What's on: February — May 2017
The New Art Gallery Walsall
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OVER
2.5 MILLION visitors since opening
OVER
150,000 educational visits OVER
Supporting Regional, National and International
ARTISTS
30,000 participants in community and cultural events
45%
FUNDED
by Walsall Council
ICONIC BUILDING designed by Stirling Prize winners Caruso St John
55%
FUNDED
by Arts Council and self-generated income
Home of the renowned
GARMAN RYAN COLLECTION featuring artists such as Van Gogh, Monet and Constable
Permanent Collection
FOUNDED IN 1892 now with over
3000 ARTWORKS
Anchoring the
REGENERATION
of Walsall town centre and supporting local businesses
Art Library with over titles
6000
Archives with over items
4500
Welcome To The New Art Gallery Walsall Designed by Caruso St John architects The New Art Gallery Walsall opened in February 2000 in the heart of Walsall town centre. Our renowned Garman Ryan Collection was gifted to the Borough in 1973 by Kathleen Garman, widow of the great 20th century sculptor Jacob Epstein. Kathleen was originally from nearby Wednesbury, and although she had spent much of her life in London, wanted to give something back to the Black Country where she had grown up. The Collection includes 365 important works by celebrated artists including Epstein, Van Gogh, Monet, Constable, Picasso, Degas, Matisse and Lucian Freud, alongside a wide range of artworks from across the world. Our Permanent Collection, formed in 1892, has over 3000 works, from Victorian genre paintings to contemporary installations. The changing exhibition programmes focus on the very best in international contemporary art and our Artists’ Studio and Artist Development programmes support artists from across the region. Our education and events programme provides a broad cultural experience for everyone.
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Twitter @newartgallery Cover Image ~ Idris Khan, Autonomy, 2016, 3 stamped glass sheets, aluminium, black ink 156 x 140 x 18 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London. Š Idris Khan
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CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
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Idris Khan, Seven Times, 2010, Sandblasted oil-sealed blue steel cubes, dimensions variable Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London. © Idris Khan
Idris Khan A World Within 3 February – 7 May 2017 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present a major survey exhibition by artist Idris Khan. The exhibition will bring together significant bodies of work drawing on a range of interests including classical music, the history of art, literature, philosophy and religion. Whether working with photography, painting, sculpture, moving image or installation, Khan employs a continual process of creation and erasure, adding layers upon layers, concealing and revealing to explore ideas around time, memory, creativity and spirituality. This exhibition is particularly special for both the artist and the Gallery as Khan grew up in Walsall. The earliest work White Court (2001) is a photograph of a squash court wall, taken at his former primary school where his late mother used to play. This image demonstrates Khan's first fascination with photography's inherent relationship to painting. Two new layered glass paintings will be included in the exhibition, as well as a sculpture seen for the first time in the UK.
Idris Khan, The Beginning, 2016 and Installation, Idris Khan | Rhythms, 30 April – 25 June 2016. Thomas Schulte Berlin. Courtesy the Artist and Thomas Schulte, Berlin. © Idris Khan
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with an essay by Oliver Basciano. It is designed by Herman Lelie in close collaboration with the artist.
Idris Khan was born in Birmingham in 1978 and his family moved to Walsall that same year. After studying at Walsall College and the University of Derby, he completed his Masters degree at the Royal College of Art, London in 2004. He has exhibited widely, at museums and galleries nationally and internationally. He has recently completed work on the design and production of a major public monument in Abu Dhabi. Idris Khan is represented by Victoria Miro, London, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Sean Kelly, New York, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
Preview Thursday 2 February, 6-8pm Join us in the company of the artist. All welcome.
In Conversation Thursday 23 March, 6.30pm Join the artist for a talk about his work. £3. Booking essential.
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Rachel Goodyear, Urchins 2, 2016, pencil, charcoal, watercolour and ink on paper, 72 x 53 cm. Private Collection. Courtesy Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Rachel Goodyear 26 May — 3 September 2017 The New Art Gallery is delighted to present a brand new body of work by British artist Rachel Goodyear. Goodyear is renowned for her drawing-based practice which hints at a world of the unconscious mind. Her cast of characters, sourced from old magazines, books and anonymous photographs, often appear within claustrophobic spaces or are set against heavy and brooding washes of ink and watercolour. They are beautiful, intense and psychologically charged. Preview Thursday 25 May, 6-8pm. All welcome.
For her exhibition in Walsall, alongside her drawings, Goodyear will create a brand new immersive installation incorporating projected animations and sound. Extending the dream-like pictorial space found in her drawings, the installation will enable the viewer to enter an environment that is both alluring and fearful whilst hovering between the familiar and the surreal. Rachel Goodyear lives and works in Manchester. Recent solo exhibitions include The Lowry, Salford (2016); The Drawing Center, New York (2015-16) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2011).
A publication will accompany the exhibition and a specially commissioned limited edition lithograph will be available for sale.
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Soheila Sokhanvari, Conquest of the Garden, 2016, Egg tempera on calf vellum, 15.5x20.5 cm
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Soheila Sokhanvari 26 May — 3 September 2017 Soheila Sokhanvari is an Iranian-born artist whose multidisciplinary work weaves layers of political histories with bizarre, humorous and mysterious narratives that are then left to the viewer’s own sensitivity to complete. Sokhanvari is drawn to traumas that linger in the collective consciousness or cause mass amnesia, and yet resist conventional representation.
inexpressible events, particularly with reference to Iran. Magic realism and use of metaphor in autocratic countries has historically permitted writers and artists to allow the meaning to lie between the lines and hence escape the limitations of being pinned down. It is both a gesture of protection and arena for exploration.
Sokhanvari is also interested in the use of metaphor to speak about
Sokhanvari, currently a studio artist at Wsying Arts Centre (since 2013), received her MFA from Goldsmiths College in 2011, postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2006 and BA Art History and Fine Arts from Anglia Ruskin University in 2005.
Preview Thursday 25 May, 6-8pm. All welcome.
www.soheila-sokhanvari.com
COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS
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PEOPLE’S CHOICE PEOPLE’S CHOICE Opens 1 March 2017 To celebrate the 125th anniversary of our Permanent Collection in 2017 and the launch of our new online collections database we have invited the public to curate this year’s annual collections display! Presented in our themed collections galleries are the most popular works from our Permanent Collection, as voted for by the public. Expect to see a range of works in a variety of media, both historic and contemporary, reflecting the diversity of our collecting since 1892.
WORKS F ROM
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Tate
Preview Wednesday 1 March, 6-8pm Join us for the exhibition preview. All welcome. Exhibition Tour Saturday 11 March, 2pm Join our Collections Curator for an informal tour of the exhibition. Free, All welcome.
LAST CHANCE TO SEE Works from Tate into The Garman Ryan Collection Until 12 February 2017 Including works by Raoul Dufy, Cedric Morris, John Nash and Picasso.
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Herbert Wright, Walsall as seen from Peal Street, 1958, Oil on canvas
COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS
Scenes of Walsall 18 February – 16 July 2017 What are the famous landmarks of Walsall? How has the landscape of Walsall changed over time? What will the landscape of Walsall look like in the future? Many scenes of Walsall have been collected since the establishment of Walsall’s public art collection in 1892. In this exhibition, to help celebrate the Permanent Collection’s 125th birthday, a range of these are on display, from a lithograph of Walsall High Street in 1845 to contemporary photography. Special launch event Saturday 18 February, 1-3pm Join us for a vintage themed tea party with music and games!
We would like local families to participate by contributing their memories and creating their own ‘Scenes of Walsall’ to be added to the display. There will also be a series of workshops in The Family Gallery alongside the exhibition, 1-3pm. Free, drop-in. All welcome. Saturday 18 March - Rag Rug making Saturday 8 April - Traditional games Saturday 20 May - Peg Doll making
Reminiscence Sessions Saturday 22 April, 11am, 1pm or 3pm Join us for an hour long guided reminiscence sessions.
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Andrew Gillespie, Rocky Monument, 2015, silkscreen on cast concrete, 30 x 20 x 5cm. Courtesy the artist.
EXHIBITIONS
Andrew Gillespie Anti-Scrape 3 February — 23 April 2017 Andrew Gillespie’s work revolves around the application of print and the appropriation of forms and imagery lifted from popular culture. For his solo exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall, he has created a new constellation of objects; an urban drift of materials and allusions to everyday experience.
remnants of another time and place. The ubiquitous image of Katsushika Hokusai’s early nineteenth century woodcut, The Great Wave Off Shore of Kanagawa, is reproduced, fragmented and transformed.
Visitors are invited to move through an architectural landscape, looking at, in, down and through the work. Screen-printed, cast concrete fragments cling to utilitarian security fences, which act as chassis for
Elsewhere, objects recall a recent visit the artist made to New York. Memories of discarded clothes trodden, almost printed, into pavement appear here like fossils. Flattened and removed from the body’s form, they suggest medieval tombs, while reproduced mementos question how a trip is memorialized.
Preview Thursday 2 February, 6-8pm Join us in the company of the artist. All welcome.
In Conversation Saturday 25 March, 2pm Join the artist and Curator, Zoë Lippett, for a talk about the exhibition. Free, all welcome.
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Joanne Masding, Slabs and Facsimiles 1, 2016, plaster and steel. Image courtesy Jules Lister.
EXHIBITIONS
Joanne Masding 5 May — 30 July 2017 Joanne Masding is interested in the ways in which we perceive and experience objects, particularly within an increasingly digital and immaterial world that is saturated with images and information. She works across a wide range of media, including traditional sculptural materials such as plaster and clay, combined with more contemporary media and processes including digital animation, holographic vinyl and computer screen filters. Her interest in museum collections extends to the ways in which they are mediated through display strategies and through
reproduction in different contexts, raising questions about value, content and authenticity. Display technologies such as LCD screens and TV monitors become an essential sculptural component rather than a peripheral mode of communication and in contrast, the artist also reveals evidence of creation by hand.
In Conversation Saturday 17 June, 2pm Join the artist for an informal tour of the exhibition.
Joanne Masding (b 1985) lives and works in Birmingham. Recent exhibitions include Image, Music, Text, IMT Gallery, London (2016), stuffs wander off, a shape steps in, Two Queens, Leicester (2016) and Shiny Surface Amnesty, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent (2015).
Joanne will be creating new works for her solo show in Walsall. www.joannemasding.com
FAMILIES AND EVENTS
Drop in anytime
The Family Gallery is a space for children and their carers to explore together, to have fun and to learn through creative play. It provides an introduction to using the gallery and offers ideas about engaging with art works.
Open all day
Regular Family Activities Baby Palace: Multi- sensory environment for babies 0-18months Art Start: Sessions for pre school toddlers, up to 4 years, who are starting to explore art, creativity and mark making. Each session is different.
Pop in to see us and find out what is happening.
Activity Bags
School Holiday Workshops
Borrow one of our free activity or trail bags, available at reception:
Tuesday Tots: Toddlers up
Tod Bags: Ages 3-5 years with carers Frisky Bags: Ages 6-12 years
to 4 years with carers
Wednesday Workshops for all: All ages Thursday Skill Day: Families with children 4 years and older Saturday Playdate: All ages
Visit the website for more information on all events or to download our families leaflet: www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk www.pinterest.com/NAGEducation Instagram: thenewartgallerywalsall
Twitter: @newartgallery Check out our calendar at the back to find out when all our events are on. We have events throughout the school holidays, come and see us!
EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
Adult Workshops Silkscreen printing with Andrew Gillespie
Understanding Art: Arts & Science
Join artist Andrew Gillespie for a silkscreen workshop exploring different surfaces and objects for printing. Experiment with printing onto unfamiliar surfaces such as plaster and wood, whilst having the opportunity to learn about Gillespie’s practice and processes. All materials are provided, no previous experience required.
A four week course exploring the connections between arts and science using the varied collections and exhibitions of four regional galleries.
Saturday 4 March, 10am-4pm
£25/£20 concs: students, unwaged, 60+ Places are limited and must be booked in advance on 01922 654400
Teacher CPD Teacher’s Coffee Morning Monday 10 April, 10am-1.30pm
Learn about our forward programme and what we have to offer secondary schools, whilst having the opportunity to network with other local teachers. Places are limited and must be booked in advance on 01922 654400.
Thursdays 9, 16, 23 & 30 March
£20/£16 concs: students, unwaged, 60+ (All 4 sessions). Booking essential, visit: www.ikon-gallery.org or call 0121 248 071
Family Events Book Fair
Saturday 18 March, 10am-4pm
Pre-degree level 3 and 4 Foundation in Art and Design students from Walsall College artist book fair.
Vaisakhi 2017
Saturday 29 April, 12pm-4pm
Join us at the gallery to celebrate the birth of Khalsa and Harvest time in Punjab. Enjoy the live music and traditional performances and have some mehndi on your hand as a reminder of the occasion.
Visit our website for more information on all our events, talks and workshops.
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ARTISTS’ PROJECTS
Patrick Goodall Tool Workshop 4 — 15 April 2017
Steve Evans, Rue Gallilee, Ink on Paper. Photo by Neil David Roberts.
Steve Evans 10 January — 12 February
Patrick Goodall’s residency will explore how tools facilitate production, extending the hand of the artist, mechanic or model maker as well as the DIY hobbyist. A collector of hammers and other hand tools, Goodall will transfer the contents of his tool shed to the studio, creating work with and about tools and ‘clocking in’ each day as a repetitive action and performance. Studio weekender Sat 8 April, 12-4pm & Sun 9 April, 1-3pm Join Patrick as he opens out Tool Workshop for the weekend, sharing work in progress and a series of new performances.
Steve Evan’s work is informed by an interest in architectural detail, geometry and space. His drawings incorporate the techniques and formal qualities of technical drawing, suggesting the qualities of precision, regimentation and measurement associated with CAD (computer-aided Design). Unlike CAD-generated drawings, however, Evan’s one-off works contain minute inconsistencies, attesting to their hand-drawn origin and the artist’s deliberate manipulation of line.
The New Art Gallery Walsall is working with New Art West Midlands and other partners to deliver Engine, the Artist and Curator Professional Development programme. The programme consists of talks, studio visits, bursaries, microresidences, mentoring and a range of other artist and curator development opportunities.
Evans will use his residency to extend his work further into abstraction and three dimensions.
New Art West Midlands is the contemporary visual arts network for the region and plays a key role in supporting, promoting and developing the region’s contemporary visual arts sector. More information: newartwestmidlands.co.uk
LONG GALLERY
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The University of Wolverhampton Inspiring Teachers March – April 201. Each year, students from the B.Ed Degree course in Primary Teacher Education at The University of Wolverhampton (Walsall Campus), engage with the Gallery in a partnership project. This ongoing relationship aims to develop the students’ knowledge and understanding of teaching art and to equip them with the skills and confidence to engage their own students with the Gallery’s programmes.
VENUE HIRE A unique setting for inspiring and creative events at affordable rates. Be surrounded by fascinating art collections and exhibitions in a signature building designed by Caruso St John. Enjoy
GALLERY SHOP | GROUND FLOOR
Gallery Shop Visit our refurbished bright and stylish ground floor shop where you will find a wide range of products available. We stock a wide range of books including art, architecture, photography, fashion and local history. We have a range of art technique and craft books to inspire you and now offer a good choice of art materials with a new range especially designed for children. There is also a wide selection of gifts and gallery souvenirs, greeting cards and stationery. Friends of the Gallery receive a 10% discount
panoramic views from the roof terrace adjoining the newly refurbished Floor 4 Conference Facility and hospitality by recommended caters Costa Coffee. Frequent train services from Birmingham and parking available nearby.
EXHIBITIONS
CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS FEBRUARY
MARCH
Idris Khan | 3 February — 7 May 2017 Steve Evans | Until 12 February The University of Wolverhampton Inspiring Teachers | March – Works from Tate... PEOPLE’S CHOICE | Opens 1 March 2017 Andrew Gillespie: Anti-Scrape | 3 February — 23 April 2017 Scenes of Walsall | 18 February — 16 July 2017 2 2 14 18 18 21 22 23 25 28 28 28
Idris Khan Andrew Gillespie Art Start Free collaborative artwork workshop Scenes of Walsall Stamp printing Print a poster Screen style Free collaborative artwork workshop Baby Palace Art Start Scenes of Walsall
Preview Preview Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Saturday Playdate Special Launch Event Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday workshops for all (all ages) Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Saturday Playdate Sensory sessions (Parents & babies upto 18 months) Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Special Launch Event
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PEOPLE’S CHOICE Silkscreen printing with Andrew Gillespie Understanding Art: Arts & Science PEOPLE’S CHOICE Art Start Scenes of Walsall Book Fair Baby Palace Art Start Idris Khan Andrew Gillespie
Preview Adult workshop Adult talk programme (dates also include 16, 23 & 30 Marc Exhibition tour Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Rag Rug making workshop Walsall College artist book fair Sensory sessions (Parents & babies upto 18 months) Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) In Conversation In Conversation
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Art Start Free collaborative artwork workshop Scenes of Walsall Patrick Goodall Patrick Goodall Teacher’s Coffee Morning Layer upon layer Create and erase Stamping blocks Free collaborative artwork workshop Layer upon layer Kid’s choice Frame it! Free collaborative artwork workshop Scenes of Walsall Baby Palace Art Start Vaisakhi 2017
Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Saturday Playdate Traditional frames workshop Studio Weekender Studio Weekender Secondary art teachers Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday workshops for all (all ages) Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Saturday Playdate Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday workshops for all (all ages) Thursday Skills (Age 4 and over) Saturday Playdate Reminiscence Sessions Sensory sessions (Parents & babies upto 18 months) Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Celebration for all ages
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Art Start Baby Palace Art Start Scenes of Walsall Rachel Goodyear Soheila Sokhanvari Free collaborative artwork workshop Drawing with a twist We are the animals
Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Sensory sessions (Parents & babies upto 18 months) Pre school (Toddlers up to age 4) Peg Doll making workshop Preview Preview Saturday Playdate Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday workshops for all (all ages)
FEBRUARY
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Patrick Goodhall: Tool Workshop | 4-16 April Joanne Masding | 5 May — 30 July 2017
6-8pm 6-8pm 12noon–1pm From 11am 1–3pm 11am–12noon 1–3pm 2pm From 11am 10.30–11.30 / 12–1 / 2–3 12noon–1pm TBC
All welcome All welcome £1.50 (book) Free Free - all welcome £1.50 (book) Free - all welcome £2.50 (book) Free £1.50 (book) £1.50 (book) Free - all welcome
EXHIBITIONS COMING SOON:
6-8pm 10am–4pm 1–3pm 2pm 12noon–1pm 1-3pm (Drop-in) 10am–4pm 10.30–11.30 / 12–1 / 2–3 12noon–1pm 6.30pm 2pm
All welcome £25 (book) £20, 4 parts (book) All welcome £1.50 (book) Free - all welcome Free - all welcome £1.50 (book) £1.50 (book) £3 (book) Free - all welcome
BOOKING
12noon–1pm From 11am 1-3pm (Drop-in) 12noon–4pm 1-3pm 10am–1.30pm 11am–12noon 1-3pm 2pm From 11am 11am–12noon 1-3pm 2pm From 11am 11am, 1pm or 3pm 10.30–11.30 / 12-1 / 2–3 12noon–1pm 12pm–4pm
£1.50 (book) Free Free - all welcome Drop-in, free. Drop-in, free. Free (book) £1.50 (book) Free - all welcome £2.50 (book) Free £1.50 (book) Free - all welcome £2.50 (book) Free Free - all welcome £1.50 (book) £1.50 (book) Free (book)
11am–12noon 10.30–11.30 / 12-1 / 2–3 12noon–1pm 1-3pm (Drop-in) 6-8pm 6-8pm From 11am 11am-12noon 1-3pm
£1.50 (book) £1.50 (book) £1.50 (book) Free - all welcome All welcome All welcome Free £1.50 (book) Free - all welcome
Rachel Goodyear
26 May — 3 September
Soheila Sokhanvari May — 3 September
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