What's on: June — September 2016
The New Art Gallery Walsall
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Cover Image ~ Frank Bowling, Where is Lucienne?, 1971, acrylic on canvas, 308 x 337 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery, London, New York
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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CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
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Tania Kovats, All the Sea, 2012 – ongoing, seawater, glass, cork, oak, (365 bottles), 600 x 278.5 cm. Installation view: The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Photo: Ruth Clark
Curator’s tour Saturday 2 July, 2pm Join Deborah Robinson for an informal tour of the exhibition. Free, just drop in!
Land, Sea and Air Until 4 September 2016
Frank Bowling (UK/Guyana), Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/USA), Agnes Denes (USA/Hungary), Shilpa Gupta (India), Amar Kanwar (India), Tania Kovats (UK), Cornelia Parker (UK) This exhibition brings together a diverse selection of international artists, engaging in different ways with maps, and by extension, borders and territory. Paintings, drawings, prints, video, sculpture and installation combine to create a visually powerful and thought provoking exhibition. The selected artists vary in approach and their works span a period of over forty years. Consistent within all of these works is a combination of the personal, the poetic and the political.
Tiffany Chung, remapping history: an autopsy of a battle, an excavation of a man’s past, 2015, vinyl decal, photographs, videos, archival photographs, found images and audio recording, texts, drawings. Courtesy of the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York
Maps have continued to provide a potent source material for artists for many years. They provide attempts to create order from a world that is ever in transformation; whether in terms of physical manifestations such as the erosion of land masses or the rapid expansion of cities; or through shifting or contested borders, betraying evidence of conflict, resistance, negotiation and power. Maps also serve to support a sense of identity or an engagement with a specific time and place.
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Eva Rothschild, What the Eye Wants, exhibition view, Modern Art, London, 2014.
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Eva Rothschild 23 September 2016 — 15 January 2017 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present a major exhibition of new work by Irish sculptor Eva Rothschild. Rothschild is one of the leading sculptors of her generation and has gained extensive international recognition for her work. Her practice is informed by an ongoing interest in the meeting points between spirituality, visual perception and the nature of materiality. She works across a range of media including steel, leather, resin, plastic and fabric and her work is often characterised by the use Preview Thursday 22 September, 6-8pm Join us in the company of the artist
of unstable geometric forms. This will be Rothschild’s first solo exhibition in the Midlands and the new body of work will include a specially commissioned piece using leather, a material at the centre of Walsall’s manufacturing industry. Eva Rothschild has had solo shows at Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas, Tate Britain, and The Hepworth Wakefield. Her work is held in major collections including Tate, The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She was elected to the Royal Academy in 2015.
This exhibition is generously supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme.
Ruth Claxton, installation view 2015, SYSON project space, Nottingham. Photo: Brian J Morrison
ARTISTS' STUDIO
Ruth Claxton Until 17 July 2016
The Building as Material Open Call-Out
(Window Box continues until 21 August)
16 August — 13 November 2016
Ruth Claxton is known for her large-scale, site responsive architectural installations, which often utilise materials that are ‘activated’ by a viewer’s physical presence. She will use her residency to experiment with retro-reflective pigment, a distinctly contemporary material most commonly used in cycling jackets to illuminate the wearer in a headlamp’s beam.
Twenty years ago, London-based architects Caruso St John were selected to design a new gallery for Walsall after winning a high profile international competition. Since opening in 2000, the resulting 37-metre-high building, clad in terracotta tiles punctuated by large windows, has been a source of inspiration for artists. This residency will provide an opportunity for one West Midlands-based artist to respond to the raw materials and interior of The New Art Gallery Walsall: concrete, leather, Douglas fir, walnut, and stainless steel.
Following a period of experimentation in the Artists’ Studio, Ruth will create a special installation for the Gallery’s front-facing Window Box. www.ruthclaxton.info Follow Ruth Claxton on twitter: @ruthclaxton
See www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org. uk/info/opportunities for details.
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Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), Caryatid c. 1912-14, pencil and crayon on paper. The Garman Ryan Collection
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), The Fallen Caryatid Carrying her Stone c.1880-1, cast 1950, bronze. © Tate, London 2015
COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS
Until 11 February 2017 As part of a three year partnership with Tate, the 2016 Interventions into The Garman Ryan Collection are drawn from Tate’s renowned collection. 16 Tate artworks have been paired with related works in The Garman Ryan Collection, linked either by artist, subject or theme. Included are key examples by Eric Gill, Cedric Morris, John Nash, Picasso and Rodin. The Garman Ryan Collection was formed by Sir Jacob Epstein’s widow and gifted Artwork of the Month Look out for the signage in the Gallery and monthly feature on our website.
to Walsall in 1973. Amongst the 365 artworks are many by Epstein and his circle, including Gaudier-Brzeska, Augustus John, Matthew Smith and Lucian Freud; as well as by leading 19th century European masters Constable, Degas and Pissarro. It includes many parallels with works from Tate’s extensive collections of British and European art and we are privileged to have the opportunity to display some fantastic examples in this exhibition, highlighting standout works from both collections. Exhibition Tours Saturdays 16 July & 10 September, 2pm A tour of the exhibition led by a pair of our knowledgeable Gallery Assistants.
David Rowan, Mid Lacunae, 2013, photographic print. Courtesy of David Rowan.
Recent Acquisitions
Part 2: Landscape and the Urban Environment 23 July — January 2017 Throughout this year we are displaying some of the newest additions to our Permanent Collection, in the lead up to its 125th anniversary in 2017. Our collecting policy priorities include works related to the themes in The Garman Ryan Collection, or by artists who have been part of our temporary exhibitions programmes. The New Art Gallery Walsall owns jointly with Birmingham Museums Trust a collection of international art on the
theme of the Metropolis, which was generously supported by The Art Fund, and Landscape is a central theme of our renowned Garman Ryan Collection. This exhibition showcases works which complement these themes and have been collected by the Gallery over the last few years by Willie Doherty, John Newling, David Rowan, Paul Seawright and Emma Stibbon.
Part 1: People and Artistic Connections finishes on 16 July Features works by Frank Auerbach, Glenn Brown and Laura Lancaster.
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Dayanita Singh, from the series Dream Villa, 2008, c-type photographic print. Courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery.
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
The Humble Vessel Until 24 July 2016 Throughout history, artists have looked to boats and the sea as subject matter, sometimes romantically, yet often addressing issues around migration, loss, absence, struggle and hope. Today, the subjects seem particularly relevant as images of refugees, attempting to cross into the relative safety of Europe, flash across our TV screens. This exhibition grapples with these ideas by exploring the symbol of the humble boat as depicted by diverse artists.
The exhibition features a newly commissioned film work by Pakistani artist Fazal Rizvi, together with historic, modern and contemporary works from the collections of the British Council and The New Art Gallery Walsall. Artists include David Muirhead Bone, Ryan Gander, Harold Gilman, Nigel Hall, Eric Ravilious, Jules-Émile Saintin, William Scott, Sarah Taylor Silverwood, Dayanita Singh and Bob and Roberta Smith.
This exhibition is curated by Aziz Sohail, a curator from Pakistan, who spent three weeks at the Gallery on a curatorial development residency supported by the British Council. He has received mentoring over the past year to curate this exhibition and continues to work with the Gallery team, connecting the UK with Pakistan.
Oliver Jones, Divine (detail), studio image of work in progress, 2016. photo: the artist
Oliver Jones Divine 5 August — 20 November 2016 Oliver Jones is known for his photorealist chalk drawings, which consider how the media advertises, manipulates and exploits imagery of flesh. For his solo exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall, Oliver has created a new large-scale multi-panel work, Divine (2016), taking the studio of the tattoo artist as its subject. Emblematic of a religious altarpiece, the triptych refers to Laocoön and His Sons, an ancient marble sculpture in the Vatican regarded as an icon of human Preview Thursday 4 August 2016, 6-8pm All welcome
agony and suffering. Through the work, Oliver prompts questions about the psychology of body modification and the role of extreme procedures in the attainment of physical perfection. Oliver Jones was born in Shropshire in 1985 and works from his studio in Birmingham. In 2014 he presented ‘Love the Skin You’re In’, his first North American solo show at GUSFORD| los angeles, and was shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize. His work continues to be shown nationally and internationally including notable collections in Los Angeles, Frankfurt and Istanbul and he was also shortlisted for the 2015 John Ruskin Prize.
In Conversation Saturday 15 October 2016, 2pm Join the artist and Curator, Zoë Lippett, for a talk about the exhibition. Free, all welcome
FAMILIES AND EVENTS
The Family Gallery is a space for children and their carers to explore together, to have fun and to learn through creative play. It provides an introduction to using the gallery and offers ideas about engaging with art works. Pop in to see us and find out what is happening.
Drop in anytime
Family Activities Pick up the family leaflet, or check out our website for dates and more information about our workshops: Tuesday Tots / Wednesday Workshops for all / Thursday Skill Day / Playdate Saturdays We run regular activities including:
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Baby Palace: Multi-sensory environment Art Start: Explore art and make things Arts Award: Explore art for 5-25 year olds
Borrow one of our free activity or trail bags: Tod Bags: Ages 3-5 years with carers Frisky Bags: Ages 6-12 years Drawing Bags: With materials and paper Exhibition Bags: Explore the exhibitions
Visit the website for more information on all events or to download our families leaflet: www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk www.pinterest.com/NAGEducation Instagram: thenewartgallerywalsall
Twitter: @newartgallery Check out our calendar at the back to find out when all our events are on. We have events throughout the summer holidays, come and see us!
EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
Adult Workshops
Events
Looking at Art: A beginners course
Baby Fest
Starts Thursday 22 September 2016 10 week non-accredited course Suitable for adult learners of all ages with no previous art knowledge. This beginner’s course is a 10 week series exploring, looking and discussing art across four Black Country and Birmingham art galleries, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, The Barber Institute for Fine Arts and Ikon Gallery, in partnership with Wolverhampton Adult Education Service.
Tuesday 21 June, 10am-3pm. FREE #celebratebreastfeeding
A grand day out for bumps, tinies, tots, parents, carers and grandparents to explore the gallery. Lots to enjoy on the day including music, games, messy play, workshops, information stands, multi sensory Baby Palace sessions and much more. Walsall Healthcare NHS staff will be on hand to talk to for information about pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and toddlerhood.
Concessionary rates available please contact Wolverhampton Adult Education Service for more information. Bookings via Wolverhampton Adult Education Service on 01902 558180 www.aeswolverhampton.gov.uk
Look out for our new online booking system coming soon!
Visit our website for more information on all our events, talks and workshops.
EXHIBITIONS
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The University of Wolverhampton
ArtistTeacher Scheme
4 June — 3 July 2016
30 July — 25 September 2016
Each year, students from the BEd Degree course in Primary Teacher Education at The University of Wolverhampton (Walsall Campus), engage with the Gallery in a partnership project. This ongoing relationship aims to develop the students’ knowledge and understanding of teaching art and to equip them with the skills and confidence to engage their own students with the Gallery’s programmes.
The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to be hosting the 2016 Artist Teacher Scheme exhibition. The scheme is a continuing professional development course run in partnership between The New Art Gallery Walsall, Ikon Gallery and Birmingham City University. It offers art educators support and opportunity to re-engage with their own development as artists by extending their awareness of contemporary fine art practice.
Preview Saturday 4 June, 1-3pm All welcome
Preview Friday 29 July, 6-7pm All welcome
Inspiring Teachers
GALLERY SHOP
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Gallery Shop
Venue Hire
Visit our newly refurbished bright and stylish ground floor shop where you will find gallery souvenirs, greeting cards and stationery. We have new ranges including a wide selection of artist’s materials and gifts.
A unique setting for inspiring and creative events at affordable rates. Be surrounded by fascinating art collections and exhibitions in a signature building designed by Caruso St John. Enjoy panoramic views from the roof terrace adjoining the newly refurbished Floor 4 Conference Facility and hospitality by recommended caterers Costa Coffee.
We continue to stock specialist books on art, architecture and local history and offer Limited Edition prints by artists including Mat Collishaw and Richard Long. Every purchase supports the Gallery
Friends of the Gallery receive a 10% discount
Frequent train services from Birmingham and parking available nearby.
For corporate events and meetings, email venuehire@thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk or call 01922 654400 for further details.
EXHIBITIONS
CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS JUNE
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Land, Sea and Air | Until 4 September 2016 The Humble Vessel | Until 24 July 2016 Works from Tate into The Garman Ryan Collection | Until 11 February 2017 Recent Acquisitions Part 1: People and Artistic Connections | Until 16 July Ruth Claxton | Until 17 July 2016 (Window Box until 21 August) Wolverhampton University exhibition | 4 June — 3 July 2016
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Right Hat for the Job Tools of the Trade The University of Wolverhampton Art Start #Golden Baby Fest Art Start
Wednesday Workshops for all (all ages) Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Preview Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Young People - Gold Arts Award Bumps, tinies, tots, parents, carers & grandparents Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4)
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Land, Sea and Air Art Start #Golden Works from Tate Baby Palace Art Start Saturday Playdate Mapping Treasure Mapping Collagraph Artist Teachers Scheme Saturday Playdate
Curator’s tour Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Young People - Gold Arts Award Exhibition Tour Sensory sessions (Parents & babies upto 18 months) Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Group artwork making in The Family Gallery Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday Workshops for all (all ages) Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Preview Group artwork making in The Family Gallery
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Give Me a Sign Do Signs Badge Signs Oliver Jones Saturday Playdate Marbling Mapping Build your own Treasure Island Square Mapping Saturday Playdate I, Eye Telescopes Binocular eyes Periscopes Saturday Playdate Lantern planet Satellite Tim Silk Screen Planet Saturday Playdate Water Bottle Music Postcard home
Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday Workshops for all (all ages) Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Preview Group artwork making in The Family Gallery Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday Workshops for all (all ages) Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Group artwork making in The Family Gallery Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday Workshops for all (all ages) Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Group artwork making in The Family Gallery Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday Workshops for all (all ages) Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Group artwork making in The Family Gallery Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday Workshops for all (all ages)
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Printed maps Works from Tate Baby Palace Eva Rothschild Looking at Art
Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Exhibition Tour Sensory sessions (Parents & babies upto 18 months) Preview Adult beginners course
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COMING SOON: Eva Rothschild
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Oliver Jones: Divine | 5 August — 20 November 2016 Recent Acquisitions Part 2: Landscape and the Urban Environment | 23 July — January 2017 The Building as Material | 16 August — 13 November 2016 Artist Teacher Scheme | 30 July — 25 September 2016
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Free (Drop in) £1.50 (book) £10 (book) Free – all welcome £1.50 (book) £1.50 (book) Free £1.50 (book) Free – all welcome £2.50 (book) All welcome Free
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BOOKING Pre book for events on 01922 654400 or just ask at reception. Collect your ticket from reception anytime when you’ve paid. Any bookings made for paid workshops will be held for seven days without payment. Look out for our new online booking system coming soon!
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The Humble Vessel is supported by:
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