom Caulfield especially admired. He based the head on a photograph of Gris taken by Man Ray in 1922 which he had seen in a MOMA catalogue, and painted him with bright yellow and blue housepaint to present an optimistic image rather than the 'grey' of the artist's surname. It is a rare instance of a portrait in Caulfield's work for usually his interiors are empty of people, although the human presence is never far away. Pared-down to the essentials of the scene, they are like stage-sets with the minimum of props in order to provide the atmosphere that the viewer needs to mentally enter the drama. Perhaps for this reason he was commissioned to design the set and costumes for 'Party Game', a ballet by Michael 15
Corder performed at the Royal Opera House in 1984 and in 1995 the set and costumes for the Royal Ballet's new production of Frederick Ashton's 'Rhapsody.' From the early 1970s Caulfield painted almost exclusively in acrylic paint on canvas. He would plan his detailed paintings of interiors featuring black lines on flat coloured backgrounds carefully in advance using precise squared-up drawings, sometimes even transferring the entire composition from a fullscale felt-tip pen drawing on polythene. Caulfield's later paintings dispensed with the bold outlines altogether. He wrote of how, 'A simple description of the way I've worked is to say that having painted and drawn in a linear way, without shadow, I gradually abandoned the linear structure and began to rely much more on light and shade which is perhaps a more sculptural interpretation of my visual world.' The atmosphere of late paintings such as 'Reserved Table' (2000) and 'Terrace' (2002) is in part due to the sense of depth created through his depiction of deep, raking shadows, and the unsettling interplay between artifice and reality: photo-realist details within otherwise almost abstract compositions. 'Reserved Table' was a witty response to a seventeenth-century Dutch still-life by Willem Kalf in the National Gallery, entitled 'Still Life with the Drinking-Horn of the Saint Sebastian Archers' Guild, Lobster and Glasses' (c.1653). Singled out from its traditional setting, the beautifullyrendered lobster may no longer represent a luxurious commodity but it appears no less exotic in Caulfield's intentionally bland restaurant. Caulfield provides just enough visual information to create a palpable sense of atmosphere, leaving the viewer's mind to fill in the detail: a kind of psychological drama in paint. Printmaking was in no way a secondary pursuit and Caulfield's prints are remarkably complementary to his paintings. He created 'Ruins' (1964), the first of his many screenprints, at the Kelpra Studio in London. Caulfield worked closely with the printer Chris Prater, producing a full-colour study on board from which Prater would cut stencils for the screens. The exhibition includes one such study, 'Coloured Still Life' (1967), together with the studies for 'Lamp and Pines' (1975) and 'Terracotta Vase' (1975) which feature pencil annotations between the distinctive bold outlines. The silkscreen process, like the housepaint Caulfield had used for his early paintings, was derived from commercial processes rather than 16
traditional fine art techniques. It enabled great precision and suited his simplified compositions with their clean lines and areas of pure colours. His approach to image making and his bold and succinct visual style lent itself well to all kinds of multimedia projects: mosaics, murals, stained glass windows and tapestries. Indeed, he once spoke of how 'My attitude is in my mind, it's not to do with the materials.' Included in the exhibition are his studies for the Wellcome Institute Mural (1991), the British Library Tapestry (1993), which was based on a scene from Lawrence Sterne's novel 'Tristram Shandy', and his maquette for the doors for the Great West Organ in Portsmouth Cathedral (2001). Seen together these present a new view of Caulfield's creativity, beyond the paintings and prints for which he is so celebrated.
Exhibition Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines 28 March–14 June 2009 Talk Michael Craig-Martin and Marco Livingstone: Conversations on Caulfield Thursday 16 April, 6pm For booking details, see page 38 Friends' Curators Tour Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines Wednesday 8 April, 2.30pm For booking details, see page 36 Tour Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines Saturday 30 May, 3pm & For booking details, see page 39
Page 14 Patrick Caulfield, Evening Menu (detail), 1975, Screenprint, Private Collection/ © Alan Cristea Gallery, London/ The Bridgeman Art Library Page 17 Patrick Caulfield, Reserved Table (detail), 2000, Acrylic on canvas, Pallant House Gallery (Wilson Gift through The Art Fund), © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield
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Contemporary Eye Frances Guy and Artwise
With its unique combination of Queen Anne listed townhouse and contemporary extension, Pallant House Gallery has never been shy of mixing the old and the new. It is a theme explored in a new project this spring, introduced here by Curator Frances Guy and artwise. Artists' installations have been a feature of Pallant House Gallery since 1999, when contemporary artists were first invited to work in the Gallery through the Arts Council's 'Making Art Matter' programme. Visitors have been surprised, intrigued and often delighted by artists' response to the historic interior, from the themed displays organised by Wendy Ramshaw and her daughter Miranda Watkins to Nina Saunders' 'Autumn Flowers', the current occupant of the stairwell in Pallant House. In 2002 a county-wide project called 'Strange Partners' was instigated by Pallant House Gallery and partners which invited artists such as Andy Goldsworthy and Langlands & Bell to create site-specific works for a number of historic or unusual locations including the Gallery. The project put the region on the contemporary art map and brought many people from London and further afield to West Sussex to see the Chalk Stones and Moonlit Path and the installations in Petworth House and Pallant House.
It has always been the Gallery's intention to build on the success of 'Strange Partners' and this year sees the start of a three-year rolling programme of contemporary art in the Gallery which aims to emulate some of its achievements. 'Contemporary Eye' seeks to showcase the best of contemporary art collected by some of the most important living collectors in the UK and abroad. The series takes inspiration from the fact that Pallant House Gallery is a 'Collection of Collections', and will be curated in partnership with Artwise Curators. All three exhibitions will look at contemporary art through the eyes of the collector and each year the curatorial theme will change, however the focus on the living collector will remain central to the programme. The first of these annual exhibitions in the 'Contemporary Eye' series is entitled 'Material Matters' and will examine some of the challenges posed by contemporary art: the various mediums used to produce the work, the difficulties of exhibiting in a domestic space, and the conservation concerns of experimental materials and aging technology. From multi-media installations using light, sound or video to artworks deliberately produced from consumable materials which visibly deteriorate with time, it will address questions such as how collectors live with these works and what, if anything, should be done to preserve them. >
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Page 18 WOKmedia, A New Breed, 2006, Installation in Porcelain, Various dimensions, Commissioned by Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai Left Angela Bulloch, Daylight 4, 1990 Belisha Beacons, wire, daylight bulbs, electronic switching mechanism, Collection Lockhart Right Angus Fairhurst, Posters/Screen, Body and Text Removed 2004, collaged posters, MDF, mirrored acrylic, Private Collection, Š The Estate of Angus Fairhurst; courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.
Works by artists of international acclaim including James Turrell, Angela Bulloch, Angus Fairhurst and Sarah Lucas will be on show, each artwork kindly loaned by collectors who live with these pieces displayed on a day-to-day basis. This temporary exhibition will not only provide an interesting dialogue with the Pallant House Gallery permanent collection and spaces, but will also provide wonderful insight to the world of today's contemporary collector.
Artwise also work with corporate clients and public collections, and have recently completed several commissions for British Airways at Heathrow's Terminal 5, two of which have been nominated for a 'Design of the Year Award 2009' at the Design Museum, London.
A further part of the project will involve reinstating two installations originally created for the Strange Partners project in 2002: Langlands & Bell's 'The Ministry (Health and Education)', a wool rug designed specifically to fit the dimensions of Room 5, and Andy Goldsworthy's series of 'Hearth Stones' for the fireplaces of Rooms 2 and 8 in Pallant House, redisplayed from May to September.
Friends' Tour Contemporary Eye tour Wednesday 20 May, 2.30pm For booking details, see page 37
'Contemporary Eye' series is a collaboration between Pallant House Gallery and Artwise Curators, a Londonbased collective of curators whose exhibitions and commissions have been shown in museums such as Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Groninger Museum, Groningen; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; and the Design Museum, London.
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Exhibition Contemporary Eye: Material Matters Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;September
There will be a public tour of the Contemporary Eye later in the year. Talk The A-Z of Collecting Contemporary Art Thursday 2 July, 6pm For booking details, see page 38
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Bawden, Nash, Ravilious and the Curwen Press Dr Alan Powers
Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden were key players in the design revolution led by the legendary Curwen Press in the 1920s. A recent book by Dr Alan Powers investigates this history, an extract from which is reproduced here to coincide with the De'Longhi Print Room exhibition 'Bawden, Nash, Ravilious and the British Landscape', on display at Pallant House Gallery in Spring. 'Paul Nash . . . was possibly the single most significant, if not prolific of the artists associated with the Curwen Press. He had a positive belief in the value of artists working in the commercial sphere, for their own good and for the good of public taste. He believed that the spontaneity of the artist's touch should be retained through the industrial process, including precision of colour matching. He was thus a demanding collaborator, but found at Curwen the standards he expected. In 1932, Nash gathered some of his occasional writings as Room and Book, published by Oliver Simon's small imprint, Soncino Books, and launched with an exhibition of modern art and design at the Zwemmer Gallery. Nash made the argument in favour of the artist getting a foothold in the printing world: 'If he is able to show a knowledge of inks, papers and types, this will gain the printer's respect and slightly frighten the publisher. The artist should then have the situation in hand. To be just,
the artists often have only themselves to thank if their work is not satisfactorily produced, but not always.' Nash was a generous friend to younger artists, using his influence to help them get work at Curwen and elsewhere. Owing to his single year of teaching in the Design School of the Royal College of Art, a younger generation of artists were introduced to Curwen from the group of students that Nash later described as 'an outbreak of talent.' These were most notably Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Eric Ravilious and Enid Marx, who had already formed something of a group at the college . . . Edward Bawden's art was linear and witty, even when abstract. Pat Gilmour noted that his list of payments was twice as long as that of any other artist working for Curwen. He could make Poole Pottery come alive in a brochure in 1925 as well as designing tiles for the pottery itself. He made human figures and animals lively even if frequently un-lifelike, while he also designed typographic boarders, headpieces and other ornaments for regular use by the Curwen Press. Bawden drew with clear lines, keeping his shading strokes open enough to allow for clean printing, which also helped to give force to his images. At other times he worked with an engraver's burin directly onto copper plates, with a strong sense of controlled design, developing from the style of the French engraver Jean-Emile Laboureur who was popular in the 1920s. > 23
For his own research, Bawden designed wallpapers using linocuts, a medium that was explored by a small group of avant-garde London artists in the 1920s such as Cyril Power. Bawden's designs were illustrative but far from naturalistic, slightly reminiscent of Victorian pictorial repeat patterns seen through a modern eye. The Curwen Press put these into production by lithographic transfer, retaining the broken 'starved' inking of the hand-prints, and they were retailed (never in large numbers) through the company Modern Textiles. Later, in the 1930s, Bawden designed a further range of wallpapers of a slightly more conventional design that were a protest against the preference of design-conscious people for plain, painted walls. At the Royal College, Bawden made friends on his first day with Eric Ravilious. Both had been placed in the Design School of the College by the principle, Sir William Rothenstein, partly because he realised that their relatively modest family backgrounds would require them to make their own livings, which as Fine Art students might be more difficult. Like most students, they taught themselves, benefiting from the close proximity of the Victoria and Albert Museum, where they absorbed drawings and decoration of many periods, especially Elizabethan, with its stylised classicism, naive perspective and attention to surface detail. Ravilious found an affinity with more imaginative subject matter than Bawden, but they collaborated happily on murals for Morley College in Lambeth between 1928 and 1930. Ravilious specialised in wood engraving and was commissioned by the Golden Cockerell Press, run by the artist Robert Gibbings and one of the most enterprising of the new private presses of the 1920s, although the assumption that private press books must be printed on rough hand-made paper did not suit the delicacy of his work. Ravilious was less enthusiastic about jobbing work than Bawden, although the Curwen Press commissioned decorative ornaments from him with characteristic radial patterns like stars or sunbursts that became 'start blocks', available for use on various occasions. He made some of his most enchanting images for a 1935 Curwen Press promotional booklet for Southern Railway, Thrice Welcome, with a special pattern-paper cover to celebrate the jubilee of King George V.
For a few years, Ravilious and Bawden shared Brick House in the Essex village of Great Bardfield, while Ravilious later moved to a neighbouring village. The presence made a nucleus for a group of artists who liked the area and its bright clear light, within commuting distance from London. The fact that the Curwen Press lay on the near side of London was propitious. Harold Curwen and others connected with the press lived in Essex, and this encouraged social contracts between them that enhanced Harold Curwen's pleasure in making it feel like a family enterprise. Abridged extract from Alan Powers, Art and Print: The Curwen story (Tate Publishing, 2008) © Tate 2008. Repeated here by kind permission of author and Tate.
The De'Longhi Print Room Exhibition Bawden, Nash, Ravilious and the British Landscape 10 March–31 May 2009 Friends Talk Introduction to The De'Longhi Print Room Thursday 30 April, 11am For booking details, see page 36 Talk 'The Tang of Watercress' Bawden, Nash, Ravilious: Critics and Popular Taste Thursday 7 May, 6pm For booking details, see page 38
Page 22 Paul Nash, Poisonous Plants, from ‘For Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus’, 1932, Pochoir print on paper, Pallant House Gallery (Lucas Bequest, 1995), © Tate, London 2009 Opposite Page Front cover of Curwen Press Newsletter No. 2 (detail), December 1935, © Tate, London 2009
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Top Unique House, Little Breach, Chichester, 1980, Photograph by Anne Scicluna Bottom Picassiette, Chartres, Created by Raymond Isidore, 1938-1962
A Tale of Two Cities Marc Steene
A new exhibition of photographs of Maison Picassiette encourages Head of Learning, Marc Steene, to reflect on Chichester's lost legacy. It is interesting to note what communities choose to preserve from their local heritage, which artists, buildings and artworks they deem worthy of handing down to forthcoming generations. In the French town of Chartres, the magical Picassiette was preserved by the enlightened city councillors, a building created by Raymond Isidore, a local road sweeper and grave digger. Between 1938 and 1962, Isidore painted and covered in mosaic every surface and object in his house, from the cooking range to the sewing machine. He even turned the family shower into a unique washing experience, replacing the traditional shower head with a tea pot spout. Now, set against the completely unremarkable buildings that surround it, Picassiette glows and shimmers like a temple to some unknown religion. It seems the creative drive will find a path no matter how few resources and materials are at hand. Isidore had only pieces of pottery and the walls of his house but with these limited materials he created a unique and unforgettable building. Chichester had its own Picassiette once, the Unique House which was located on the site of the old
hospital and demolished in the 1980s. Few records exist now apart from an article that appeared in the Chichester Observer when the building was being decorated. A quote from the article gives a sense of how beautiful the building must have been: 'The fireplace is a strikingly beautiful piece of work of perfectly regular and unusual design, both as regards pattern and colour. The colouring is exquisite'. The divergent fates of these two buildings tell very different stories about society and what we choose to value and preserve, encouraging us to reflect on what artistic values informed these decisions and what messages they carry about who is, and is not an artist. Raymond Isidore was a true 'outsider' artist and would have been a perfect candidate for Outside In, a major project set up in 2007 by Pallant House Gallery, which aims to tackle the many cultural barriers that exclude artists and creative people from outside the mainstream by offering an opportunity to take part in a biennial art competition. The second Outside In exhibition will take place during August 2009. Visit www.outsidein.com to find out more. Studio Exhibition Picassiette 26 Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;21 June 2009 For details about special children and adult workshops inspired by Maison Picassiette, see pages 40â&#x20AC;&#x201C;41 27
CHRISTOPHER BAKER NEW PAINTINGS Thursday 30 April – Sunday 17 May
Moncrieff-Bray Gallery Woodruffs Farm, Woodruffs Lane, Egdean, Petworth, West Sussex, RH20 1JX Telephone 07867 978414 Email moncrieff.bray@btinternet.com www.moncrieff-bray.com
Balance by Vanessa Pooley Bronze, 2008, length 50cm
This piece is similar to ‘Flying Lessons’, but larger, and suitable for displaying outside
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Gallery News Museums and Galleries Month To mark the annual Museums and Galleries month in May, Pallant House Gallery will be holding a free day on Saturday 16 May. Please check the website for more details nearer the time. Don't miss! The newest gallery for contemporary art in Chichester, The Joy Gallery is at 18 Southgate. For more information contact: iamjoy2007@googlemail.com London Marathon After many months of running through her lunch breaks, Pallant House Gallery Curator, Frances Guy, will be taking part in her first London marathon on Sunday 26 April to raise money for Action for ME. If you would like to sponsor Frances, contact the Gallery on 01243 774557 or go to www.justgiving.com/francesguy Brighton Open Houses Pallant House Gallery Curator Frances Guy and Assistant Curator Simon Martin will be taking part in a new twist to Brighton's annual festival of Artist's open houses in May. Appropriately titled 'House', the complementary visual arts festival will feature individually curated houses. Frances Guy will be curating a 'house' at Wellington House in Brighton as part of the 'Outside In' biennial project (www.outsidein.org.uk) and Simon Martin will be on the panel of selectors alongside Turner Prize winning artist Anish Kapoor. For more information visit www.aoh.org.uk
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Skills sharing The Schools Programme has received funding to run an 'Introduction to Arts Management' course which will outline how the Gallery works, the different roles within it and how to curate an exhibition. The course will be for students at secondary schools in West Sussex. To find out more please contact the Head of Learning, Marc Steene m.steene@pallant.org.uk
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Pillow, Oil on canvas
RICHARD DAVIDSON Studio visits welcome. Please call in advance on 01798 867 232 Also available through the Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel Brookdene House, Graffham, Petworth, GU28 0NL richard.davidson@btinternet.com www.richarddavidson.co.uk
Gallery News > The Hussey Memorial Commission The Chapter of Chichester Cathedral will mark the centenary of Walter Hussey's birth on 15 May 2009 with the launch of a Hussey Memorial Commission. A major new artwork representing the resurrected Christ is to be hung above the Arundel Screen (at the front of the nave). The artist will be chosen through an invited competition, with the shortlisted proposals exhibited in the Cathedral. Funding for marginalised artists Pallant House Gallery has received a grant to fund the training of four marginalised artists to lead workshops and become part of the Gallery's artist educator's team. The grant will also pay for a research project into the work of outsider and marginalised artists represented in the collections, their impact and the terminology used to describe them. The research will be used to create a workshop pack and an exhibition.
Graham Sutherland, Portrait of Walter Hussey, 1965, Oil on canvas, Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council (1985)
Romano-British and medieval occupation at Pallant House Gallery A new journal published by Sussex Archaeological Society has included the important findings by Wessex Archaeology discovered between March and April 2003 in the excavations for the new wing at Pallant House Gallery, including most notably, a medieval ceramic roof finial.
Justin Edgar, 'Special People', 2007 Š Justin Edgar/ Guerilla Films
New 'Partners in Art' documentary Award-winning film maker, Justin Edgar, has been commissioned to create a documentary film about the 'Partners in Art' project at Pallant House Gallery. Due to premiere in August, the film will focus on three partnerships and explore the impact of the scheme on the participant's lives. Edgar's acclaimed feature film, 'Special People', developed from his award-winning short film, is currently on general release in cinemas across the UK.
Christopher Baker Moncrieff-Bray Gallery in Pulborough is to host the first major exhibition of the artist Christopher Baker in Sussex, since his solo show at Pallant House Gallery in 1999. 'Land, Sky, Water' (30 Aprilâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;17 May), features a recent series of paintings inspired by two very different venues, Climping Beach in Sussex and Venice.
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Bookshop Reviews
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Recommended Reads from the Bookshop Cyril Power Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue By Philip Vann (Lund Humphreys in association with Osborne Samuel) £25.00 New Publication Barbara Rae With texts by Gareth Wardell, Andrew Lambirth and Bill Hare (Lund Humphreys) £35.00
Betty Swanwick: Artist & Visionary By Paddy Rossmore (London: Chris Beetles Ltd, 2008) £30.00
Art and Print: The Curwen Story By Alan Powers (London: Tate, 2008) £14.99
Betty Swanwick described herself as 'part of a small tradition of English painting that is a bit eccentric, a little odd and a little visionary.' Swanwick's paintings, drawings and illustrations combine pastoral and mythical imagery to create imaginative visions of people and animals. Reminiscent of William Blake and Samuel Palmer, Swanwick's art transcends the ordinary to reveal a magical, dreamlike world. This recent publication offers an overview of her captivating work and its significance to modern British art. Megan Mikel
The Curwen Press became famous early in the twentieth century for its high quality limited edition books featuring end papers designed by leading British artists such as Edward Bawden, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer. From the 1950s onwards the Press increasingly gave support to printmakers and set up the Curwen Studio to explore and develop printmaking techniques, where artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Paula Rego have since created significant prints. Art and Print details the fascinating legacy of the Curwen Press within British art and design history. Megan Mikel
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John Hoyland By Mel Gooding (Thames & Hudson) RRP £39.95 Special bookshop price of £19.95 New Publication Lucian Freud on Paper By Sebastian Smee (Jonathan Cape) £50.00 Teaching Through Contemporary Art. A Report on Innovative Practices in the Classroom By (eds) Jeff Adams, Kelly Worwood, Dennis Atkinson, Paul Dash, SteveHerne, Tara Page Tate Publishing £14.99
Library Reviews
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Recommended Reads from the Art Library Eric Ravilious, Submarine Dream, Lithographs and Letters* Edited by Brian Webb with an introduction by Peyton Skipwith * Special Collection Item – Prearranged viewing suggested The Wood Engravings of Paul Nash A catalogue of wood-engravings, pattern papers, etchings and an engraving on copper. Compiled by Jeremy Greenwood
Patrick Caulfield Paintings Marco Livingstone (Lund Humphries, 2005) £25.00 Patrick Caulfield, who died in 2005, established his reputation in the 1960s when his use of bold outlines and flat, vivid colour led to him being associated with Pop Art, a label he rejected, preferring to describe himself as a 'formal' artist. The only major monograph to be published on Caulfield's paintings, this is essentially a compendium of Livingstone's substantial and intuitive writings on the artist together with new essays and a comprehensive chronology by Richard Riley. Illustrating over 150 works, it reproduces, almost in entirety, Caulfield's paintings since 1961, often with preliminary drawings and studies. The deceptive simplicity of his forms belies the complexity and subtlety of a visual language that is both familiar and ambiguous. This beautifully and lavishly designed book reveals the richness and depth of Caulfield's work and celebrates a consummate draughtsman and outstanding colourist.
Following Petra, a Celebration of Seventy Years of the Contemporary Art Society for Wales A celebration of Welsh art and significant artists working in Wales. Edited and introduced by Tony Curtis. Twentieth Century Textiles Sue Kerry In depth account of twentieth century textiles examining their design, manufacture, marketing and use. Sebastião Salgado, Africa Mia Couto Breathtakingly beautiful photographs of the people, landscape and flora and fauna of the African continent and unflinching documentary of the catastrophic events that have overshadowed it.
Sarah Norris
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Chairman of the Friends' Letter Lady Nicholas Gordon Lennox Tickets 01243 770816
Voewood House, Norfolk, Š Voewood House
DEAR FRIENDS Those of you who attended the AGM, and the Special General Meeting which followed, will recall that it was agreed we should change our name to 'The Friends of Pallant House Gallery'. It was felt that since the opening of the new Gallery, this was an altogether more appropriate name. I am delighted to announce a new benefit of Friends' membership. In future, a Private View exclusively for the Friends will be held on the first Sunday morning of the exhibition before opening to the general public later that day. This will follow the normal Friday evening preview for lenders, contributors and sponsors of the exhibition. Another recent innovation has been a stronger focus on the development of our Student Friend audiences for our events and exhibitions. There are a number of colleges in the Chichester area with successful art faculties and we hope that they will make full use of the Gallery and become our next generation of Friends and supporters. I would like to remind you about the trip to Norfolk, planned for 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 July to coincide with the opening of the Salthouse 09 exhibition, 'Salt of the Earth' which is being curated by our own Assistant Curator Simon Martin. The Friends will stay in Blakeney, and, in addition to seeing the Salthouse Exhibition, will visit the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, Voewood House and Blickling Hall.
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Many of you will remember the wonderful concerts held in the Gallery during the Eye Music exhibition in 2007. These were extremely popular and we have it in mind to plan more musical events, details of which we hope to be able to publish in our next magazine. The very generous support we receive from our Friends is of vital importance to us, and I want to thank you all very much indeed. This year, the following exhibitions have been chosen as interesting Gallery events to be supported by the Friends: the spring exhibition, 'Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines', and the autumn exhibition 'Henry Moore: Textiles'. The Friends are also sponsoring a new audio archive to record the Friends and Gallery lectures which will be housed in the library. In the current financial climate we are going to have to work extremely hard to ensure the Gallery gets this support from us and we will be announcing a number of fund raising events which I hope will be enjoyable and interesting for everybody.
Lady Nicholas Gordon Lennox
Friends' News GIFT AID - A FREE GIFT FROM THE TAX MAN Gift Aid is a gift from the Chancellor of the Exchequer and gifts don’t come rarer than that! So, if you have not yet signed up for Gift Aid, please do so. We can collect Gift Aid on both subscriptions and donations. Despite tax changes, we still get 28p from the Inland Revenue for every £ you give us. That means that a single subscription of £30 is worth over £8 extra to us without costing you a penny. It all adds up, last year we collected over £8,000 through Gift Aid. However you must pay an amount of Income and/or Capital Gains Tax at least equal to the tax that we reclaim in the appropriate tax year (currently 28p for each £1 you give). If you would like a Gift Aid Form, please contact the Friends Office. Similarly should your circumstances change, or you no longer wish to Gift Aid your subscriptions or donations, please let us know.
PRIVATE VIEWS This spring we introduce a new Friends’ benefit - our own Private View of each major new exhibition. The Friends Private Views will take place on the first Sunday morning after the opening of the exhibition between 11am and 12.30pm. Forthcoming Friends’ Private View dates are as follows: Sunday 29 March - Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines Sunday 28 June - Scottish Colourists: Paintings from the Fleming Collection
SUBSCRIPTION INCREASE Subscriptions to the Friends have gone up, as agreed at the last AGM. It will be the first increase since July 2006 and, as we are sure you will appreciate, in that time costs have risen significantly. The non-member admission rate to the Gallery has also increased in that time. Financial support from the Friends is vital for the long-term well-being of the Gallery. As the Friends’ organisation is primarily run by volunteers we are able to keep costs down to a minimum, thus ensuring that your subscriptions go almost entirely to supporting the Gallery. For the new annual rates contact the Friends on 01243 770815. Life Members are not affected.
Patrick Caulfield, Evening Menu, 1975, screenprint, Private Collection/ © Alan Cristea Gallery, London/ The Bridgeman Art Library
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What's On Friends' Events
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Introduction to The Print Room Thursday 30 April, 11am A rare opportunity to look at a range of drawings, etchings, lithographs and watercolours by artists including Picasso, Auerbach and Klee, and the ways these works are stored and conserved with Assistant Curator, Simon Martin. £5 (£2.50 students) includes De'Longhi coffee and biscuits
The Collector Earl's Garden, Arundel Castle, © Arundel Castle Trustees Ltd
Patrick Caulfield: A Friends' Private View Sunday 29 March, 11am A special opportunity to be among the first to see the new Patrick Caulfield exhibition, as the Gallery opens exclusively to Friends before the doors are opened to the public. Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines Curator's Tour Wednesday 8 April, 2.30pm An exploration of the ideas and working methods behind Caulfield’s bold and witty paintings, prints, and other projects with Assistant Curator, Simon Martin. £5 (£2.50 students) includes tea
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The Collector Earl's Garden, Arundel Castle and Wepham House, Wepham Tuesday 28 April, 10am–4.30pm The visit will begin at the new formal garden at Arundel Castle, a tribute to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel (1585–1646), before moving to Wepham House where John Knight will show us selected pieces from his collection of paintings by the 19th century landscape painter John William Buxton Knight (1843–1908). This informal exhibition is being organised for the Friends in memory of John's wife, Wendy Knight. £25 includes transport, admission to the Earl's garden and coffee, and tea at Wepham. Pub lunch not included.
Walter Hussey Centenary Tour Friday 8 May, 2.30pm A special Gallery tour marking the centenary of the birth of Walter Hussey, Dean of Chichester Cathedral, focussing on the artworks he commissioned and collected by artists such as Piper, Moore, Sutherland, and Ceri Richards. Led by Jennifer-Lynn Dicks, Volunteer Guide £5 (£2.50 students) Friends' Coffee Morning Wednesday 13 May, 10.30am–12pm An opportunity to hear Chichesterbased artist Catherine Barnes, who assisted with the printing of Richard Hamilton's 'Swingeing London' at the Kelpra Studio in London, talking about her work. £4 includes De'Longhi coffee and biscuits
What's On Friends' Events
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Contemporary Eye Curators Tour Wednesday 20 May, 2.30pm Curator of Pallant House Gallery, Frances Guy, introduces the series of contemporary commissions which make up the project 'Contemporary Eye' including works by James Turrell, Angus Fairhurst and Langlands & Bell. £5 (£2.50 Students) includes tea Farley Farm House Wednesday 27 May, 12.45–5pm Farley Farm House was home for 35 years to the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose and his wife, the fashion model, photographer and muse, Lee Miller (whose portraits of artists from Picasso to Man Ray are on show at the Gallery until 29 March, alongside the works she received in exchange). The visit will include a special threehour tour of the house led by Lee Miller's son, Antony Penrose, and the opportunity to explore the sculpture garden designed by Roland Penrose and the Farley Farm House shop. £45 includes transport and admission to Farley Farm House. Have an early lunch beforehand or bring sandwiches to eat on the coach.
Farley Farm House Tour, © Lee Miller Archives
Denham Gardens, Fontwell, © Denham Gardens
Denmans Garden, Fontwell and Sherburne House, Eartham Wednesday 17 June, 10.30am–5pm Denmans is the beautiful four acre garden home of the landscape designer and writer, John Brookes mbe. We shall have a guided tour of the site and lunch in the awardwinning, Garden Café before visiting Sherburne House at Eartham, home of Angus Hewat, a trustee and, until recently, Vice Chairman of the Friends of Pallant House Gallery, and his wife, Anne, a guide and long-serving member of the Friends' Working Group. We shall have an opportunity to see their garden and picture collection, and have tea. £20 includes transport, admission to Denmans Garden and tea. Choose and pay for your own lunch at the Garden Café.
North Norfolk Coast Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 4 July The focal point of this trip is Salthouse '09, an annual exhibition mounted by the North Norfolk Exhibition Project in Salthouse Church, curated this year by Pallant House Gallery's Simon Martin who will be giving us a special tour. Other highlights include the Henry Moore Foundation at Bishops Stortford, Voewood House, one of the great houses of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich and Blickling Hall. We will be staying at the three-star Blakeney Hotel which has excellent facilities including a swimming pool. £385 includes all transport and half-board in standard ccommodation. It does not include lunches, any alcoholic drinks consumed at dinner other than a 'welcome drink' on the first night, and entrance fees where applicable. Friends of Pallant House Gallery
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What's On Talks & Events
Talks
Michael Craig-Martin and Marco Livingstone: Conversations on Caulfield Thursday 16 April, 6pm An opportunity to hear the celebrated contemporary artist Michael Craig-Martin RA discuss the work of Patrick Caulfield with the author of the recent major monograph of Caulfield's paintings, Marco Livingstone. £12 (£10.25 Students, £8.25 Friends) includes admission and a glass of wine. There will be a book signing after the event. 'The Tang of Watercress' Bawden, Nash, Ravilious: Critics and popular taste Thursday 7 May, 6pm Dr Alan Powers, a leading author in the field of British twentieth-century design, will consider the contrasting critical responses to this trio of artists and the split between academic 'ratings' and popular taste. £10 (£8.25 Students, £6.25 Friends) includes admission and a glass of wine 38
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The A-Z of Collecting Contemporary Art Thursday 2 July, 6pm An introduction to collecting contemporary art by Founding Director of Artwise, Susie Allen, and Artwise Curator, Deana Vanagan. £10 (£8.25 Students, £6.25 Friends) includes admission and a glass of wine
Booksigning Peter Blake: One Man Show Saturday 6 June, 12.30am & 2.30pm The acclaimed Father of British Pop art will be signing copies of his latest book at Pallant House Gallery. Order your copy in advance on 01243 770813.
Performance Still Life Thursday 26 March (5.30pm, 6.30pm & 7.30pm) Thursday 2 April (5.30pm, 6.30pm & 7.30pm) Saturday 4 April (11am, 12pm & 3pm) Etch Dance Company presents Still Life, a dance installation which illuminates the art in everyday life. Drawing inspiration from Pallant House Gallery, Still Life uses a collage of live dance and film in order to take a playful look at the transient nature of human action and the permanence of art. Etch Dance is an undergraduate student company based at Chichester College.
Top Michael Craig-Martin, M, 2007, From: Alphabet Screenprints, Dimensions variable, Edition of 40, Courtesy of Alan Cristea, © Michael Craig-Martin Bottom Photograph of Still Life Performance, Courtesy of Helen Rust, © Helen Rust
What's On Tours
Exhibition Tours
Tickets 01243 774557 Booking Required
Thursday Evening Themed Tours Every Thursday at 6pm Free with Gallery admission Please meet at reception No booking required
Last Wednesday of the month Free with Gallery admission Please meet at reception No booking required
Landscapes and Modernity 19 March / 7 May /25 June
'L'Echaffaudage' (The Scaffolding) by Jean Metzinger Wednesday 25 March, 12pm
Still Life: The Language of Objects 26 March / 14 May / 2 July Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines Saturday 30 May, 3pm A chance to explore the ideas and fascinating working methods behind Caulfield's bold and witty paintings, prints, and other projects with Assistant Curator, Simon Martin. £8 (£4.50 students) includes admission Walter Hussey Centenary Tour Friday 15 May, 2.30pm A special tour marking the centenary of Walter Hussey, former Dean of Chichester Cathedral, focussing on the artworks he commissioned and collected by artists such as Piper, Moore, Sutherland, and Ceri Richards. Led by Margaret Brown, Volunteer Guide. £8 (£4.50 Students) includes admission
Patrick Caulfield, Still Life Ingredients, 1976, screenprint, Private Collection/ © Alan Cristea Gallery, London/ The Bridgeman Art Library
Artwork of the Month Talks
The Eighteenth Century House: Fine Arts and Furnishings 2 April / 21 May / 8 July Pop Art and the Swinging Sixties 9 April / 28 May / 16 July
'Hearth Stone' by Andy Goldsworthy Wednesday 29 April, 12pm 'Portrait of Walter Hussey' by Graham Sutherland Wednesday 27 May, 12pm 'Portrait of Gerda Boehm' by Frank Auerbach Wednesday 24 June, 12pm
Collectors and Collecting 16 April / 4 June Portraits: Image and Identity 12 March / 23 April / 11 June Creative Liaisons 30 April / 18 June
Collection Highlights Tours Every Saturday morning at 11am Free with admission Please meet at reception No booking required
Schools Events Patrick Caulfield Curator's Tour for Teachers Thursday 2 April, 4.30– 6.30pm Please book your place in advance on 01243 770839 or learning@pallant.org.uk 39
What's On Adult/Student Workshops
Artwork of the Month Workshops Cost: £6 per person (plus a £3.50 model charge, where applicable) 'L'Echaffaudage' (The Scaffolding) byJean Metzinger Wednesday 25 March, 1–3pm Explore the shapes and qualities of this work and use relief printing to create a building-based print. Bring images, photographs or drawings of buildings or buildings under construction for inspiration. 'Hearth Stone' by Andy Goldsworthy Wednesday 29 April, 1–3pm Explore the materials of 'Hearth Stone' and the ideas suggested by its installation Bring mark-making materials and implements, e.g. lumps of chalk, clay, charcoal & good quality paper. 'Portrait of Walter Hussey' by Graham Sutherland Wednesday 27 May, 1–3pm Explore the techniques and approach to portraiture developed by the artist Graham Sutherland. Bring materials of your choice plus good quality paper. 'Portrait of Gerda Boehm' by Frank Auerbach Wednesday 24 June, 1–3pm Explore texture in paint using a variety of materials. Bring oil, acrylic, poster paints or inks. Good quality paper or a primed board or canvas. 40
Sunday Art Classes Workshops based on the Collection and led by professional artists. Cost: £9 per person (plus a £3.50 model charge where applicable). Life Drawing Sunday 29 March, 1–4pm Using paint, work in a style of one artwork from the Collection. Bring your own paper and paints. Life Drawing Sunday 26 April, 1–4pm Life drawing with reference to the bold style of Patrick Caulfield. Bring sketchbooks, A2 or A3 specialist papers and a range of drawing materials of your choice. Life Drawing Sunday 17 May, 1–4pm A great opportunity to experiment with the use of colour in life drawing. Bring colours - wet or dry media, drawing pencils and A1/A2 sheets of paper (good quality white cartridge). Life Drawing Sunday 14 June, 1–4pm A class that will focus on exploring the use of contour lines in life drawing. Bring a range of drawing pencils, pens and good quality, white cartridge paper.
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Special Workshops Still Life Performance Workshop Saturday 4 April, 2-3pm Hone your skills in a workshop at Pallant House Gallery then join in with a performance at the Gallery from 3-3.30pm. Free Picassiette Mosaic Workshop Sunday 7 June, 12.45–4.45pm Be inspired by the magical mosaics of Raymond Isidore in a workshop run by Budd Mosaics, the oldest mosaic company in England. You will be working with Venetian glass mosaic, ceramics, marble and gold mosaic. £20 (includes all materials)
Community Programme To find out more about the Community Programme please contact the Head of Learning, Marc Steene. Hans Feibusch Club Thursdays, 2.30-4.30pm Free art workshops for Partners in Art and other community groups and individuals that require extra support. Introduction to Art at Pallant House Gallery A ten week course for people with learning disabilities that encourages a person centred approach to creativity.
What's On Children's Workshops
Children's Saturday Workshops Themed workshops inspired by the Gallery's exhibitions and the Collection Cost: £6 per child Frames: Inside/ Outside Saturday 28 March, 10am–12pm Knock! Knock! Who or what's there? Take a look through John Armstrong's 'The Open Door' and make pictures that have windows, doors or fun frames. Ages 5-10 Colour Your World Saturday 25 April, 10am–12pm See the world in wonderful colour through the eyes of artist Patrick Caulfield. Draw with bold outlines and use brightly coloured paper and collage to create a picture of your bedroom or of your favourite objects. Ages 5–10 Through Rose-Tinted Spectacles Saturday 9 May, 10am–12pm Transform an everyday scene. Working with blocks of colour and textured or patterned paper, create a bold, new image inspired by the artist Patrick Caulfield. Ages 11–14
Special Workshop Picassiette Mosaic Workshop Saturday 6 June, 10am –3pm (with break 12–1pm) Be inspired by the magical mosaics of Raymond Isidore displayed in the
Picassiette Exhibition in the Studio and make your own artwork. The workshop will be run by Budd Mosaics, the oldest mosaic company in England. You will be working with Venetian glass mosaic, ceramics, marble and gold mosaic. £20 (includes all materials) Ages 11–16
FREE Holiday Workshops Free hands-on art workshops for young artists. Weaving Springtime Tuesday 7 April, 10am–12pm & repeated 1–3pm Create a beautiful, woven piece of art using paper and Easter/ springtime- themed objects with artist Jane Moran. Bring some small, light-weight objects to weave into your artwork. Free, Ages 5–16 Dressing up the Past Wednesday 15 April, 10am– 12pm & repeated 1–3pm Looking at the depiction of people in paintings and on porcelain in the collection, we’ll make 2ft tall, flat, standing figures from cardboard and cloth them in historical costume and then decorate them with collage materials. Free, Ages 5–16 A New Perspective Tuesday 26 May, 10am–12pm & repeated 1–3pm
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Try out some simple stencilling techniques using everyday objects, and the strong, graphic style of artist Patrick Caulfield for inspiration. Free, Ages 5–16
FREE Workshops for Young Artists 13+ Reinvent Your Image! An exciting, collaborative art project aimed at young artists. You will be introduced to new techniques and shown how to develop ideas to enable you to experiment and explore your own creativity and identity through mixed-media. Come to all three workshops or join us for just one. Free, Ages 13+ Part 1 Saturday16 May, 10am–12pm Looking at different parts of your face, body or favourite fashion items, explore how to change your image using exciting and experimental processes. Part 2 Saturday 13 June, 10am–12pm Collaborate to make life masks that can be painted, collaged and photographed to create a unique piece of work. Part 3 Saturday 20 June, 10am–12pm Use photographs of yourself as a starting point to develop ideas about distortion and manipulation in order to reinvent your image. 41
What's On Calendar Key Friends Events Gallery Events, Talks and Performances Tours Art Classes and Workshops March Thurs 12 Thurs 12 Sat 14 Thurs 19 Thurs 19 Thurs 19 Sat 21 Weds 25 Weds 25 Thurs 26 Thurs 26 Thurs 26 Sat 28 Sat 28 Sun 29 Sun 29
2.30–4.30pm Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club 6pm Collection Tour - Portraits: Image & Identity 11am Collection Tour - Highlights 2.30–4.30pm Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club 6pm Collection Tour - Landscapes and Modernity 6pm Talk - Antony Penrose: Lee Miller 11am Collection Tour - Highlights 12pm Talk - Artwork of the Month 1–3pm Adult Workshop - Artwork of the Month 2.30–4.30pm Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club 5.30, 6.30, 7.30pm Performance - Still Life 6pm Collection Tour - Still Life: Language of Objects 10am - 12pm Children's Workshop - Frames Inside/Outside 11am Collection Tour - Highlights 11am–12.30pm Friends' Private View - Patrick Caulfield 1–4pm Adult Art Class - Life Drawing
April Thurs 2 Thurs 2 Thurs 2 Thurs 2 Sat 4 Sat 4 Sat 4 Tues 7 Weds 8 Thurs 9 Thurs 9 Sat 11 Weds 15 Thurs 16 Thurs 16 Thurs 16 Sat 18 Thurs 23 Thurs 23 Sat 25 Sat 25 Sun 26 Tues 28 Weds 29 Weds 29 Thurs 30 Thurs 30 Thurs 30
2.30–4.30pm Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club 4.30– 6.30pm Curator's Tour for Teachers - Patrick Caulfield 5.30, 6.30, 7.30pm Performance - Still Life 6pm Collection Tour - C18th House 11am Free Collection Tour - Highlights 2–3pm Dance Workshop - Still Life 11am, 12pm, 3pm Performance - Still Life 10am–12pm Children's Workshop - Weaving Springtime & 1–3pm Children's Workshop - Weaving Springtime 2.30pm Friends' Curator's Tour - Patrick Caulfield 2.30–4.30pm Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club 6pm Collection Tour - Pop Art and the Swinging '60s 11am Free Collection Tour - Highlights 10am–12pm Children's Workshop - Dressing up the Past & 1–3pm Children's Workshop - Dressing up the Past 2.30–4.30pm Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club 6pm Collection Tour - Collectors and Collecting 6pm Talk - Michael Craig - Martin on Caulfield 11am Free Collection Tour - Highlights 2.30–4.30pm Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club 6pm Collection Tour - Portraits: Image & Identity 10am–12pm Children's Workshop - Colour Your World 11am Collection Tour - Highlights 1–4pm Adult Art Class - Life Drawing 10am–4.30pm Friends' Visit - Arundel Castle & Wepham House 12pm Talk - Artwork of the Month 1–3pm Adult Workshop - Artwork of the Month 11am Friends' Talk - Introduction to Print Room 2.30–4.30pm Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club 6pm Collection Tour - Creative Liaisons
May Sat 2 Thurs 7 Thurs 7 Thurs 7 Fri 8 Sat 9 Sat 9 Weds 13 Thurs 14 Thurs 14 Fri 15 Sat 16 Sat 16 Sat 16 Sun 17 Weds 20 Thurs 21 Thurs 21 Sat 23 Tues 26 Weds 27 Weds 27 Weds 27 Thurs 28 Thurs 28 Sat 30 Sat 30
11am 2.30–4.30pm 6pm 6pm 2.30pm 10am –12pm 11am 10.30–12pm 2.30–4.30pm 6pm 2.30pm 10am 10am –12pm 11am 1–4pm 2.30pm 2.30–4.30pm 6pm 11am 10am–12pm & 1–3pm 12.45–5pm 12pm 1–3pm 2.30–4.30pm 6pm 11am 3pm
Free Collection Tour - Highlights Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club Collection Tour - Landscapes and Modernity Talk - Alan Powers: Bawden, Nash, Ravilious Friends' Tour - Walter Hussey Centenary Young Artist's Workshop - Through Spectacles Collection Tour - Highlights Friends' Coffee Morning - Catherine Barnes Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club Collection Tour - Still Life: Language of Objects Guided Tour - Walter Hussey Centenary Tour Pallant House Gallery FREE Day Young Artist's workshop - Reinvent Your Image 1 Collection Tour - Highlights Adult Art Class - Life Drawing Friends Curator's Tour - Contemporary Eye Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club Collection Tour - C18th House Collection Tour - Highlights Children's Workshop - A New Perspective Children's Workshop - A New Perspective Friends' Visit - Farley Farmhouse Talk - Artwork of the Month Adult Workshop - Artwork of the month Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club Collection Tour - Pop Art and the Swinging '60s Collection Tour - Highlights Curator's Tour - Patrick Caulfield
June Thurs 4 Thurs 4 Sat 6 Sat 6 Sat 6 Sun 7 Mon 8 Thurs 11 Thurs 11 Sat 13 Sat 13 Sun 14 Weds 17 Thurs 18 Thurs 18 Sat 20 Sat 20 Weds 24 Weds 24 Thurs 25 Thurs 25 Sat 27 Sun 28
2.30–4.30pm 6pm 10am–3pm 11am 12.30 & 2.30pm 12.45–4.45pm 10am–7pm 2.30–4.30pm 6pm 10am–12pm 11am 1–4pm 10.30–5pm 2.30–4.30pm 6pm 10am–12pm 11am 12pm 1–3pm 2.30–4.30pm 6pm 11am 11am–12.30pm
Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club Collection Tour - Collectors and Collecting Young Artist's Workshop - Picassiette Mosaic Collection Tour - Highlights Peter Blake - Booksigning Adult Workshop - Picassiette Mosaic Rare Brand Market Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club Collection Tour - Portraits: Image & Identity Young Artist's Workshop - Reinvent Your Image 2 Collection Tour - Highlights Adult Art Class - Life Drawing Friends' - Denmans Garden, Sherburne House Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club Collection Tour - Creative Liaisons Young Artist's Workshop - Reinvent Your Image 3 Collection Tour - Highlights Talk - Artwork of the Month Adult Workshop - Artwork of the Month Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club Collection Tour - Landscapes and Modernity Collection Tour - Highlights Friends' Private View - Scottish Colourists
July Weds 1 - 4 Friends' North Norfolk Coast Visit Thurs 2 2.30–4.30pm Community Workshop - Hans Feibusch Club Thurs 2 6pm Talk - The A–Z of Collecting Thurs 2 6pm Collection Tour - Language of Objects
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Eileen Agar: An Eye for Collage Private View
The Agar Family - Cordelia Fraser, Miranda MacKintosh, Helena and Lola Fraser-Turner
Jon Adams, Artist
Albie O'Rourke with Cowboy by Jann Haworth
Richard Selby and Maggie Thornton of The Redfern Gallery
James Birch, Art Dealer
Stefan van Raay, Director of Pallant House Gallery and Gavin Turk, Artist
Andrew Lambirth, Guest Curator of Eileen Agar exhibition and Richard Gault, The Redfern Gallery 46
Up Close with Antony Gormley and the Art of Entertaining
Joanna von Schenk, Claire Manzanera and Adi Hunter Cook
Anne Hewat and Nigel Wainright, Managing Director of De'Longhi
David Hopkinson, Patron & Vice President of the Pallant House Gallery Appeal
Paddy Walker and John Ayton, Chairman of Pallant House Gallery Development Board
Howell James and Angie O'Rourke, Member of the Pallant House Gallery Development Board
Art of Entertaining: Alison van der Lande, Janet Mahoney of Field and Fork at Pallant House Gallery and Sarah Heber.
Antony Gormley, Sculptor and Vanessa Branson, Member of Pallant House Gallery Development Board
Madeleine Bessborough, Founder of New Art Centre, Roche Court
Art of Entertaining: Mr and Mrs Malin, Florence and Ben Mahoney
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Artwork of the Month Liz Walker
The 15th May 2009 marks the centenary of the birth of Walter Hussey (1909–1985), Dean of Chichester Cathedral from 1955 to 1977. Hussey was a remarkable man. At the very core of his being was the belief that the church needed to revive its role as patron of the arts by commissioning works from contemporary artists. And this he did, to enormous effect, with both St. Matthew's Northampton and Chichester Cathedral benefiting from his discerning judgement. Lord Clark described him as 'the last great patron of art in the Church of England.' His natural sympathy with artists resulted in many becoming his personal friends and giving him works of art. These he added to his existing private collection that he had begun as a young curate in London - a collection that was to be the foundation stone of Pallant House Gallery. One of those artists who received not one, but two commissions, was Graham Sutherland, who became a close personal friend. In 1960 he wrote to Hussey: "You have been such an understanding and wise patron – bringing into the world again the old relationship of patron and painter, to say nothing of offering me work." Surely, these sentiments are reflected in this portrait of Hussey. Sutherland's approach to portraiture was very individual. He liked to make a series of studies of his subject – mostly as drawings, sometimes as paintings, until he got the 48
'measure' of the sitter. It was, he said, 'paraphrasing' the essence – in order to display more vividly the inner life of the subject. He felt he had to be as 'absorbent as blotting paper and watchful as a cat'. Then, away from his subject, he would paint the portrait. This portrait is, in fact, unfinished and was given to Hussey by Sutherland's widow Kathleen after the artist's death in 1980. We shall never know whether Sutherland had planned further studies but what we do have is the essence of Walter Hussey – a visionary, a man of extraordinary determination and conviction, who believed passionately in excellence and the value of art in the Church. Liz Walker will present a Gallery talk on Sutherland's 'Portrait of Dean Walter Hussey' on Wednesday 27 May as part of the Artwork of the Month series of talks. For further details, see page 39. There will be a special room display and trail celebrating 'Hussey 100' and a celebratory mass at Chichester Cathedral on 15 May. See page 39 for details of new themed tours focussing on Walter Hussey and his collection. A CD of music commissioned by Hussey is available from the Bookshop priced £9.99. Call 01243 770813 to order your copy today. Graham Sutherland, Portrait of Dean Walter Hussey (begun 1965, unfinished), Oil on canvas, Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council, 1985, © Estate of Graham Sutherland
Girl on the phone by John Skinner
Forthcoming publication
'Drawing and Painting People' A Fresh Approach by Emily Ball Due to be published the end of February 2009. This is a book for people who are serious about painting and want to develop work that is personal and exceptional in quality. It explores an unpretentious, non-academic approach to working, with examples of processes, work and conversations with notable artists. For further information contact the Crowood Press or Emily Ball www.emilyballatseawhite.co.uk email emily@emilyball.net telephone (01903) 743537
PETER THURSBY Sculpture 1963 – 1965 21 February – 14 March
Anthony Hepworth Fine Art Dealers Ltd. 3 Margarets Buildings, Brock Street, Bath, BA1 2LP anthony.hepwor@btconnect.com www.anthonyhepworth.com 01225 447480 / 07970 480 650 Gallery opening hours during exhibition: 11am – 5 pm Illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition Peter Thursby (b.1930), Box Pipe 1, 1964, Bronze, Unique, h: 30.5cm, w: 24cm, d: 21.5cm