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New Collection and Exhibtion Displays 2010
Between Kismet and Karma
South Asian Women Artists Respond to Conflict
6 March - 8 May 2010
Private View 5 March, 6-8pm
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This pioneering exhibition provides a British context for creative engagement with arenas of conflict experienced by South Asian women artists from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The exhibition explores the notion of conflict in different but interconnecting sites: Home, Bodies, Cities, Borders/ Nation and Artist/ Artisan/ Activist.
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Arts Council England, Leeds University and Shisha, the international agency for contemporary South Asian crafts and visual arts.
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Prisoner and Ruler
March 2010 - January 2011
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Leeds was the first regional public collection to acquire a painting by Francis Bacon in 1950.
The securing of a long-term loan of an additional Francis Bacon painting from the Arts Council collection ('Head VI') will be used to explore through a number of displays the legacy of this legendary 20th century artist . This first display will put the Leeds and Arts Council Collection paintings in the context of the Leeds' collection, taking as a theme John Russell's defining remark (1933) that Bacon was 'a painter of figures in rooms'. The display aims to show how, behind the relative simplicity of this definition, a key aspect of the artist's development in this crucial period was his experimentation and configuration of space, which was to become a defining feature of his work throughout his subsequent career.
There are plans to accompany this display with a writing project with a significant author.
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Sean Scully - 1980s
28 May - 8 August
Private View 27 May, 6-8pm
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Sean Scully is one of the leading abstract painters working today. His work is represented in most major international museums and has been the subject of an extraordinary number of retrospectives around the world, in Europe, the Americas and Australia. In 1975 he settled in New York and now divides his time between New York, Barcelona and Munich.
In the early 1980s, Scully re-introduced colour, space and texture through the application of multiple layers of paint and thereby added an expressive element to his work. He introduced relief elements in his paintings, broadening the expressive range of his work with a more emphatic, physical quality: 'I liked the idea of looking at a painting that you could not look at just from the front but had to move around.' At the same time stripes widen and become more pulsating, colour intensifies and black is often used to evoke feelings from solemn to sinister.
By the mid 1980s Scully had gained international recognition and many major museums began to acquire his paintings. This exhibition focuses on Scully's work from the 1980s, together with works on paper from the artist's own collection. This period has not been reflected in recent gallery exhibitions but holds a very special place in the development of his art.
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JMW Turner's haunting and exquisite watercolour bird studies were made c. 1815/16 after shooting excursions with one of his principal patrons, Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall, near Otley. This display looks at them in the context of their times and attitudes to natural science. Turner's sketches were originally contributions to a large ornithological album at Farnley Hall where they faced Thomas Bewick's engravings from his 1805 'British Birds' - loans of Bewick's engravings will form part of this exhibition. Other members of the Fawkes family made contributions to the album - the 'space' this opened up in the album will be taken in the exhibition by taxidermied birds from the collection as well as contemporary taxidermy and a contribution from Alec Finlay (externally sited 'bird-boxes' and 'renga' poetry workshops) subject to ACEY support
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Open Show Plus
15 August - 19 September 2010
Private View 15 August, 12 noon
The annual open show for artists based in the region, is extended to involve younger people, inviting submissions from under 18s, which will be displayed in a parallel exhibition. This aspect of the project will be funded by 'Find Your Talent' and includes an aspiration to set up a 'Young Curators Group'.
Inlaid Patchwork in Europe
27 August - 31 October 2010
Private View 26 August, 6-8pm
This exhibition of inlaid textiles features significant examples from 1500 to the present. Horsemen, blossoms, animals, religious stories and spray painted stencil images unfold as a baroque pictorial cosmos on tapestries and covers. All these objects are made in a textile intarsia (inlaid patchwork) technique, ornamented and refined by additional textile techniques. The works are pictorial, straddling the boundary between art and craft. Displaying the work in a gallery will encourage new audiences and develop the debate around pictorial representation. There are plans to supplement the exhibition with a series of schools' workshops, led by members of our Art team also a three-day artist's residency during the October half term, in the Gallery's Artspace.
The exhibition is organised by the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. After Vienna and Bautzen Leeds is the only English venue.
Construction and its Shadow
September 2010 - March 2011
Independent curator, Andrew Bick's inspiration for making this project was developed during a recent Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute. It comes from the re-emergence of abstract systems and constructivist tendencies in younger generations of artists with links to Constructivism' in British art. It had its inception in the international movement in the 30s, but crystallised in the 1950s in a largely overlooked grouping of artists around Geoffrey Steele, Gillian Wise, Anthony Hill, Peter Lowe and Kenneth and Mary Martin.
For further information please contact:
Dr Tanja Pirsig-Marshall
Curator: Exhibitions
Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds LS1 3AA
Tel: 0044 (0)113 2478277
Fax: 0044 (0)113 2449689
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