What's on: October 2018 — January 2019
The New Art Gallery Walsall
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Cover Image ~ Elizabeth Magill, Divide, 2016-17, oil and film on canvas, 22.5 x 31.5cm Photography by Hugo Glendinning
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Welcome To The New Art Gallery Walsall Designed by Caruso St John architects The New Art Gallery Walsall opened in February 2000 in the heart of Walsall town centre. Our renowned Garman Ryan Collection was gifted to the Borough in 1973 by Kathleen Garman, widow of the great 20th century sculptor Jacob Epstein. Kathleen was originally from nearby Wednesbury, and although she had spent much of her life in London, wanted to give something back to the Black Country where she had grown up. The Collection includes 365 important works by celebrated artists including Epstein, Van Gogh, Monet, Constable, Picasso, Degas, Matisse and Lucian Freud, alongside a wide range of artworks from across the world. Our Permanent Collection, formed in 1892, has over 3000 works, from Victorian genre paintings to contemporary installations. The changing exhibition programmes focus on the very best in international contemporary art and our Artists’ Studio and Artist Development programmes support artists from across the region. Our education and events programme provides a broad cultural experience for everyone.
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Elizabeth Magill, Irrawaddy, 2017, oil and silkscreen on canvas, 153 x 183 cm
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Elizabeth Magill Headland 17 October 2018 — 20 January 2019 Elizabeth Magill is one of her generation’s leading painters and this exhibition will present a body of new work. “A kind of concentrated ambiguity regarding the natural world…" characterises Magill’s paintings. Throughout her career Magill has been drawn to the language of painting using nature and landscape. She draws from them a gorgeous and engrossing multiplicity of visual and sensory 'description”, Declan Long.
Although predominately living and working in London, Magill’s work is redolent of place - and in particular, drawing from her early beginnings in the North of Ireland. Her approach to image making is always experimental, allowing for previous attempts to give way to newer ones to form an unfolding openness.
Preview: Tuesday 16 October, 6-8pm. All welcome.
In Conversation: Thursday 17 January, 6.30-8pm. Join the artist for a talk about her work. £3. Please book on 01922 654400.
Magill explains that “although my work refers to landscape it is more like an exterior view, an attempt to create a setting or space to place things a kind of deposit of thoughts and observations within the framework of a personal and painting practice."
Daniel Silver, Lilia, 2016, Marble, Plaster Scrim, Mannequin. Photo Stephen White. Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
Daniel Silver Opens 8 February 2019 This major solo exhibition by acclaimed contemporary sculptor Daniel Silver celebrates the Gallery's longstanding commitment to sculpture, and making links between historic and contemporary art, in the 60th anniversary year of Jacob Epstein's death. Silver is pushing the boundaries of sculpture in new and innovative ways, though clearly acknowledging the legacy of art history, and citing Epstein and Modernist sculpture, as well as classical art, amongst his influences. Preview: Thursday 7 February, 6-8pm. All welcome.
This presentation coincides with the Rodin Spotlight Tour from the British Museum in our Collections Galleries and will be Silver’s largest exhibition in a UK public gallery to date. Existing works such as Rock Formations, monumental sculptures collaging stone and bronze heads onto large sections of Carrara marble, will be displayed, alongside new works including a series of works using manipulated shop mannequins which draw out links between the classical and contemporary depictions of the human body.
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Grace A Williams, Intermission, 2018, Installation view, The New Art Gallery Walsall
EXHIBITIONS
Grace A Williams Intermission Until 11 November 2018 Intermission is a new two-screen projection focused on the gaze of two unknown men whose enigmatic portraits appear on nineteenth century photographic slides found by the artist. Hand tinting the images, Grace A Williams references the pivotal role that women played as colourists and ‘ink and paint girls’ in early commercial photography studios and animated film. A new limited edition print accompanies this exhibition, priced £75.
In Conversation Saturday 22 September, 2pm Join the artist for an introduction to her work with curator, Zoë Lippett.
Walsall Society of Artists Annual exhibition 30 November 2018 — 6 January 2019 The 69th annual exhibition by Walsall Society of Artists brings together works in a range of media by local artists. Paintings, drawings, prints and watercolours are presented along with sculpture and craft. Many of the works are available for sale and every Saturday during the exhibition, members will demonstrate their skills here in the Gallery. Come along and take a look!
Preview Thursday 29 November, 6-8pm All welcome
Sarah Taylor Silverwood, Studio test, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
Sarah Taylor Silverwood Daphne 19 January — 12 May 2019 Sarah Taylor Silverwood uses drawing and language as material to produce publications, animation and installation works. Daphne considers the relationship between women and language, taking the ancient Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo as a focus. This early story, which traces Apollo’s pursuit of Daphne and her transformation into a laurel tree, has been retold over centuries in many different art forms.
Through hand-drawn animation, objects and drawing, Taylor Silverwood interprets key motifs within the story and considers how we consume these narratives. In doing so, she highlights the ways in which early stories permeate contemporary popular culture and wider social narratives around women’s experiences. Through the work, Taylor Silverwood also draws attention to the form of animation itself, as a practice that exists between drawing and moving image and a record of the maker’s hand.
A full programme of events accompanies this exhibition this Spring. See website for advance details thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
Cornelia Parker, Broken Jug, from Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed), 2015, polymer photogravure etching. Courtesy Cornelia Parker and Alan Cristea Gallery, London
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Semyon Faibisovich, Sick on the Way?, 2008, oil on canvas Courtesy the artist and Regina Gallery
LAST CHANCE TO SEE
Artists in Focus Until 2 December 2018 This display looks at 10 contemporary artists who have a distinct body of work in our Permanent Collection. Work by each is positioned in relation to one of our key collection themes and presented as a trail through the Floor 1 and 2 galleries. Included are recent acquisitions by Frank Auerbach, Rachel Goodyear, Chantal Joffe and Robert Priseman and works by Semyon Faibisovich from our Art Fund International Collection.
Cornelia Parker Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) Until 2 December 2018 In this body of work, recently acquired for our Permanent Collection, Parker has re-appropriated a group of found glass photographic negatives of antique silverware, continuing her interest in objects and their histories, the material of silver, and the medium of photography.
The Big Draw Event: Drawing from Life Saturday 6 October, 11am-4pm. Drop-in, Free, All welcome. An artist-led open drawing session in the Collection Galleries.
COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS
Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1880-81, The Burrell Collection Š CIC Glasgow Museums Collection
Marcus Taylor, Untitled (Double Fridge), 1991, clear acrylic sheet Courtesy the artist and The Art Fund
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Sculpture in Focus
Rodin: rethinking the fragment
From January 2019
Opens 2 February 2019
To coincide with the 60th anniversary year of Epstein's death, in 2019 we are celebrating sculpture in all forms throughout our Collections programme. The Sculpture in Focus trail will position a key piece of contemporary sculpture from our Permanent Collection within each of our ten themed rooms, featuring diverse artists including Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore, Bob and Roberta Smith and Marcus Taylor, continuing our tradition of making links between historic and contemporary art.
Linked to the 2018 British Museum exhibition Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, this Spotlight tour from the British Museum brings key national works to three regional galleries across the UK, including The Thinker, from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. This exhibition introduces Rodin's relationship with classical sculpture, demonstrating the inspiration he found visiting the British Museum and viewing the Parthenon friezes, and his adoption of the fragment as a central component of his oeuvre.
Previews: Thursday 7 February, 6-8pm All welcome
Rodin talk: Friday 8 February, 2pm Please book your free place on 01922 654400
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Lily Wales, Solway Sister, 2018, photomontage, Courtesy the artist
ARTISTS’ STUDIO
Lily Wales Blue Streak 17 September — 9 December 2018 Working with photomontage, Birmingham-based artist Lily Wales creates 2D and sculptural works that reference the language of military weaponry. During her residency, Lily will explore the history of ‘Blue Streak’, a ballistic missile developed in Britain in the late 1950s. The key that formed part of the firing mechanism was manufactured locally by Century Locks in Willenhall. Due to spiralling costs and political opposition the Blue Streak programme was cancelled in 1960 and the missile was re-appropriated to launch satellites as part of Europe’s bid to enter the Space Race. It was during this time that Blue Streak caught the public’s imagination when a photograph taken at the missile test site in Woomera, South Australia, captured a mysterious figure that has become known as the ‘Solway Spaceman’. Inspired by these incarnations of the Blue Streak missile, Lily will produce new work utilising photomontage, sculpture, coding and melted aluminium. Collage Party! Saturday 3 November, 2-4pm, free, drop-in Get creative in the studio with the artist making your own photomontages. Everyone welcome.
ARTISTS’ STUDIO
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Graduate Residency Award
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
Limited Edition Prints
7 January – 31 March 2019 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to partner with University of Wolverhampton Art School to host two 2018 graduates from the MA Fine Art and MA Art & Design by Research programmes in the Gallery’s Artists’ Studio. The students will be selected from a cohort of MA students who have presented degree work in an exhibition on Floor 3 of the Gallery from 19 – 30 September 2018. Working in succession over the residency period, the selected students will be given the opportunity to develop a personal project without pressure to produce exhibition-ready work, receiving valuable input from staff as well as critical feedback from an external arts specialist.
Why not start your own Art Collection with our exclusive Limited Edition Prints. Produced alongside major exhibitions at The New Art Gallery Walsall, these signed and numbered small editions are exclusive to purchase at the Gallery. Our latest Limited Edition Print, Intermission, by artist Grace A Williams is the perfect place to start. All purchases support the Gallery’s Programme. To find out more about our range of prints, please call the Gallery on 01922 654400 or email info@thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
Above: Grace A Williams, Intermission, 2018, edition of 20, price £75
FAMILIES AND EVENTS
Check out our calendar at the back to find out when all our events are on.
School Holiday Workshops
Regular Family Activities
Tuesday Tots: Toddlers up to 4 years with carers
Baby & Me: Multi- sensory environment taking inspiration from our current Exhibitions for baby’s 0-18months Art Start: Sessions for pre school toddlers, up to 4 years, who are starting to explore art, creativity and mark making. Each session is different.
Wednesday Workshops for all: All ages Thursday Skills: Families with children 4 years and older Friday S.T.E.A.M: 11 – 15 years Saturday Playdate: All ages Pick up the family leaflet, or check out our website for dates, times and more information about our school holiday workshops.
Activity Bags Borrow one of our free activity bags, available from reception. Each bag is filled with fun activities to help you explore our Collections and Temporary Exhibitions.
Magic Lantern Workshops with Grace A Williams Family Workshop Tuesday 30 October, 1 hour sessions available from 12 noon-3pm Scribble, draw, colour, tint and project! Create your own magic lantern in this fun family workshop and then watch as the room comes to life when images are projected. £2.50 per child, free for parents/carers.*
Adult Workshop Saturday 3 November, 11am-1pm An intensive practical workshop looking at the history of tinted glass slides and working from traditional designs to create your own unique hand finished glass plate. £10 per person. All materials provided, no previous experience required.*
* Places are limited and must be booked in advance on 01922 654400
EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
Visit our website for more information on all our events, talks and workshops.
Family Events Drawing from Life
Saturday 6 October, 11am-4pm
Want to learn about drawing, or pick up some new ideas and techniques? Join us to celebrate The Big Draw, for a free for all open drawing session in our Collections galleries, celebrating Museums as Spaces for Wellbeing.
Halloween-themed performances with Mirror Mirror Education Saturday 27 October 15min performances all day
Join London-based charity Mirror Mirror Education for a series of Halloweenthemed magic lantern and optical illusion performances, inspired by nineteenth century stage magic and early cinema. ÂŁ2 per person, free for parents/carers and children aged 2 or under. Places are limited and must be booked and paid for in advance on 01922 654400.
Visit the website for more info on all events or to download our families leaflet: www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
Diwali 2018 Rivers of India
Saturday 10 November, 12pm-4pm Diwali 2018 will be lighting the stars and the reflection will be seen for miles as we delve into the rivers of India and understand why it plays an important role in the lives of Indians.
Local Makers Market
Saturday 1 December, 11am-5pm Sunday 2 December, 12pm-4pm Celebrating the wealth of talent in the region and offering Christmas shoppers the chance to buy local bespoke and handmade products. Join us on Saturday for carols and free mince pies and learn more about the makers with free demonstrations on Sunday. For further information or to apply for a stall please see our website. Alternatively, please contact info@thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk.
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Mahtab Hussain, Mitti Ka Ghar. Photo: Jonathan Shaw. Courtesy of the artist.
EXHIBITIONS
Mahtab Hussain Mitti Ka Ghar Until 24 March 2019 In September 2016, Mahtab Hussain travelled to Kashmir; to the place where his parents had once called home. He was able to meet members of his family for the first time, including his great grandmother, and to witness the kind of life he may have lived, had history taken a different turn. Born and raised in Glasgow in the 1980s, Mahtab Hussain, like many others, experienced racism and discrimination. He was frequently made to feel like he did not belong in Britain yet he knew no other home. Inspired by traditional Kashmiri mud houses that can still be found in parts of the region, the artist is working with local communities to construct, furnish and decorate a house within the gallery and to explore ideas of home. Over the coming months, visitors can watch the house develop. For opportunities to participate, please visit our website.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication Going Back Home to Where I Came From, published by Ikon Gallery and supported by the British Council. It includes texts by Jonathan Watkins, Frank UekĂśtter, Josiah McNeil and Mahtab Hussain. It is available in the Gallery Shop for ÂŁ20
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Situated on the ground floor, our stylish Gallery Shop is a must-see for your Gallery visit. Showcasing a variety of art books; fabulous greetings cards, stylish stationary and artists essentials, you’re sure to find something you’ll love. We’ll make Christmas shopping easy for you with our inspired gifts, creative stocking-fillers and luxury festive cards.
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EXHIBITIONS
CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
Mahtab Hussain: Mitti Ka Ghar | Until 24 March 2019 Elizabeth Magill: Headland | 17 October 2018 — 20 January 2019 Grace A Williams: Intermission | Until 11 November 2018 Artists in Focus | Until 2 December Cornelia Parker l Until 2 December Artists’ Studio — Lily Wales: Blue Streak | 17 September — 9 December 2018
EXHIBITIONS COMING SOON:
OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY
EVENTS
Daniel Silver | Opens 8 February Preview: 7 Feb, 6-8pm
Sculpture in Focus | From January 2019 Preview: 7 Feb, 6-8pm
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The Big Draw Event
Drawing from Life
Wed
10
Baby & Me
Sensory Sessions (Parent & babies upto 18 months)
Tues
16
Tues
23
Preview Art Start
Elizabeth Magill: Headland Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4)
Sat
27
Halloween-themed performances with Mirror Mirror Education
Event for everyone
Sat
27
Saturday Playdate
Kaleidoscopes
Tues
30
Magic Lantern Workshop with Grace A Williams
Family workshop (all ages)
Tues
30
Tuesday Tots
Bag it Up! (Toddlers up to age 4)
Wed
31
Wednesday for All
Shine a Light (all ages)
Thurs
1
Thursday Skills
Sat
3
Saturday Playdate
Out of the Blue (Age 4 and over) Turn your world upside-down (All ages)
Sat
3
Magic Lantern Workshop with Grace A Williams
Adult Workshop
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3
Sat
10
Collage Party! Diwali 2018
Lily Wales Celebration for all ages
Wed
14
Tues
20
Baby & Me Art Start
Sensory Sessions (Parent & babies upto 18 months) Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4)
Thurs
29
Preview
Walsall Society of Artists: Annual exhibition
Sat
1
Local Makers Market
Event for everyone
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2
Local Makers Market
Event for everyone
Wed
12
Tues
18
Baby & Me Art Start
Sensory Sessions (Parent & babies upto 18 months) Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4)
Sat
22
Saturday Playdate
Deck the Halls
Sat
29
Saturday Playdate
New Year's Party
Wed
2
Wednesday for All
Sat
5
Saturday Playdate
Winter Woolies New Year Upcycle
Thur
17
In Conversation
Elizabeth Magill: Headland
Wed
23
Tues
29
Baby & Me Art Start
Sensory Sessions (Parent & babies upto 18 months) Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4)
DECEMBER
JANUARY
Walsall Society of Artists: Annual exhibition | 30 November 2018 — 6 January 2019 Graduate Residency Award | From 7 January 2019 Sarah Taylor Silverwood | From 19 January 2019
BOOKING Rodin: rethinking the fragment | Opens 2 February
11am-4pm
Free, drop in
10.30am-12pm/12.30pm-2pm
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6-8pm 11am-12noon
All welcome £1.50 (book)
15mins shows all day
£2pp / free
11am-4pm
Free
1hr sessions (12noon-3pm)
£2.50 (book)
11am-12noon
£1.50 (book)
12pm-3pm
Free, all welcome
11am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-3pm 11am-4pm
£2.50 (book) Free
11am-1pm
£10 (book)
2-4pm 12pm-4pm
Free, drop-in Free, all welcome
10.30am-12pm/12.30pm-2pm 11am-12noon
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6-8pm
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11am-5pm
Free, all welcome
12pm-4pm
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10.30am-12pm/12.30pm-2pm 11am-12noon
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12pm-3pm 11am-4pm
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6.30-8pm
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10.30am-12pm/12.30pm-2pm 11am-12noon
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Visit the website for full details on all events or follow us on twitter: thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk @newartgallery Elizabeth Magill is supported by:
Mahtab Hussain is supported by:
Cornelia Parker, Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) is supported by:
Rodin: rethinking the fragment is supported by:
The University of Wolverhampton MA (Fine Art) Degree Show:
The Big Draw Drawing from Life is supported by:
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