What's on: October 2015 — January 2016
The New Art Gallery Walsall
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Cover Image ~ Mat Collishaw, Insecticide 24, 2008, C-type photograph, 182cm x 182cm. Courtesy of the artist and Blain | Southern
Welcome To The New Art Gallery Walsall 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, she wanted to give something back to the Black County 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 throughout the world. Our Permanent Collection has a range of 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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CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Mat Collishaw, All Things Fall, 2014, steel, aluminium, plaster, resin, LED lights, motor, 200cm x 200cm x 200cm. Courtesy of the artist and Blain | Southern
EXHIBITION GALLERIES | FLOORS 3 AND 4
Mat Collishaw Until 10 January 2016 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present a major survey exhibition by British artist Mat Collishaw, the first in a UK public gallery for over ten years. The exhibition includes photography, film, sculpture and installation and testifies to the richness and breadth of Collishaw’s practice, highlighting and exploring some of the overriding themes and preoccupations within his work. Mat Collishaw is fascinated by the darker side of human nature. He has never shied away from difficult or challenging subject matter; ideas that deal with death, destruction and decay are revealed as beautiful, hypnotic and compelling. In Collishaw’s world, seduction meets repulsion, the shocking becomes alluring, the beautiful becomes squalid and desire meets pain. As an artist, he is especially aware of the power of the image to manipulate and he draws his inspiration from a range of sources such as the media, popular culture, nature, mythology, the slick vernacular of advertising, the rich seams of art history and the proliferation of images available through the internet.
In Conversation Thursday 12 November, 6.30pm Join the artist for a talk about the exhibition. £3. Booking essential. For details see the Events Calendar.
Concurrent with his exhibition in Walsall, Collishaw presents an exhibition of new work, In Camera, commissioned by GRAIN and The Library of Birmingham, inspired by the Library’s internationally renowned photography collections (18 September 2015 — 10 January 2016). The New Art Gallery Walsall and The Library of Birmingham have jointly commissioned a limited edition print to mark the exhibitions. The print can be purchased from The New Art Gallery Walsall Shop, priced £235 (unframed). The exhibition continues on Floor 4 where All Things Fall is on display until 31 January 2016.
Curator’s tour Saturday 28 November, 2pm Join Deborah Robinson, Head of Exhibitions for an informal tour of the exhibition. Free, just drop in!
Jan Vanriet, The Music Boy, Courtesy of the artist and Roberto Polo Gallery
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Jan Vanriet The Music Boy 29 January — 8 May 2016 Jan Vanriet is a hugely influential painter and poet from Belgium. He has exhibited widely across the world, representing his country in the biennials of Sao Paolo, Venice and Seoul yet this is his first exhibition in the UK. Much of his work is rooted in his family history. His parents met in the Mauthausen concentration camp and their stories and memories of the Second World War and its aftermath continue to influence his paintings. Themes of love, loss, identity,
Preview Thursday 28 January 2016, 6-8pm Friends, family and colleagues welcome
destiny and disappearance pervade his work. Yet there is also an inherent playfulness and lightness of touch and an evident mastery of the medium of paint. The Music Boy is a polyptych of four paintings depicting his grandmother and uncle – his mother’s twin brother – playing the accordion as a boy before the war. Jan Vanriet was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1948. He lives and works in Antwerp.
Laura Lancaster, Threshold, 2015, oil on linen, 240x480cm Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery
EXHIBITION GALLERIES | FLOORS 3 AND 4
Laura Lancaster 29 January — 8 May 2016 Laura Lancaster is a painter who draws inspiration from forgotten and discarded photographs and home movies, found in flea markets, charity shops and through ebay. Once precious and significant to someone, they are now detached from their original contexts and instead, they become animated through Laura’s luscious, gestural and expressive application of paint. These lost and dislocated souls, caught in the ambiguous space between figuration and abstraction, compel us to reflect on time, memory and loss.
Preview Thursday 28 January 2016, 6-8pm Friends, family and colleagues welcome
This exhibition will bring together a range of works by the artist including a new series of diptychs which are drawn from the very first and last frames of found super 8mm home movies. With the inclusion of sprocket holes and marks on the film, the paintings are portraits of the medium of film as much as their subject matter. The juxtaposition of the first and last frames implies the passing of time through the lost narrative that bind these moments together. Laura Lancaster was born in Hartlepool in 1979 and she lives and works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Jacob Epstein with Torso in Metal from Rock Drill, unknown photographer, c.1952, Epstein Archive, The New Art Gallery Walsall
COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS
Epstein’s Rock Drill Transformed by War Until 24 January 2016 Rock Drill is Epstein’s most radical and celebrated sculpture, often described as ‘the best thing he has ever done’. The totemic sculpture represents ‘a dramatic, revolutionary moment when sculpture in Britain first became uncompromisingly modern.’ However between the end of 1915 and the beginning of 1916 Epstein destroyed the original Rock Drill, discarding the drill and mutilating the figure; to form the truncated Torso in Metal from Rock Drill. Exhibition talk Saturday 3 October, 2pm Join Epstein Research Assistant Elin Morgan for an in-depth look at the exhibition. Free, all welcome.
Marking the centenary of Epstein’s dismantling of Rock Drill, and bringing together important works from the collections of Tate, The British Museum, National Portrait Gallery and Birmingham Museums Trust, this exhibition will reveal how the sculpture’s un-making is as significant as its making.
Edward Bawden (1903-1989), Borough, 1967, lithograph
COLLECTION GALLERIES | FLOORS 1 AND 2
The Clive Beardsmore Gift
Interventions in the Garman Ryan Galleries Until 24 January 2016 These Interventions are some of the highlights of a donation of 200 artworks received by the Gallery in 2014 from Birmingham-based private collector Clive Beardsmore. Clive has a longstanding association with our collections, having worked at the former Walsall Art Gallery in the early 1970s, coinciding with the time Walsall received Kathleen Garman’s gift. This body of work is the largest individual donation to our collections since The Garman Ryan Collection.
Works from The Clive Beardsmore Gift are exhibited throughout Floors 1 and 2 in the 10 themed Garman Ryan galleries. This exhibition features works on paper by leading Modern British Artists such as Edward Bawden, John Bratby, Graham Sutherland and Keith Vaughan.
Artwork of the Month October Saturday 31 October, 2pm Josef Herman, Song of the Migrant Bird, 1999 Free, all welcome
Artwork of the Month November Wednesday 11 November, 2pm John Spencer-Churchill, Bombed Church at Lessines, Belgium, 1940 Free, all welcome
An Artwork of the Month series of introductory talks on specific artwork accompanies this exhibition.
EXHIBITIONS / ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
The John Ruskin Prize Recording Britain Now: Society 26 February — 17 April 2016 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to announce it will be hosting The John Ruskin Prize. Now in its third year, it has become an excellent showcase for emerging talent and established artists from across the UK. The competition is open to artists aged 18 and over living in the UK. The deadline is 23 November 2015. Visit thebigdraw.org/ruskinprize Preview Thursday 25 February, 6-8pm Friends, family and colleagues welcome
The New Art Gallery Walsall delivers an Artist Development programme in partnership with Turning Point West Midlands. Throughout the year, we offer events and opportunities including studio visits, micro-residencies, research visits, practical advice and networking to support artists across the West Midlands region and at every stage of an artist’s career.
For the latest information, please visit www.tpwestmidlands.org.uk
Jessica Holt Untitled, 2014, steel, rock. Photo: David Rowan
ARTISTS’ STUDIO / RESIDENCIES
Jessica Holt 3 November — 1 December 2015 Jessica Holt’s sculptures explore the relationship between volume, mass, surface and structure. Her works are grounded in the pared-down minimalist aesthetic prevalent in America during the 1960s and early 1970s. Rocks act as bases for delicate steel structures, creating a tension between the natural and man-made. The elegance, lightness and seeming fragility of the metal structures is counterbalanced by the heavy mass of the supporting rocks.
Jessica graduated from Birmingham City University in 2014 and was selected for New Art West Midlands 15.
Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary 5 January — 27 March 2016 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to be working with disability-led arts organisation, Shape, to offer a significant residency opportunity for a mid-career artist to develop their practice and profile. The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary was set up in the memory of the life and work of sculptor, Adam Reynolds (1959 – 2005).
The bursary is offered annually via an open submission process in collaboration with partner galleries and museums across England.
FAMILIES AND EVENTS
The Family Gallery is a space to explore together and understand what an art gallery is. This space is an introduction to using the gallery and exploring ways of looking at an artwork. Each artwork has an interactive that you can play with. Each artwork has a question next to it to start your thinking. There’s also a set of discussion cards. Each card has a picture of the artwork and information and questions and suggestions to help you explore and discuss the artwork. Pop in and see us to find out what’s happening.
Family Activities Pick up the family leaflet, or check out the website for dates and more information about our workshops: Family Sundays Drop In / Tuesday Tots Wednesday Workshops / Friday Fun We run regular activities including: Baby Palace: Multi-sensory environment Art Start: Explore art and make things Arts Award: Explre art for 5-25year olds
Borrow one of our free activity or trail bags: Open all day
Visit the website for more information on all events or to download our families leaflet: www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk Check out our Pinterest site www.pinterest.com/NAGEducation to see photos of what we’re making!
Tod Bags: Ages 3-5 years with carers Frisky Bags: Ages 6-12 years Drawing Bags: With materials and paper Exhibition Bags: Explore the exhibitions
CALENDAR
Drop in anytime
Checkout our calendar at the back of the What's On to find out when all our events are on.
EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
Young People
Adult Workshops
Man and Machine
Looking at Art series
Tuesday 27 October 2105, 10am-5pm A day to fill a sketch book.
#Golden
Beginning February 2016
This is new six part course for 16-25 year olds to develop skills working towards the Gold Arts Award.
Events for Everyone Diwali 15 Festival of Light Saturday 7 November 2015 12noon-4pm Come and celebrate with us.
Black History Month Saturday 24 October 2015, 1.30-3pm
Walsall Black Sisters and Creative Black Country are bringing their choir performance to the gallery and there is an audio described talk on Epstein’s Rock Drill.
Look out for our new online booking system coming soon!
Thursday, 1-3pm or Saturdays, 11-1pm Thursday course: running from the 24 September 2015 £72 for 10 week non-accredited course This is a beginner’s 10 week course exploring, looking and discussing art across four Black Country and Birmingham art galleries. This beginner’s course is suitable for adult learners of all ages with no previous art knowledge. For more information contact Wolverhampton Adult Education Service on 01902 558180 or www.aeswolverhampton.gov.uk
Drawing
3, 10, 17 October 10.30am-1.30pm
An opportunity to explore a range of materials and approaches, building up a new ‘vocabulary’ of drawing. Pick up an information sheet from reception.
Visit our website for much more information on all workshops.
Mat Collishaw, Third Degree, 2015, Lambda print Courtesy of the artist and Blain | Southern
GALLERY SHOP AND INFORMATION
Limited Edition Print Mat Collishaw Third Degree, 2015 70 x 70 cm + white border Lambda print Edition of 100 + 5 AP’s £235 unframed (+ postage and packaging)
To order, call 01922 65 4400, email info@thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk or purchase in the Gallery. A monograph, published by Blain | Southern, is also available. Every purchase supports the Gallery.
New in the shop this season is a limited edition print by renowned artist Mat Collishaw to accompany his major survey exhibition.
* Big improvements to the Gallery Shop The ground floor shop will, thanks to grant funding from Arts Council England, undergo a complete refit this autumn.
The work will be completed before Christmas and will offer a new brighter exciting shopping experience. Watch out for our new online shop launching this year!
THE GALLERY SHOP | GROUND FLOOR
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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 panoramic views from the roof terrace adjoining the newly refurbished Floor 4 Conference Facility and hospitality by recommended caterers Costa Coffee.
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Frequent train services from Birmingham and parking available nearby.
For corporate events and meetings, email venuehire@thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk or call 01922 654400 for further details.
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CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
EXHIBITIONS OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
Mat Collishaw | Until 10 January 2016 Epstein's Rock Drill | Until 24 January 2016 The Clive Beardsmore Gift | Until 24 January 2016
Jessica Holt | 3 November – 1 December
EVENTS OCTOBER Sat Sat Sun Sat Sat Sat Sat Sat Tue Tue Wed Fri Sat
3 3 4 10 17 24 24 24 27 27 28 30 31
Drawing Course Epstein's Rock Drill Rock that robot Drawing Course Drawing Course Choir performance Rock Drill talk (audio described) Choir workshop Man and Machine 3 legged Taller and Higher Be a Maker Clive Beardsmore Gift
Adult Workshops Exhibition Talk Family Sundays (All ages) Adult Workshops Adult Workshops Black History Month Black History Month Black History Month Young People Tuesday Tots (Toddlers up to age 4) Wednesday Workshop (All ages) Friday Fun (Age 4 and over) Artwork of the Month Introductory Talk
NOVEMBER Sat Wed Thur Sat Sun
7 11 12 28 29
Diwali Festival of Light Clive Beardsmore Gift Mat Collishaw Mat Collishaw Town Celebrations
Events for Everyone Artwork of the Month Introductory Talk In Conversation with artist Curators Tour Special Family Sunday (All ages)
Jan Vanriet Laura Lancaster
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DECEMBER
COMING SOON: Jan Vanriet Laura Lancaster John Ruskin Prize
JANUARY
Adam Reynolds Bursary | Starts 5 January
10.30–1.30pm 2pm 1–3pm 10.30–1.30pm 10.30–1.30pm 1.3opm 2pm 2.30pm 10am–5pm 10–11am 1–3pm 11–12.30pm or 1–2.30pm 2pm
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BOOKING Pre book for events on 01922 654400 or just ask at reception. Collect your ticket from reception anytime when you’ve paid. Any bookings made for paid workshops will be held for seven days without payment. Look out for our new online booking system coming soon!
Visit the website for full details on all events or follow us on twitter: thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
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Free – all welcome Free – all welcome £3 (Book) Free Free – all welcome
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