The City’s Heritage – Beyond the Square Mile
19 September - 12 November 2008
This exhibition, organised by the City of London Guide Lecturers
Association, looks at items originally located in the City of
London which have since travelled to diverse locations all over the
world. The display comprises interpretative texts and photographs
alongside a selection of the original objects themselves. Among the
subjects explored is Rennie’s 1831 London Bridge, which now
famously spans the Colorado River in Arizona, together with lesser
known ones such as some of England’s earliest printed books now
found in Dulwich in London and California and the facades of the
Old Broad Street and Ludgate Hill stations now in Henley,
Oxfordshire.
London, its River and The Cutty Sark
A Special Exhibition of Paintings by the Wapping Group of
Artists
2 – 26 October 2008
This exhibition of recent works by the Wapping Group of Artists
includes a special section on the Cutty Sark, the only tea clipper
still in existence. The Cutty Sark Restoration Trust gave the group
unprecedented access to paint the ship during her restoration
following the major fire on 21 May 2007.
The tea-clipper Cutty Sark, built in 1869, was a typically
Victorian piece of engineering bravura, combining extreme
performance with beauty and craftsmanship. She has been a popular
subject for artists throughout her life—she is a beautiful vessel,
a romantic vision of the bygone era of sail, and has been an
inspiration to generations of visitors while in dry berth at
Greenwich.
The 139-year-old ship is currently undergoing a major
conservation project and the members of the Wapping Group of
Artists have donned hard hats, high visibility jackets and steel
toe-capped boots to visit the ship and find inspiration for new
artwork.
The exhibition will showcase these paintings and will include
several new visions of the ship looking very different indeed from
the previous depictions of this icon of Greenwich, London and the
Thames.
The Wapping Group was formally founded in 1946 and initially met
to record the busy life of London's dockland. Since then, the scope
of locations has widened in response to the changes of The Thames
Today it ranges from Henley, up-river, through London and out to
the Rivers Medway, Crouch and Blackwater.
For more information visit the
Cutty
Sark website
G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary
Highlights from the Watts Gallery Collection.
11 November 2008 – 26 April 2009
This exhibition focuses on one of Britain’s most original and
unusual artists, George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). Drawn from the
collection of the Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey and as part of the
Watts in the City project, the exhibition has been made possible by
the Watts Gallery’s imminent closure for its exciting
Lottery-funded restoration project Hope.
Alongside photographs and other archival material, G F Watts,
Victorian Visionary presents more than eighty paintings, drawings
and sculptures which explore all the varied aspects of Watts’s work
– ranging from ambitious and unusual allegorical compositions to
ravishing portraits, landscapes and a deeply felt engagement with
such social issues as the Irish famine.
Guildhall Art Gallery’s exhibition is complemented by a further
exhibition from the Watts Gallery in the Crypt of St Paul’s
Cathedral, G F Watts: Parables in Paint (1 December 2008 - 30 July
2009).
The exhibitions are accompanied by an important new book on
Watts edited by Mark Bills (Victorian specialist and Curator of the
Watts Gallery) and Barbara Bryant (art historian, writer and
consultant specialising in the work of G F Watts). The book
contains essays by leading scholars and 220 colour illustrations.
It is published by Yale University Press and will be available from
the Gallery shop at £20.00 paperback.
For more information visit
the Watts Gallery
No Man's Land - Paintings of the Battlefields of the First
World War, by Brian Yale
13 November - 7 December 2008
Coinciding with the 90th anniversary of the end of the First
World War, this exhibition features a series of pictures produced
by painter and sculptor Brian Yale in the mid 1980s. His interest
in the subject emerged when he was a child during the Second World
War years. In these works it combines with his preoccupation as a
painter with the sea, the sky and evidence of human presence on the
land. The battlefield pictures, including views of Passchendaele,
the Somme and Ypres, depict landscapes which still show the scars
of the First World War even after 70 years.
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