Another visit to Swindon Museum yesterday to see their latest exhibition. Modern Times is the title this time and the selection is mainly artists from the ‘School of London’ – Auerbach, Kossof, Freud etc. A few non-members thrown in for good luck. Freud’s Girl with a Fig Leaf from 1947 is on show. I love these early Freud works depicting his… Read More Modern Times at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Seen at the Swindon Art Gallery and Museum, in their new(ish) exhibition Going to Town: Scenes of Urban Life. Swindon’s regularly changing exhibitions are always interesting. They really make the most of their collection of modern British works. Some new discovery always jumps out at me when I visit and this time I especially like… Read More Sylvia Gosse – The Printer (1915)
I’ve been interested in William Roberts work for a long time. It started when I came across his The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel: Spring, 1915 (1961-2) when I was in the middle of a temporary obsession with the Vorticists, Britain’s avant-garde movement from just before the first world war. The Restaurant picture was painted 45… Read More Nature Morte (1948) by William Roberts
This week I went to the exhibition Present Tense: Contemporary British Painting & Photography from the Swindon Collection at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. This is yet another of the exhibitions in the Frameworks series, a collaboration between 5 galleries in the South West – those from Bristol, Bath, Cheltenham and Swindon. In this exhibition,… Read More “Fear and loathing in…” Swindon!
This week’s recommendation for exploring is Present Tense: Contemporary British Painting & Photography From The Swindon Collection at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. I’ve never been to Swindon Art Gallery, as it always seems to be shut! A slight exaggeration, but the opening hours are definitely on the short side – Wednesday to Saturday 11.00am – 3.00pm.… Read More Exhibition of the week – Present Tense: Contemporary British Painting: Photography From The Swindon Collection (Swindon Museum and Art Gallery)
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