February 2012
20 posts
Madeleine Burt Solo Show Private View
Thursday, April 19, 2012
6:00pm until 8:00pm
Angear Visitors Centre, Djanogly Gallery
Madeleine Burt’s latest solo show displays new work that continues to explore two archives local to her: the Moth Archive at Wollaton Hall and the Lace Archive at Nottingham Trent University.
The previous work based on these archives questioned what we choose to preserve, and draws upon...
The Artworks - Derek Bacon's Solo Exhibition. The...
The Artworks, Enefco House, Ball Lane, Poole Quay, Poole, BH15 1HJ
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 7:00pm until Friday, March 30, 2012 at 4:00pm
This March sees Poole-based artist Derek Bacon’s first solo exhibition of work. Selected from his extensive portfolio, the exhibition showcases Derek’s vibrant illustration work, as well as more traditional painting, drawing and photography. Entirely...
Harbour House / Events / Mon 5th to Sat 10th Mar...
Explorations
Kingsbridge Community College presents its seventh annual exhibition at Harbour House, featuring a wide range of Art, Photography and Textiles produced by VI Form Students.
The exhibition gives the students the opportunity to show off the coursework produced for AS and A2 Level studies.
Art & Design students in Year 12 are currently working on portrait paintings on the theme...
Charline von Heyl at Tate Liverpool
Feb 24, 2012 - May 27, 2012
Tate - Albert Dock, Liverpool
Discover the work of acclaimed contemporary artist Charline von Heyl in this brand new exhibition. Distinctive, imaginative and always surprising, Charline von Heyl’s work offers a fresh and exciting approach to the world of abstract art. Von Heyl is at the forefront of a new generation of abstract painters who have rejected late...
Amy Cummins - Exhibition at Kennaway House, Devon
Talented artist Amy Cummins will be staging an exhibition of her work at Kennaway House, Sidmouth, Devon from 2nd to the 5th March 2012. The exhibition will be mainly comprised of Amy’s popular landscapes.
There will be paintings (some from “The Subconscious Mind” collection) exhibited at The Sea Shanty in Branscombe, from 2nd March onwards. If you wish to view the collection before that...
Gustav Klimt at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Gustav Klimt
at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna - Maria Theresien Platz, Vienna, Austria
Feb 14, 2012 - May 6, 2012
Curated by Dr. Otmar Rychlik
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birthday of Gustav Klimt on July 14, 2012, the Kunsthistorisches Museum will showcase its important wall paintings designed and executed by the celebrated painter and draughtsman. In 1890, a year...
Martin Creed - Tate, Liverpool Exhibition
Martin Creed
at Tate Liverpool -Albert Dock, Liverpool, UK
Feb 24, 2012 - Jul 27, 2012
ARTIST ROOMS returns to Tate Liverpool in 2012, with a display of seven important works from Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed (b. 1968). These works have recently been donated by Creed jointly to Tate and National Galleries of Scotland for the ARTIST ROOMS collection. Creed is the first...
Jeremy Deller: Joy in People
at Hayward Gallery - Belvedere Road, Lambeth, London, UK
Feb 22, 2012 - May 13, 2012
A hugely influential artist for much of the past two decades, Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller has helped to rewrite the rules of contemporary art in many respects. This mid-career survey – the first in the artist’s career – provides a fresh overview of his multi-faceted work.
The exhibition incorporates...
"JUGGLING CONCEPTS," Art Exhibition by Richard...
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 10:00am until Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 5:00pm
This exhibition brings together numerous works that I have built up over the last 12 months. It explores Global issues on national, local and personal levels. All the works hold my signature style yet push its boundaries in all directions from intense overly developed, detailed imagery to new minimalist works. The works...
Amy Cummins Opens Her Own Gallery
Our resident artist Amy Cummins will be opening a gallery in Libra Court, Sidmouth, Devon, on the 1st March 2012. Details of the opening: 9am on Thursday 1st March through til Sunday 4th March at 6pm. Drop in that weekend if you can make it. Amy will be there working from Monday 5th March until the foreseeable future so if you can’t make it for the drop in weekend opening, drop in any...
Picasso and Modern British Art
at Tate Britain - Millbank, London, UK
Feb 15, 2012 - Jul 15, 2012
Picasso remains the twentieth century’s single most important artistic figure, a towering genius who changed the face of modern art. In a major new exhibition at Tate Britain, Picasso and Modern British Art explores his extensive legacy and influence on British art, how this played a role in the acceptance of modern art in...
Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings
at Victoria Miro Gallery - 16 Wharf Road, London, UK
Feb 9, 2012 - Apr 5, 2012
Victoria Miro Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Japan’s most revered contemporary artist, Yayoi Kusama. The paintings have been selected from a major series commenced during the past three years. Initially conceived by Kusama to comprise a hundred paintings, the series has,...
STABLE STATES @ CULTIVATE VYNER STREET
Thursday at 6:00pm until February 22 at 6:00pm
CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET, Corner of Vyner Street and Mowlem Street, E2 9HA, London, United Kingdom
Stable States is a six artist group show featuring Elaine Johnson, Yasmina Chami, Anna Haward, Mark Rose, Sadie Hennessy and Ben Gooding. Stable States brings together six contemporary artists working across a range of disciplines and media. Yasmina...
Imagination Station
Sunday, February 26, 2012
2:00pm until 5:00pm
The Art House - 178 Above Bar Street, S014 7DW Southampton, Hampshire
Take a trip to the Imagination Station, All you need is a passion for creation! Whatever your creative outlet or ability, come along and bring paper to write a story, a pen to write a poem, an instrument to find a tune, a voice to find a song, a pencil for a picture, but...
Cecil Beaton: Queen Elizabeth II
at Victoria and Albert Museum - Cromwell Road, London, UK
Feb 8, 2012 - Apr 22, 2012
The photographs of the British royal family by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) were central to shaping the monarchy’s public image in the mid-20th century. her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was still a young princess when she first sat for Beaton in 1942. Over the next three decades he would be invited to...
Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings
at Hauser & Wirth, London, Piccadilly - 196A Piccadilly, London, UK
Feb 3, 2012 - Feb 28, 2012
‘My paintings aren’t about art issues. They’re about a feeling that comes to me from the outside, from landscape. … Paintings aren’t about the person who makes them, either. My paintings have to do with feelings’.
– Joan Mitchell, 1974 Hauser & Wirth is proud to present an exhibition of...
Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern
Feb 9, 2012 - Jun 5, 2012 - Bankside, London, UK
The nine decades of Yayoi Kusama’s life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film,...
Migrations at Tate Britain
Jan 31, 2012 - Aug 12, 2012 - Millbank, London, UK
This exhibition will explore British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day, reflecting the remit of Tate Britain Collection displays. From the sixteenth and seventeenth century Flemish and Dutch landscape and still-life painters who came to Britain in search of new patrons, through moments of political and religious...
David Shrigley: Brain Activity
at Hayward Gallery - Belvedere Road, Lambeth, London, UK
Feb 1, 2012 - May 20, 2012
British artist David Shrigley is best known for his humourous drawings that make witty and wry observations on everyday life.
Trained as a fine artist, his deliberately crude graphic style gives his work an immediate and accessible appeal, while simultaneously offering insightful commentary on the...
Art of War - 30th Anniversary Of The Falklands War
Artist: Rachael Lomas
An exhibition marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Falklands War will be held at Weston’s Helicopter Museum.
West Country Artist Rachael Lomas has reflected in her exhibition the islands’ environment and how it affected the course of the conflict.
The exhibition will commence on 2nd February and will run for 26 weeks up until the 22nd July 2012.
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