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Petersfield Museum & Art Gallery

Out of This World! Space Race Toys

Spring-Heel Jacks, c.1960s Gordon Rushmer - Winter Kale, near South Harting, 2020, Watercolour on paper ©The Artist

Gordon Rushmer - Late Light, Bosham, 2020 Watercolour on paper ©The Artist

7 December 2022 – 28 January 2023

Kids Go Free! Over the holiday period, enjoy a family visit to Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery. On display in the Museum Learning Space, experience a blast from the past with a presentation of over 20 original space-inspired toys, games, books and annuals. Everything from ray guns, space patrol walkie-talkies and SpringHell Jacks ‘Moon Shoes’. The 1950s and 1960s saw intense competition between the USA and the USSR as they vied to master space. On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 landed the first two humans on the Moon. This progress in - and preoccupation with - space exploration inspired both toy manufacturers and television programme makers. The new and mysterious frontier of outer space allowed complete freedom of imagination and creativity. Dan Dare, a futuristic space pilot, originally portrayed in the Eagle comic of the 1950s, was one of the first characters in this space toy boom. The commercial potential of producing toys and games linked to programmes such as ‘Doctor Who’ (first broadcast in 1963) and ‘Thunderbirds’ (first aired in 1965) was also quickly realised.

Gordon Rushmer: A World in Watercolour

6 December 2022 – 25 February 2023

We are delighted to announce a new exhibition at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery. Gordon Rushmer is a well-known and highly regarded landscape painter. Opening this exhibition in early December is apt as Rushmer notes ‘I’ve always been most at home in barren windswept places and winter has always been my most fruitful season.’

The paintings selected for this exhibition celebrate Rushmer’s keen sensitivity to the places and the landscapes within which he works, and his command of working in watercolour. British artists first began to explore the aesthetic qualities of watercolours in the latter part of the eighteenth century. For Rushmer the period from the late 1800s to the end of the Second World War was a golden age and work of painters including Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), Evelyn Dunbar (19061960), Thomas Hennell (1903-1945), John Nash (1893-1977), Charles Knight (1901-1990) and Stanley Badmin (1906-1989) offer continual inspiration.

Some of these artists were also war artists, as was Rushmer himself. His success as a landscape painter is matched by his reputation as a war artist from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. His war paintings were shown at the Imperial War Museum in 2008 and in 2011 his painting ‘The Burning of Gornji Vakuf, Bosnia’ (1997) was included in the exhibition ‘Watercolour’ at Tate Britain.

Born in Petersfield, Rushmer graduated from Farnham School of Art and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. But painting is his passion, as is the Hampshire and Sussex landscape, which continues to be his main subject matter. Rushmer’s approach to painting is rooted in his experience of the place. Rushmer describes how he ‘walks the hills and countryside, preferably on my own. I have a camera for those fleeting moments of light and sketchbooks that fit down the back of my rucksack. Some pieces are in my head for months. I design each work in the abstract, weighing the shapes, colour masses and at the same time organising the compositional stresses.

I take liberties with compositional content, often restructuring reality, removing elements I don’t want, and imposing my mood, so sometimes a piece may say more about me than the subject I have portrayed.

Visiting Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery For Opening hours and Admission prices – please see the website for more details - To book or for information about events, visit www. petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

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