West Country Galleries
We have a stunning online gallery exhibiting and selling hundreds of beautiful pieces of work from talented artists in the South West of England.
Launched on Facebook Nov 2010
Welcome to West Country Galleries Limited
Become a fan and we'll keep you posted about exhibitions, special events, latest news in the art world and lots more!
West Country Galleries is here to increase everyone's enjoyment and understanding of art. We value your feedback. We are an online art gallery selling beautiful paintings including abstract art, seascapes and landscapes and floral art. Our mission is to bring together talented contemporary artists from across the South West of England. Our aim in the near future is to embrace a wider geographical range of the British Isles.
We collate selected works from renowned artists, photographers and sculptures. Our current featured artists are Angie Thomas, Anthony Waller, Amanda McAndrews, Adelene Fletcher and Sabrina Roscino.
Log on to our website and embark on an amazing journey from the comfort of your own computer. You can visit us anytime; we are open every hour of the day.
Enjoy browsing through many different types of art collected together on one site. We also offer you the choice of a Virtual Room to check whether your chosen piece of artwork suits your decor.
Find us at: www.westcountrygalleries.co.uk
Facebook:www.facebook.com/wcgalleries
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/WCountryGallery
Launched on Facebook Nov 2010
Welcome to West Country Galleries Limited
Become a fan and we'll keep you posted about exhibitions, special events, latest news in the art world and lots more!
West Country Galleries is here to increase everyone's enjoyment and understanding of art. We value your feedback. We are an online art gallery selling beautiful paintings including abstract art, seascapes and landscapes and floral art. Our mission is to bring together talented contemporary artists from across the South West of England. Our aim in the near future is to embrace a wider geographical range of the British Isles.
We collate selected works from renowned artists, photographers and sculptures. Our current featured artists are Angie Thomas, Anthony Waller, Amanda McAndrews, Adelene Fletcher and Sabrina Roscino.
Log on to our website and embark on an amazing journey from the comfort of your own computer. You can visit us anytime; we are open every hour of the day.
Enjoy browsing through many different types of art collected together on one site. We also offer you the choice of a Virtual Room to check whether your chosen piece of artwork suits your decor.
Find us at: www.westcountrygalleries.co.uk
Facebook:www.facebook.com/wcgalleries
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/WCountryGallery
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Jun 7, 2012 - Aug 11, 2012
16 Wharf Road, London, UK
In The Vanity of Small Differences Grayson Perry explores his fascination with taste and the visual story it tells of our interior lives in a series of six tapestries at Victoria Miro and three programmes, All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, for Channel 4. The artist goes on a safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain, to gather inspiration for his artworks, literally weaving the characters he meets into a narrative partly inspired by Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress.
Grayson Perry comments: “The tapestries tell the story of class mobility, for I think nothing has as strong an influence on our aesthetic taste as the social class in which we grow up. I am interested in the politics of consumerism and the history of popular design but for this project I focus on the emotional investment we make in the things we choose to live with, wear, eat, read or drive. Class and taste run deep in our character - we care. This emotional charge is what draws me to a subject”.
Perry has always worked with traditional media; ceramics, cast iron, bronze, printmaking and tapestry. He is interested in how each historic category of object accrues over time intellectual and emotional baggage. Tapestry is the art form of grand houses: depicting classical myths, historical and religious scenes and epic battles. In this series of works Perry plays with idea of using this ancient allegorical art to elevate the commonplace dramas of modern British life.
The artist’s primary inspiration was A Rake’s Progress (1732 -33) by William Hogarth, which in eight paintings tells the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who inherits a fortune from his miserly father, spends it all on fashionable pursuits and gambling, marries for money, gambles away a second fortune, goes to debtors’ prison and dies in a madhouse.
The Vanity of Small Differences tells the story of the rise and demise of Tim Rakewell and is composed of characters, incidents and objects Perry encountered on journeys through Sunderland, Tunbridge Wells and The Cotswolds. Hogarth has long been an influence on Perry’s works, his Englishness, his robust humour and his depiction of, in his own words, ‘modern moral subjects’. The secondary influence comes from Perry’s favourite form of art, early Renaissance painting.
Each of the six images, to a greater or lesser extent, pays homage to a religious work. Including Masaccio’sExpulsion from the Garden of Eden, Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece, Rogier Van de Weyden’sLamentation and three different paintings of The Annunciation by Carlo Crivelli, Grünewald and Robert Campin. The images also reference the pictorial display of wealth and status in The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck and Mr & Mrs Andrews by Thomas Gainsborough. Woven into each tapestry are snatches of text, each one in the voice of a participant in the scene illustrated. Each image also features a small dog, reminiscent of Hogarth’s beloved pug, Trump.
The Vanity of Small Differences is at Victoria Miro from 7 June - 11 August 2012.
Channel 4’s new three-part series, All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry starts on Tuesday 5 June at 10pm. Future Previous Next
Grayson Perry comments: “The tapestries tell the story of class mobility, for I think nothing has as strong an influence on our aesthetic taste as the social class in which we grow up. I am interested in the politics of consumerism and the history of popular design but for this project I focus on the emotional investment we make in the things we choose to live with, wear, eat, read or drive. Class and taste run deep in our character - we care. This emotional charge is what draws me to a subject”.
Perry has always worked with traditional media; ceramics, cast iron, bronze, printmaking and tapestry. He is interested in how each historic category of object accrues over time intellectual and emotional baggage. Tapestry is the art form of grand houses: depicting classical myths, historical and religious scenes and epic battles. In this series of works Perry plays with idea of using this ancient allegorical art to elevate the commonplace dramas of modern British life.
The artist’s primary inspiration was A Rake’s Progress (1732 -33) by William Hogarth, which in eight paintings tells the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who inherits a fortune from his miserly father, spends it all on fashionable pursuits and gambling, marries for money, gambles away a second fortune, goes to debtors’ prison and dies in a madhouse.
The Vanity of Small Differences tells the story of the rise and demise of Tim Rakewell and is composed of characters, incidents and objects Perry encountered on journeys through Sunderland, Tunbridge Wells and The Cotswolds. Hogarth has long been an influence on Perry’s works, his Englishness, his robust humour and his depiction of, in his own words, ‘modern moral subjects’. The secondary influence comes from Perry’s favourite form of art, early Renaissance painting.
Each of the six images, to a greater or lesser extent, pays homage to a religious work. Including Masaccio’sExpulsion from the Garden of Eden, Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece, Rogier Van de Weyden’sLamentation and three different paintings of The Annunciation by Carlo Crivelli, Grünewald and Robert Campin. The images also reference the pictorial display of wealth and status in The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck and Mr & Mrs Andrews by Thomas Gainsborough. Woven into each tapestry are snatches of text, each one in the voice of a participant in the scene illustrated. Each image also features a small dog, reminiscent of Hogarth’s beloved pug, Trump.
The Vanity of Small Differences is at Victoria Miro from 7 June - 11 August 2012.
Channel 4’s new three-part series, All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry starts on Tuesday 5 June at 10pm. Future Previous Next
