Issue 36 2023 - Journal - Page 75
Watts Gallery - Artists Village
Monthly Listings - 2023
Faces of Fame: G F Watts X Simon Frederick
British Portraits Then and Now
27 September 2022 - 26 March 2023
Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village is exhibiting a selection of
photographs from Simon Frederick’s portrait series Black
is the New Black alongside paintings from G F Watts’s
Hall of Fame.
The display will re-examine the representation of
celebrity, race, gender, class, power, and empire, allowing
a critical re-evaluation of Watts and explore what a Hall
of Fame might look like today.
Join Dr Laura MacCulloch for an introduction tour to the
exhibition on 19 January between 12 – 12.30pm, part of
a series exploring the themes of the exhibition happening
monthly. Free with admission.
In Print: Kaleidoscopic
4 November – 15 January 2023
Our annual print-making show is this year a riot of colour.
With prints showcasing individual hues, and some which
seem to use all of them. A rainbow display of prints of all
mediums and subjects, from penguins to wild swimming,
a Japanese tea ceremony to rural idylls.
Join curator Dr Emily Burns for an exhibition tour
between 12 – 12.30pm on 26 January
Free entry. All works for Sale
Dreams and Stories:
Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries
18 October 2022 – 26 February 2023
Enter a world of stories, dreams and the surreal. Discover
a group of artists fascinated with colour and art for art’s
sake, and who carried Pre-Raphaelite ideas into the 20th
century.
A Sense of Place
19 January – 26 March 2023
Led by Ashleigh Fisk
Young landscape artists Grace Ellen (returning to Watts
Contemporary after featuring in Heartlands in January
2022) and Tom Voyce (winner of Sky Landscape Artist
of the Year in 2017) show how the places around affect
them, and how they distil the landscapes of Surrey, Cornwall and the USA into their beautiful paintings.
With loans from Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum,
Tate, and other lenders, this is a unique opportunity to
encounter exquisite works from this period in British art.
Free entry. All works for sale.
