The New Art Gallery Walsall
Februaruy to May 2012
Extra Special People, Crit Club, 2010, Courtesy Eastside Projects/Extra Special People.
Design by Stereographic
Cover Image ~ Laura Oldfield Ford, Leytonstone 1995 1999 2012, Pen on paper, 2010/11 © The Artist. Courtesy Hales Gallery, London
Artists’ Studio
What’s On October — January 2011 Exhibitions
- Zarina Bhimji: Yellow Patch - There is a Place..... - Transmitter Receiver - Blue Skies, nothing but blue skies.... - Rima: ‘A Travesty of Nature’ - Make Room - Martin Parr: Black Country Stories
Group Occupation Artist Residences
6 March – 31 March 2012 | 10 April – 5 May 2012 | 8 May – 2 June 2012
Visit our new website: thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk Join the blog, Facebook us or just follow on Twitter @newartgallery Zarina Bhimji is supported by:
Bob and Roberta Smith & the Epstein Archive is supported by:
The New Art Gallery Walsall has teamed up with Birmingham-based Extra Special People/Eastside Projects to host Group Occupation, a series of three, short, interconnecting residencies.
Studio programme supported by:
Three artists will share the Artists’ Studio space for a month at a time and develop new work independently and/or collectively. Nine artists will participate in the project altogether and at the end of each residency period the artists will be opening the door to the studio to share their new ideas.
Damien Hirst is supported by:
Martin Parr is supported by:
The gallery is accredited by:
extraspecialpeople.org
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Open studio events and artists’ talks: Saturday 31 March, 2-4pm | Saturday 5 May, 2-4pm | Saturday 2 June, 2-4pm Free – all welcome
Zarina Bhimji Yellow Patch 20 January — 14 April 2012 Floor 3, Gallery 1 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present Zarina Bhimji’s latest film Yellow Patch with makes its world première simultaneously in Walsall and at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. The film was shot on location in Mumbai, Kutch and Gujarat. Inspired by trade and migration routes across the Indian Ocean between India and Africa, and focusing primarily on landscapes and interiors, the artist has created a poetic and evocative exploration of place. Yellow Patch demonstrates Zarina’s interest in space, her characteristic attention to detail and a powerful and sensitive handling of light and sound. Yellow Patch was co-funded by The New Art Gallery Walsall, Outset Contemporary Art Fund and de Appel arts centre with executive producers Artsadmin. Additional support was provided by Arts Council England, Framestore and individual donors.
Zarina Bhimji, Yellow Patch, 2011, film, screen grabs, courtesy of the artist
A new monograph on Zarina Bhimji has been published by Whitechapel Gallery, Kunstmuseum Bern and The New Art Gallery Walsall with Ridinghouse. It will be available in the Gallery Shop at a special exhibition price of £19.95 (full retail price, £24.95).
Preview
Thursday 19 January 2012, 6-8pm Free, all welcome.
In Conversation Saturday 28 January, 3.30pm Join Zarina Bhimji for an informal talk about her new work. Book your free place in advance by calling 01922 654400.
There is a Place... Christiane Baumgartner, Graham Chorlton, Laura Oldfield Ford, George Shaw, Barry Thompson, Paul Winstanley Paul Winstanley, Veil 26, 2010, Oil on canvas. © the artist. Courtesy Alan Cristea Gallery, London
20 January — 14 April 2012 Floor 3, Galleries 2, 3 & 4 There is a Place...brings together a group of artists who explore our psychic connectivity to landscape. The drawings, paintings and prints within the exhibition reveal 'a sense of place' as seemingly generic urban and suburban views evoke personal and collective memories. The reverie of teenage hideouts, suburban housing estates and motorway junctions, each depicted in painstaking detail, are at once familiar yet unnerving for all. The artists in this exhibition capture the most overlooked and peripheral spaces of our towns and cities, those unremarkable and unclaimed spaces that we each make our own.
Preview
George Shaw, The End of Time, 2008-9, enamel on board, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre © The Artist. Courtesy Wilkinson Gallery, London
Thursday 19 January 2012, 6-8pm Free. Family, friends and colleagues welcome.
In Conversation Saturday 25 February, 2pm Laura Oldfield Ford will be discussing her newly commissioned work and launching the new, Walsall edition of her fanzine Savage Messiah. Saturday 17 March, 2pm Join Exhibitions Curator Helen Jones and Graham Chorlton for an informal tour of the exhibition. Book your free place in advance by calling 01922 654400
John Stezaker, Pair V, Collage © the artist. Courtesy the Arts Council Collection
Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of Collage An Arts Council touring exhibition 4 May – 30 June 2012 Floor 3 Collage is perhaps the default medium of the 21st century: it is common place now to sample, appropriate and mix material from across a vast range of media. New technology has made it easy to assemble and customise images, sound and text, and publish it instantly via the internet. Transmitter/Receiver will not only feature traditional collage on paper, but painting, sculpture, film and slide projections to explore ways in which the idea of collage has developed since the early 20th century. All the works in the exhibition are drawn from the Arts Council Collection. Artists include: Eileen Agar, David Batchelor, Ian Breakwell, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Steve Claydon, Richard Hamilton, Margaret Harrison, Susan Hiller, Idris Khan, Laurence Kavanagh, Linder, Ben Nicholson, Chris Ofili, Eduardo Paolozzi, Roland Penrose, Grayson Perry, Jo Spence, John Stezaker, Tony Swain and Mark Titchner. An Arts Council Collection exhibition from Southbank Centre, London.
Preview
Thursday 3 May 2012, 6-8pm Free, all welcome. In Conversation Saturday 12 May 2012, 2pm Join artist Idris Khan for an introduction to his work Saturday 12 May 2012, 2pm Caroline Douglas, Head of Arts Council Collection and curator of Transmitter/Receiver will lead a tour of the exhibition. Linder, Untitled, 1981, Collage, 31 x 18.8cm © the artist. Courtesy the Arts Council Collection
Grayson Perry, Spirit Jar, 1994, earthenware, 45.7 x 20.3 x 20.3cm © the artist. Courtesy the Arts Council Collection
Epstein’s Rima:
The Garman Ryan Collection
'A Travesty of Nature'
On display all year round
4 February — 2 June 2012
Make Room2
Interventions into the Garman Ryan Collection until 22 September 2012 This exhibition uses some of the contemporary works acquired by the gallery in recent years to make interventions within the Garman Ryan Collection’s themed rooms.
Jacob Epstein, Sketch of Rima, (1923), Collection of Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery)
Bob and Roberta Smith’s Epstein Archive Gallery, photograph by Katja Ogrin
In 1922, Epstein was asked to create a memorial sculpture for the popular writer W.H. Hudson. His designs are recorded in a unique sketchbook which is kept in the Henry Moore Institute Archive in Leeds. Described as a frenzied out pouring of ideas, the sketchbook is unparalleled in Epstein’s career. It was circulated amongst the Memorial Committee in 1923, but has remained virtually unknown to a wider public.
The Garman Ryan Collection is a personal collection of art and artefacts given to Walsall by Sir Jacob Epstein’s widow, Kathleen Garman and her close friend, sculptor, Sally Ryan. This intimate display includes works by many famous artists including Van Gogh, Lucian Freud, Monet, Constable and Picasso. For more information about the gallery collections and Jacob Epstein, visit thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk.
The final sculpture is undoubtedly Epstein’s most controversial work. Though it appears inoffensive to twenty-first century eyes, the relief panel was subject to intensely heated and bitter debate, the likes of which the art-world had never before seen (and is unlikely to witness again). In Conversation Saturday 26th May 2012, 2pm Curator, Elin Morgan, talks about Epstein’s Rima: the design process and controversy it caused.
Martin Creed, Work No.264, Two Protrusions from a Wall, 2001 Collection The New Art Gallery Walsall
Displaying a selection of Jacob Epstein’s preparatory drawings for the W.H. Hudson Memorial (1925), Hyde Park, London, this exhibition provides a rare opportunity to explore Epstein’s creative imagination, as well as delving into the extreme controversy that surrounded his work.
Bob and Roberta Smith’s Epstein Archive Gallery Discover the extraordinary story of Sir Jacob Epstein and his family. After a 2 year residency with The New Art Gallery Walsall, contemporary artists Bob and Roberta Smith have transformed the Archive Gallery on Floor 1. Working in collaboration with Archive Curator Neil Lebeter, they have rifled through the letters, photographs and documents held in the basement of The New Art Gallery Walsall, creating new works and short films in response to what was found. Displaying contemporary art and archives side by side, Bob and Roberta Smith’s Epstein Archive Gallery showcases a 2 year journey into love, sorrow and obsession.
Andrew Gifford, Walsall, Looking Towards St Mathews Church, Oil on board. Image courtesy of the artist
Martin Parr, England. Walsall. The Black Country. The Royal wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William. Partying at The Lion Club, 2011. © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos. Commissioned by Multistory
Martin Parr Black Country Stories 20 January — 7 April 2012 Floor 1 Black Country Stories brings renowned Magnum photographer, Martin Parr, on a photographic journey across the Black Country. Starting in 2010 and finishing in 2014, Martin is visiting markets, temples, factories, social clubs, tea dances, dog training classes, summer fetes and a whole mixture of other places in Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Dudley. You can view the photographs Martin took in Walsall in 2011 on this special display. Over the last 12 months he visited local leather and metal factories and met the people that keep these industries alive; various places of worship that reflect the cultural diversity of our borough; experienced our vibrant social scene; sampled traditional Black Country foods and joined our Royal Wedding celebrations! You can also listen to a selection of stories from Walsall residents talking about their lives, work, families, and experiences of the Black Country and share your own experiences in our ‘memory wall’. A final exhibition will take place at the gallery in 2014, followed by presentations in Wolverhampton and Dudley. Black Country Stories is produced by Multistory, a community arts organisation based in West Bromwich.
Blue skies, nothing but blue skies... 20 January — 12 May 2012 Floor 4 This exhibition, drawn from Walsall’s Collections, brings together artists who literally look to the skies! Working in a wide range of media and with different perspectives and priorities in mind, each of them share a concern with the power of the sky and its ability to add drama and expression to their work. Georges Braque, Phil Brooks, John Constable, Francis Dodd, Edward M Elliot, E M Flint, Andrew Gifford, David Gunning, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Hughes, Avan de Leeuw, Matt & Ross, Dawn Shorten, David Thorpe and Wolfgang Tillmans
Drop in with the family anytime, open all day.
Pop into the gallery anytime, or come to one of our organised family workshops that are drop-in, you can turn up any time between the start and the end times, and everyone of any age can join in subject to space. Stay as long as you like. DiSCO is a safe place for families to explore art together. You can touch, look, draw, play and create to help you understand the artworks on display. Dress up, design a 3d townscape or create some computer art.
February
Free Regular Family Events
Flying machines
Baby Palace
Tuesday 14 – Friday 17 February The exhibition on floor 4 is all about skies. We’d like to explore and make some of the different things you’d see in a sky. It could be a bird, a plane, a rocket or an insect. We’re making something different each day.
April Workshops for April are inspired by the There is a Place..... exhibition on floor 3.
Free Family Workshops
All workshop activities run 1-3pm on each date. No need to book, just drop in subject to space.
2012 is all about famous artists inspiring the family workshops. Drop in, have a go, learn a new skill and find out about each artist that is a focus for each workshop.
Special Event Stargazing
Stargazing event in partnership with the BBC in January 2012 at the gallery. Check out the bbc website for details as they are released - bbc.co.uk
The gallery has lift access to all floors and is buggy friendly, breastfeeding friendly and has babychange facilities on the ground floor.
Make a Street Sign Wednesday 4 & Thursday 5 April
Create your own new street signs or a sign for a walk for Walsall, for you and the gallery. Are there any new signs you’d like to see?
Fridays: 24 February, 30 March, 25 May Three sessions each day: 10.30-11.30am, 12-1pm, 2-3pm
Take some time to relax in the multi sensory environment and explore smells, sights and senses with your baby at your pace. This is a great chance to meet other new parents and share your experiences. Please book in advance on 01922 654 400.
Art Start
NEW
Wednesdays: 11am-12noon 1 February, 7 March, 2 May, 30 May
These are sessions for pre school children 1 year old upwards with their carers. Come along and explore an artwork in the gallery and make things together to support your child in being creative.
Art Cart
Pop Up Walsall
The Art Cart comes out every weekend and all school holidays to help you explore our collections. It has different activities and moves somewhere new in the gallery every month.
Pop in for Pop up Walsall, its right up your street. Create your own pop up street scene.
Frisky Bags
Wednesday 11 & Thursday 12 April
These are rucksacks stuffed full of activities to help you explore around the gallery together as a family. Ask to borrow one from reception. Great for children 6-12 year olds.
Events Young People’s Days
11am – 4pm each date Free, no need to book, just drop in!
Face of Fascination Saturday 11 February
Using new technologies, young people will be able to take photographs of each other and objects that they find fascinating around the gallery, print them out and manipulate them in order to produce an abstract image of themselves.
What is a Gallery? Saturday 3 March
Young people are encouraged to explore ideas around what the gallery means to them. The results will be a set of posters which will then be displayed in the gallery.
Social Network Saturday 7 April
Young people will document aspects of the gallery. Photographs, reviews, short films and drawings will be made and exported straight to the gallery’s blog and shared on social media networks.
Collage Party! Saturday 12 May
Turn Up, Tune In & Cut Out! Collage Party is about everyone making collage. Collage Party invites you to cut up and stick down. Come along and start a Collage Revolution with artist Liz Rowe!
There is Another Place...
Behind Scenes Tours
Students from the Composition Department at Birmingham Conservatoire present their own insights into There is a Place... exhibition in this unique afternoon concert. The composers have taken a variety of sources of inspiration from the exhibition and will perform their original pieces of music throughout the gallery. Expect the unexpected!
Join us on any of the above dates for a fascinating tour of the gallery spaces that everyday visitors can’t see. To book your free place call 01922 654404, places are limited.
Peregrine Watch
Sharing day on the theme of Live Art and Health with a unique performance by artist Bobby Baker, entitled Mad Gyms and Kitchens. Also featuring Mark Storor, Sean Burn and chaired by Kate Broom. Presented by Windows with a Difference, a new Black Country Mental Health network.
Saturday 17 March, 2pm - 5pm
Friday 30 March, 10am – 3pm Meet a real peregrine falcon, barn owl and kestrel at the gallery and up on floor 4 you can watch and record the movements of the peregrines nesting in Walsall. A free event with Black Country Biodiversity Group, Walsall’s Countryside rangers, West Midlands Bird Club and local RSPB all linked to the Blue Skies exhibition.
Vaisakhi
Saturday 21 April, 11am - 4pm This is the sixth year that we bring you our annual ground shaking, feet tapping, family friendly free for all Vaisakhi day, packed with live music and dance performances, family workshops, mendhi hand patterns and much more. Everyone welcome!
Sat 18 Feb & Sat 28 April, 2pm
Select Edit; Public Private Wednesday 29 February, 2pm - 7pm
Booking fee £5.00. Performance only £2.50. To book your ticket please email windowswithadifference@gmail.com
Audio Described Tour Saturday 3 March, 2pm
Join us for a free audio described talk on a selection of artworks from There is a Place... exhibition. No need to book, just drop in!
Coming Soon
Damien Hirst Art Library & Archive
February
The Writing Squad For Young Writers in Walsall
Creative Play
Friday 3 & Saturday 4 Feb, 1-4pm
Get ready for half term. If you’ve been to our family workshops you’ll know what to expect from this. Its an afternoon of playing with different ideas and materials from the range of family workshops that we’ve run in the past few years. Come and enjoy yourselves.
Learn to Knit Day
Saturday 4 February, 1-4pm
Saturday 7 Jan, 4 Feb, 3 March, 7 April, 5 May 2012, 10.30am – 12pm
Walsall Writing Squad is for young people aged 8 to 12 who are interested in creative writing. Try lots of fun writing activities with professional writers David Calcutt and Maeve Clarke. Sessions cost £12 for 3 sessions, or £5 per session if paid on the day. To reserve a place please contact Joanne Penn on 0121 246 2770 or joanne@writingwestmidlands.org.
Come along and try your hand at knitting. Whether you’re new or experienced we’re keen to see you, to make links with each other and be inspired by the drawing of a New Born Lamb by Delacroix.
The Walsall Writing Squad is a project of Writing West Midlands in association with The New Art Gallery Walsall.
March
20 April – 19 May 2012
Creative writing Saturday 10 March, 1-4pm
Inspired by the exhibition Yellow Patch, this is an opportunity to work with a creative writer, Philip Monks and artist Sean Burn on visual poetry.
May
Learn to Knit Day Saturday 12 May, 1-4pm
A second chance to try your hand at knitting during adult learners week.
Inspiring Teachers University of Wolverhampton Year 2 students on the BEd degree in Primary Teacher Education at The University of Wolverhampton are working in partnership with The New Art Gallery Walsall to develop their knowledge and understanding of teaching art in the primary school. Students learn how to use gallery displays to plan an effective programme of work, develop their own research, art skills and knowledge of art galleries. Using The Garman Ryan Collection students develop artistic ideas to produce final pieces of artwork for this exhibition.
6 October 2012 — 26 October 2013 The New Art Gallery Walsall is gearing up to present a year-long exhibition of key works by acclaimed artist Damien Hirst, as part of ARTIST ROOMS On Tour. This ground-breaking, new display will feature Damien’s sculptures, paintings and prints presented within the Garman Ryan Galleries. The display will be accompanied by a series of inspired satellite exhibitions, events and activities through the course of the year. ARTIST ROOMS On Tour is an inspired partnership with the Art Fund - the fundraising charity for works of art, making the ARTIST ROOMS collection of international contemporary art available to galleries throughout the UK. ARTIST ROOMS is jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland and was established through The d’Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments.
Visit thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk for the latest news about this exciting project.
Damien Hirst, Away from the Flock, 1994. Mixed media, 980 x 1540 x 525mm. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Acquired jointly through The d’Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund, 2008 © Damien Hirst and Hirst Holdings Ltd. DACS 2011.
Free Adult workshops
Garman Ryan galleries will be closed from 24 September – 5 October 2012 (inclusive)
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Education
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