Art exhibitions

[Flosshilde]

Some galleries/museums have made attempts to deal with the large amount of works that are 'in storage' & not on display. The National Gallery in London, for example, has lesser works displayed in the basement galleries (or did the last time I looked), & Tate Britain re-hangs every year, so the display changes regularly. Glasgow Museums has a public access store. I'm sure there are many other examples across the UK.

As for 'hi-jacking' space, any museum worth its salt will have a mixture of permanent displays, changing & temporary exhibitions from its own reserves, exhibitions of new work & loan exhibitions (the latter two dependent on funding). It's the only way to remain interesting & to offer visitors something new (not for the sake of novelty, but to ensure that they make more than one visit, especially to small museums).

[johncorrigan]

I'm seldom in Aberdeen. I tend to head south or west rather than north and east but today my wife and I were in the Granite City and chanced on the City's Art Gallery. It is a veritable feast. The ground floor is modern work - Paolozzi, Hepworth, Emin, Kenny Hunter and Alison Watt among others. In the upper gallery works by Scottish artists such as Cowie, Peploe and Caddell share with Nash, Eardley, Spencer, Leget, Renoir. It was hard to know where to look. It felt really well chosen. There's a wonderful collection of watercolours - more Nash, Rennie McIntosh but then tucked away in the old paintings section a glorious Breugel looking for all the world as modern as anything on show, for all its four hundred and odd years.

http://www.aagm.co.uk/web/MultimediaFiles/peter-brueghel-panel.jpg

If you're up there it's well worth a visit.

[Lateralthinking1]

So you can see Hepworth from Aberdeen to St Ives. Anyone know of any exhibits beyond these points? Is there another artist who has such reach in these isles?

[Flosshilde]

I would agree with John in his assessment of Aberdeen's collection - to my mind it's miles ahead of Glasgow's in contemporary work. I think that Glasgow rather rested on its 19th century laurels & didn't put much investment into building up a strong 20th century collection (one or two coups aside - like the Dali 'Vision of St John' - which has provided them with a substantial income from reproduction, unfortunately not put back into acquisitions). & Glasgow is especially weak in sculpture.

[mercia]

So you can see Hepworth from Aberdeen to St Ives. Anyone know of any exhibits beyond these points?

wikipedia tells me this is in Washington DC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Figure-hepworth.JPG

and that there are several in Otterlo, Netherlands
for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KM..._(Trezion).JPG

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes, thanks. I was thinking more of Britain. Is there an artist, for example, whose work can be found on Shetlands and the Scillies?

[mercia]

oh I see

http://www.paulbloomer.com/shetland/index.htm

http://www.petermacdonaldsmith.co.uk/

[Lateralthinking1]

These are good. Now we need a twinning initiative. Tresco and Scalloway.

[Flosshilde]

Yes, thanks. I was thinking more of Britain. Is there an artist, for example, whose work can be found on Shetlands and the Scillies?

Not quite as far as the Shetlands, but works by Hepworth & other St Ives artists can be found in the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness. http://www.pierartscentre.com/index.html

[Lateralthinking1]

Excellent. Thanks Flosshilde.

[handsomefortune]

btw - mercia, i can't locate your original post, on a recent thread about film ....just to say thanks v much for the link to the 70s, tom stoppard play. how fascinating, the central character reminded me of a sort of james bond ....but of 'manners & ethics' .... rather than the usual bond aims, objectives, gems & trophies. the play should be on dvd of course. (i wasn't so keen on the film about artists, in ye olde nordic period drama that you also posted ...though fantastic lighting/costumes/set design, well worth seeing)

[mercia]

you're welcome .............. I don't remember doing that ...............
memory like a ......................... whatever they're called ..........................

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There's an exhibition of work by Margaret and Paul Hockney in Bridlington Old Town at present. Are they good, or are they living off their famous brother's name? I don't know, but Margaret Hockney's exhibits are very different and deserve to be better known.

[mercia]

not sure I quite understand how these were done
it says without a camera

http://www.galleryforty-nine.com/artists/Margaret_Hockney/Margaret_Hockney.php

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Art-runs-family-hi-tech-Hockneys/story-13471095-detail/story.html

[Serial_Apologist]

not sure I quite understand how these were done
it says without a camera

http://www.galleryforty-nine.com/artists/Margaret_Hockney/Margaret_Hockney.php

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.c...ail/story.html

I don't know; but if the Frieze Art Fair currently on in London is displaying a speed boat, I suppose one hads to define Ms Hockney's utterly unfascinating pics of vegetables as art?

https://www.friezeartfair.com