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Paintings, drawings and sculpture by post war British artists remain keenly sought after by our collectors. Andrews, Auerbach, Caulfield, Chadwick, Freud, Frink, Hepworth, Heron, Hockney, Kossoff and Riley are among the names most regularly discussed with buyers.
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Exhibition 27th October to 13th NovemberThis winter, Messum’s are pleased to bring together paintings by threeartists who take their inspiration from the life and landscape of WestCornwall. Each of them have explored the fertile boundary betweenabstraction and figuration and work in their own deeply personalpainterly languages. Rose Hilton and Jeremy Annear are each representedexclusively by the gallery as is the studio estate of Michael Upton.
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Exhibition 27th October to 13th NovemberThis winter, Messum’s are pleased to bring together paintings by threeartists who take their inspiration from the life and landscape of WestCornwall. Each of them have explored the fertile boundary betweenabstraction and figuration and work in their own deeply personalpainterly languages. Rose Hilton and Jeremy Annear are each representedexclusively by the gallery as is the studio estate of Michael Upton.
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Contents
Features
18 Contemporary Eye: Crossovers Artwise Curators
22 Spencer Finch: The Evening Star Simon Martin
24 Gods and Monsters: John Deakin's Portraits of British Artists Robin Muir
28 Modern British Prints Simon Martin
30 Season's Greetings Emma Robertson
32 Focus On: Outside In winner Dannielle Hodson
34 Garrick Palmer: A Life in Wood Engraving Julie Brown
Friends 40 Chairman's Letter
41 Forthcoming Friends Events
Regulars7 Director's Letter
11 What's On: Exhibitions
15 Collection News
38 Gallery News
39 Bookshop
44 What's On: Events
55 Pallant Photos
56 Artwork of the Month
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Grayson Perry, Vote Alan Measles for God (2008), Wool Needlepoint, edition of five © the artist. Image © Banners of Persuasion
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Editorial
EditorialEditors Emma Robertson, [email protected] Gallery Editorial Stefan van Raay, Emma Robertson, Simon Martin, Julie BrownGuest Editorial (with thanks) Artwise Curators, Dannielle Hodson, Robin Muir, Martin Roberts, Alan Wood Design, Editing and Production David Wynn, [email protected] AdvertisingBooking and General Enquiries Kim Jenner +44 (0)207 3005658Jane Grylls +44 (0)207 3005661 Paolo Russo +44 (0)207 3005751 Gallery InformationPallant House Gallery9 North Pallant, ChichesterWest Sussex, PO19 1TJ, UKTelephone +44 (0)1243 [email protected], www.pallant.org.uk Opening Times Monday Closed Tuesday–Saturday 10am–5pm Thursday 10am–8pm Sunday/Bank Holidays 11am–5pm Art Library+44 (0)1243 770824 [email protected] Friends OfficeEvents +44 (0)1243 [email protected] Membership +44 (0)1243 770815 [email protected]
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The Julian Trevelyan Catalogue Raisonné of prints is being republished to coincide with this exhibition. Contact the gallery to reserve your copy.
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In the spring last year we launched the 'Free entry by 2012' appeal, the major drive to raise enough money to secure the financial stability of the Gallery now and in the future and ultimately to give free access to the Collections. The financial climate has changed dramatically and it is now unlikely we can raise the necessary £6 million by 2012. Nevertheless, we are still committed to the principle of free access to the collections and plan to use the money raised through the campaign for a step-by-step introduction of free entry. Therefore it is with great pleasure that, from 1 October, we will be offering free access to the Gallery on Thursday evenings from 5 until 8 pm. Please note that sometimes we may have to charge a modest admission fee for costly temporary exhibitions. Future steps could include free access for under 26-year-olds (£250,000 to be raised) or a free Tuesday (£700,000 to be raised). In the meantime, we hope for your continued generosity and support. Additionally, we have experienced a demand for Sunday morning visits. From October we will open the Gallery on a Sunday morning at 11am instead of 12.30pm. All this to give you more opportunity to enjoy the Gallery and its programmes.
This autumn we offer a very varied programme: 'Gods and Monsters: John Deakin's Portraits of British Artists' follows seamlessly the earlier Snowdon (2007) and Lee Miller (2009) exhibitions, pairing Deakin's
photographs of artists with works by the sitters themselves. Guest Curator, Robin Muir introduces the Vogue photographer on page 24. Also, 'Contemporary Eye', the series of exhibitions curated by Artwise returns this year with 'Crossovers', a show exploring the application and use of crafts in contemporary art (p.18). We are most grateful to the sponsor ZeroC Holdings which is introducing sustainable housing to the former barracks site in Chichester.
Spencer Finch is the latest artist to produce a site-specific installation for the historic stairwell of Pallant House. Simon Martin unveils the commission on page 22. Many of you took part in Lise Bjørne Linnert's project for the lost women of Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican/ USA border during the Surreal Friends exhibitions in the summer. The labels will be installed in the landing of the New Wing throughout the season. We also have a new Collections display in Room 4 exploring landscape, and an exhibition of artists' Christmas cards in the De'Longhi Print Room (p.30). Finally, an in-focus display highlights the many European Masters in the Gallery's Collection from Cezanne to Picasso (p.56). We hope to see you in the Gallery throughout the season for the many exhibitions and events.
Free Thursday EveningsStefan van Raay
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Macmillan De'Longhi Art AuctionOn Tuesday 28th September, the annual Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction will once again make its mark on London's art and social calendar at Avenue, St James', London. The auction, now in its fourth year, will see pieces of modern art go under the hammer, with all proceeds donated directly to Macmillan Cancer Support to help people whose lives are affected by cancer.Donations this year come from high profile artists including Gavin Turk, Sir Peter Blake, Maurice Cockrill, Maggie Hambling, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sir Howard Hodgkin, Nick Hornby, and Jack Vettriano, amongst others. A raffle offering sought after prizes including a tour of Deutsche Bank's Private Art Collection will also take place during the evening.For more information about the artwork being sold or to enquire about applying to receive invitations to this VIP entry auction, please contact Claire Ingram at Clarion Communications [email protected] or 020 7343 3142.
Vintage at Goodwood FestivalAugust saw De'Longhi link up with Pallant House Gallery for the first ever Vintage at Goodwood Festival, a new summer festival celebrating creative British cool. De'Longhi's Art Café, featuring in the pop-up High Street, displayed some of the Gallery's key works from the likes of Sir Peter Blake and Patrick Caulfield.Throughout the three day festival, the De'Longhi Art Café served coffee to festival goers and hosted Barista-led master classes, teaching coffee drinkers top tips on everything coffee, from bean to cup.Live 'bread' art was also created in the Café under the direction of acclaimed Brit artist, Gavin Turk, which will be sold at the upcoming Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction.
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Laura Robinson, 'Order' – one of the pieces up for auction at this year's Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction
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What's On Exhibitions
Gods & Monsters: John Deakin's Portraits of British Artists 2 October–10 January An exhibition of iconic portraits of British artists by the legendary (and infamous) Vogue photographer John Deakin (1912-1972) paired with major paintings by each artist, providing a unique view of the artistic bohemia of post-war Soho. Artists and subjects include: Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, John Craxton, Lucian Freud, John Minton, and Eduardo Paolozzi.
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers 2 October–6 March A series of exciting interventions in the 18th century house and new wing galleries by international contemporary artists exploring traditional craft techniques such as ceramics, textiles, wood carving, glass and taxidermy. Artists include Grayson Perry, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Polly Morgan.
From Cézanne to Picasso: European Masters in the Pallant House Gallery Collection 15 January–13 March A display of continental modern art by artists including Alechinsky, Bonnard, Braque, Cézanne, DalÍ, Delvaux, Dérain, Dufy, Filla, Gleizes, Hayden, Klee, Kokoschka, Le Corbusier, Léger, Lemmen, Maillol, Manet, Marcoussis, Marini, Matisse, Metzinger, Miró, Picasso, Roualt, Schlichter, Severini, Vuillard.
Home and Away: Artists and Landscape 2 October–3 April An in-focus display of natural landscapes from the Pallant House Gallery collection exploring the inspiration Modern British Artists found in landscape in both the UK and abroad. Featuring works by David Bomberg, Mark Gertler, Edward Lear, John Minton, Brett Whiteley and Jack Butler Yeats.
InstallationsSpencer Finch: The Evening Star 2 October–October 2011 A new installation by the New York-based contemporary artist manipulating light and perception through an intervention in the stairwell and loggia.
Lise Bjørne Linnert: Desconocida Unknown Ukjent 2 October–6 March A textiles installation of thousands of name labels hand-sewn by members of the public to draw attention to the plight of the missing women of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.
John Deakin, Eduardo Paolozzi (1952) Courtesy Vogue © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd
David Bomberg, Tajo and Rocks, Ronda (The Last Landscape), 1956, Pallant House Gallery (Wilson Loan) © Sir Colin St. John Wilson
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What's OnExhibitions
De'Longhi Print Room Modern British Prints: The David Medd Bequest 14 September–7 November A presentation of Modern British prints bequeathed by the leading post-war schools architect David Medd (1917–2009), including iconic works by Edward Bawden, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, and Robin Tanner.
Garrick Palmer: A Life in Wood Engraving 11 January–13 March A retrospective exhibition of prints and book illustrations from across Palmer's career, showing the artist's mastery of wood engraving and distinctive view of the English landscape.
Season's Greetings: Christmas Cards by Modern British Artists 9 November–9 January A seasonal display of quirky and often personal Christmas cards created by artists including Glyn Philpot, Eric Gill, Enid Marx, and Edward Bawden.
StudioOutside In Award winner: Danielle Hodson 28 September–31 October An exhibition by the Outside In 2009 award-winner exploring the theme of generosity, truth and the accuracy of first impressions.
Barbara MacFarlane Joel Howie PiA Partnership 2 November–28 November A selection of recent works from one of the partnerships in the exemplary Partners in Art scheme which places artists with artists and volunteers into a supportive partnership.
Outside In Kwei Eden 30 November–2 January A collection of works by 2009 Outside In award-winner Kwei Eden depicting her emotional journey of self-discovery through the medium of art.
Artscape 4–30 January An exhibition of recent works by participants from Artscape, an independent fine arts organisation working with disabled adults across the south.
Creative Communities 1–27 February Photographs of the Community Programme at Pallant House Gallery. Led by photographer Lynn Weddle members of the Community Programme have created portraits capturing themselves and their creative interests. Community Programme Volunteers 1–27 March Volunteer Workshop Assistants from the Community Programme showcase their unique array of skills
Garrick Palmer, Trade Union Leader, 1962, Woodcut
Edward Bawden, Brighton Pier, 1958, Pallant House Gallery, The David Leslie Medd Bequest (2009)
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Women of PoP Jann Haworth's 'Mae West Dressing Table' (1967) will be lent to the exhibition 'POWER UP. Female Pop Art' at the Kunsthalle in Vienna (5 November 2010 to 20 February 2011). The exhibition intends to undertake a revision of the art-historical view of Pop Art being associated with male protagonists, including Niki de Saint Phalle, Evelyn Axell, Rosalyn and Jann Haworth. Through their works' graphicness, monumentality and vocabulary of form, as well as their choice of colour, they remain militant, critical and outstanding in their positions as feminist pioneers. Haworth's 'Cowboy' will be lent to the exhibition 'Film Pop' at Wolverhampton Art Gallery from 20 November 2010 to 20 February 2010.
Collection News
The BalleTs Russes The V&A Museum's headline autumn exhibition 'Serge Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929' (25 Sept 2010–9 Jan 2011) will feature two loans from Pallant House Gallery: a set design by Alexandre Benois for 'Les Sylphides' and a related choreographic floor pattern, which was presented to Walter Hussey in 1936 by Fokine, one of the greatest Russian ballet dancers of all time. Between 1909 to 1914 Fokine had been choreographer and principal dancer of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. 'Les Sylphides', which was set to music by Chopin, opened the Spring season in Paris in 1909. The first night undoubtedly marked a resurrection of the ballet outside Russia. Sergei Gregoriev recorded in his diary how, 'The first season of the Diaghilev Ballet must be commemorated in letters of gold in the annals of Russian Ballet. To say that it was successful is to say nothing. It was a revelation, a major event in the artistic life of Paris'.
facing The fuTuRe in BaRcelona Pallant House Gallery will be lending a group of works to the major international exhibition 'Let us Face the Future' at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona (Nov 2010 – Mar 2011) which is organised by the British Council. Henry Moore's 'Two Sleepers', Patrick Caulfield's 'Portrait of Juan Gris', Richard Hamilton's 'Interior Study (c)' and Eduardo Paolozzi's 'As is When' suite of silkscreen prints will be key works in the exhibition, which looks selectively at the twenty year period from the 1940s to mid-sixties and the emergence of artists such as Riley, Kitaj, Hockney and Caulfield.
Richard Hamilton, Interior Study (c), 1964, Collage, oil and pastel on paper, Wilson Loan © the artist
Jann Haworth, Mae West Dressing Table, 1965, Pallant House Gallery (Wilson Loan) © The Artist
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contemporary eye: crossovers is the second exhibition curated by artwise curators (susie allen, laura culpan, Deana Vanagan) in association with Pallant house gallery exploring contemporary art though the eyes of the private art collector. here, artwise introduce this year's show which focuses on the revival of traditional craft techniques in contemporary art.
Following 2009's 'Contemporary Eye: Material Matters', which examined some of the challenges posed by the different media used by artists in contemporary artworks (such as light, sound and biodegradable material), 'Contemporary Eye: Crossovers' explores the importance of artistic process, with a specific focus on fine artists who incorporate elements of traditional 'craft' approaches in their practice. The works included in the exhibition use what can be termed as traditional materials of craftsmanship such as ceramics, wood, textiles, glass and taxidermy, but what unites the works is a layering of process, material, concept and interpretation.
The exhibition is not about defining or reinventing the term 'craft', but rather, a way to bring together contemporary artists who have demonstrated a particular interest in the process of making the work and the materials and methods used. In each piece, the 'hand of the artist' or the craftsmanship of the piece is inextricably linked to the success of the work on both a conceptual and aesthetic level.
The selection of works from private contemporary art collections has been influenced by our host space, Pallant House Gallery, whose magnificent collection and architecture has been the inspiration behind the overriding concept. The Gallery is essentially a 'collection of collections', and much of the original exhibition space is a former domestic setting. When
Contemporary Eye: CrossoversArtwise Curators
Barnaby Barford, Come on you lightweight - down it (2007), © the artist Photograph by Noah da Costa Opposite Page Gary Hume, Georgie and Orchids (2008), Wool tapestry with raised silk embroidery, Edition of five © the artist. Image © Banners of Persuasion
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deciding which artists and works to show, we very much took this as a starting point - exploring questions such as how the traditional crafts such as taxidermy and ceramics would have originally have been shown in the eighteenth-century townhouse. We wanted to interact with the old and new spaces of the Gallery and it has led us to turn some of the rooms on their heads.
So, you can expect to find some unexpected changes in the galleries, such as contemporary butterfly wallpaper by Damien Hirst adorning the walls of the new wing thereby domesticating the white cube space and showing the artworks in a new light. Chippendale furniture from the old house will sit along side Susan Hefuna's Arabic carved wooden screen and Grayson Perry's ceramics and tapestries. Equally, you may have to search harder for some contemporary artworks that are 'hidden' amongst the existing displays such Barnaby Barford's ceramics that delightfully converse with the Geoffrey Freeman Collection of Bow Porcelain. Barford intervenes, mutilates, constructs and reconstructs these familiar porcelain figures into narratives that are dark, humorous and intrinsically contemporary. Also, within the Arthur Miller Collection of 18th century Irish Glass the discerning viewer may find some incongruous items: delicately made glass objects in form of hand grenade by British Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum: strategically placed amongst the eighteenth century Irish glass.
Taxidermy features strongly in the exhibition as there has been a resurgence of the art form in recent years within the contemporary art scene. The artists selected for 'Contemporary Eye: Crossovers', such as Artists Anonymous, Neil Hamon, Kelly McCallum, Polly Morgan and Nina Saunders approach and use the medium in diverse ways. Saunders' trilogy from 'Katy's Convoy' features altered and distorted furniture that has been sculpted and precisely re-upholstered to incorporate the recycled taxidermy animals. The resulting installation is both surreal and funny but with a more serious underpinning reference to the innocent people caught up in natural and manmade catastrophes. Like Hatoum, it references social, geographical, political and environmental displacement and strife.
Polly Morgan takes the craft of taxidermy to another level. Often using typical Victorian glass-domed vitrines as an integral part of her sculpture, she creates intimate and sometimes surreal scenes by juxtaposing domestic objects with taxidermed
creatures. The end result is a narrative that plays on a familiar aesthetic, but arranges the animals peacefully in death rather than apparently bringing them back to life as traditionally done in Victorian taxidermy dioramas. Her choice of using small vermin –rats and mice- also goes against the grain of tradition. Rather than displaying hunting trophies, the larger and more ferocious the animal the better, Morgan's vitrines and installation are delicate yet very thought-provoking, appearing to question what costs our own human intervention are having within the animal world. In the old hallway of the Pallant House we wanted to create a strange new space inhabited by some of these taxidermy works, which recalled the traditional grand entrance hall as a site of artworks and taxidermy. We also wanted to encourage the visitor to enjoy the hallway as a room rather than a transient space.
'Contemporary Eye: Crossovers' is by no means an overview on the topic of 'fine art and craft' as there are many other key artists who incorporate such hands-on methods of making who are not included in this exhibition, rather this exhibition is brought together through the kind collaboration of a number of British-based collectors who have generously allowed us a glimpse into their private collections from which we have identified this topic as an area of focus and interest. It is also our hope that by showing works of this genre that the audience will connect to both the borrowed artworks and also Pallant House Gallery's permanent collection in a different light: perhaps questioning more the process of creating, the methods of making, the attention to detail and of course the multifaceted levels of interpretation through different juxtapositions.
ExhibitionContemporary Eye: Crossovers2 October 2010–6 March 2011
Tour Curator's TourWednesday 9 February, 2pm There are a number of related talks, please see pages 44–45 for details.
Polly Morgan, Rest a Little on the Lap of Life (2005) © the artist. Image © Tessa Angus 2010
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spencer finch is the latest artist to produce a site-specific installation for the historic stairwell of Pallant house. curator, simon martin, introduces his work and explains the gallery's ethos behind commissioning contemporary artists
The principle of placing modern art in dialogue with historic architecture which led Walter Hussey's patronage of artists such as Marc Chagall and Graham Sutherland in Chichester Cathedral has guided the ethos of the displays at Pallant House Gallery: a lively dialogue between a Grade 1-listed Queen Anne townhouse and its displays of modern art. Since 2001 there has been a series of adventurous site-specific installations responding to the Gallery's architecture and history: a wall drawing by Paul Huxley RA in 2001, Susie MacMurray's 'Shell' installation of mussel shells lined with velvet in 2006, the Danish artist Nina Saunder's 'Autumn Flowers' in 2007, and, earlier this year, Toby Paterson's 'New New Festival', a mural inspired by a Ben Nicholson painting in the collection.
This autumn an installation by the American artist Spencer Finch (b.1962) will radically transform the way in which visitors engage with the architecture of the historic house. Finch works with light and colour to explore the nature of perception, uniting scientific methods with a poetic sensibility, to examine the physical, cultural and psychological factors that shape how people experience and remember visual and
sensory phenomena. I first encountered Spencer's work at the 2009 Venice Biennale, where I was struck by the beauty of his installation 'Moonlight (Glass Window) and Moondust' (Light Sculpture) - vibrant coloured window-panes in the historic architecture of Sansovino's Arsenale, which matched pixels of colour taken from photographs of moonlight on the Venetian lagoon. After seeing another visually arresting installation on the High Line by the Hudson River in New York called 'The River that Flows Both Ways, a Project with Creative Time' we invited Spencer to create a new work for Pallant House Gallery. His installation will feature a star-chandelier made of fluorescent lights inspired by Turner's study changing evening light, 'Evening Star' (1830), which will emit base light of the same spectrum as the evening star. There will be a corresponding installation directly across the courtyard in the glass loggia of the new wing– inspired by Constable's cloud studies, which will feature light filters on the windows altering the nature of light entering the space.
Commissioning an international artist at this juncture of his career is an exciting proposition: a major solo show opens in September in Washington DC, and his work is held in several museum collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Installation Spencer Finch: The Evening Star Until October 2011
Spencer Finch: The Evening StarSimon Martin
Spencer Finch, Moonlight, Venice Biennale 2009 © Julian Stallabrass
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Loved and loathed in equal measure, the legendary Vogue photographer John Deakin was a celebrated part of the artistic circle that convened in the pubs and clubs of Soho. Guest Curator Robin Muir introduces a new exhibition of Deakin's artists' portraits drawn from a rare archive, displayed alongside works by the sitters themselves
'Being fatally drawn to the human race, what I want to do when I photograph is to make a revelation about it. So my sitters into my victims. But I would like to add that it is only those with a daemon, however small and of whatever kind, whose faces lend themselves to be victimised at all' John Deakin, from 'Eight Portraits' John Deakin (1912–72) is an exception to the rule that good photographers tend on the whole to be good at self-promotion. Though he flourished for two brief but distinct periods at Vogue magazine in the post war years and has achieved recognition for the photographs he made there, it is particularly those of British painters and sculptors that have secured his reputation as a portraitist. Most recently the frayed and torn photographs he made for Francis Bacon to work from, and rescued from the painter's studio floor, have been acknowledged as vital to Bacon's interpretation of the human form.
That Deakin was taken up at all by a high fashion magazine surprised his friends, who were for the most part drawn from the artistic bohemia he portrayed best. They doubted he possessed the sensibilities for fashion photography nor did they place much faith in his capacity for salaried employment. They were not disappointed on either count. He was a mediocre fashion photographer and he enjoyed just one year under contract – 1948 to 1949 – before being dismissed for consistently mislaying Vogue's photographic equipment, unduly high entertaining expenses and general unreliability. While this came as no surprise to those who knew him, that he was given a second chance did. Vogue rehired him in 1951 and he spent three further years with the magazine, the most prolific and creative of his professional life. In 1954 he was fired again for broadly similar misdemeanours, the only photographer in the magazine's history to be hired and fired twice by the same editorial team. For some time afterwards, as an 'ex-Vogue photographer', he radiated a certain louche glamour.
A portfolio commissioned by Vogue in 1951 and 1952 of twelve contemporary artists is shown here in its entirety for the first time, along with other portraits of painters and sculptors Deakin made for the magazine at various times. These vintage prints were the magazine's raw material and in their ragged state show the patina of age and handling. They are, like so much of Deakin's oeuvre, lucky to have survived him, for
Gods & Monsters: John Deakin’s Portraits of British ArtistsRobin Muir
John Deakin, Francis Bacon (1952) Courtesy Vogue © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd
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they held no interest for him once published. They were re-discovered in Vogue's archives in the early 1990s. That Deakin has been missing until recently from photographic history is regrettable but unsurprising for he resisted his talent fiercely, treating success with mistrust and greeting failure with indifference. He never took his career with Vogue seriously and never expected it to make him a living and in this respect he was not disappointed. He really wanted to be a painter like his friends Francis Bacon, Robert Colquhoun, Lucian Freud and Michael Andrews, whom in time he would photograph. In turn, Andrews and Freud both painted his likeness. Loved and loathed in equal measure, Deakin was a celebrated part of the artistic circle that convened in the pubs and clubs of Soho, London's bohemian quarter, the lure of which eventually led him away from Vogue and regular employment. Despite some success in the 1930s, he was however an undistinguished painter. While studies of friends such as Francis Bacon and Daniel Farson, rendered mostly in primary coloured gloss paints, possess a naïve charm and his paper collages drawn from magazines and newspaper illustrations anticipate the beginnings of 'Pop Art', neither with hindsight serve him well. Nor did they at the time. Despite other more established – and more reliable – names at the magazine, Deakin was the obvious choice for the portfolio of painters. Part of the intimate circle around Bacon and Freud and counting Minton as a friend, John Craxton and Robert Medley as acquaintances and Keith Vaughan a wary associate, Deakin had personal contact with the London art world. Only with Bacon did he meet with difficulty. Eventually he persuaded his friend to sit, though the image arrived too late to be published in the portfolio. Deakin's photographs, typically tightly-cropped headshots often greater than life-size, made no concessions to vanity. After pushing the contrast in his prints to its maximum every pore and blemish was exposed in intimate close-up. His friend Daniel Farson described them as 'prison mugshots taken by a real artist'. The frontality of his composition and his very lack of 'style' set him apart from his contemporaries and anticipated by at least ten years the fashionable starkness of Richard Avedon's and Diane Arbus's portraiture.
As well as featuring in many lively biographies of the 1950s and 1960s, Deakin was also the subject of several character sketches in contemporary fiction, notably Colin Wilson's 'Ritual in the Dark' (1960) and Elaine Dundy's 'The Old Man and Me' (1964), mostly vitriolic for when drunk, as he often was, he was a monster. Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth's heiress, called him the 'second nastiest little man I ever met' (which led Farson, often the brunt of Deakin's malicious tongue, to wonder who could possibly be worse). But to his peers he was a true original, his professionalism behind the lens unimpeachable. For most of the time. Exhibition Gods & Monsters: John Deakin's Portraits of British Artists1 October–10 January 2011
Tour Curator's TourThursday 28 October, 6pm See page 46 for details
John Minton, Portrait of David Tindle as a Boy (1952) Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council (1985) © Royal College of Art Opposite Page John Deakin, John Minton (1951) Courtesy Vogue © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd
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This season a new exhibition in the De'Longhi Print Room celebrates a recent bequest of prints and drawings by artists such as Edward Bawden, Henry Moore, and Graham Sutherland. Pallant House Gallery Curator, Simon Martin, pays homage to the donor, architect David Medd obe (1917–2009).
I first met David Medd in the spring of 2007 when he came to visit the William Roberts exhibition. He enthusiastically told me that in his retirement his hobby was to visit exhibitions around the country and make detailed plans of each one: what pictures were hung and where. A few days later, I received a meticulous plan of the show, and then a couple of months later he was back, cheerily recording the 'Poets in the Landscape' exhibition.
We corresponded from time to time, and I was invited to see the Modernist home in Hertfordshire that he had designed with his wife Mary. Sadly I didn't get an opportunity to visit before I received a letter from his solicitor informing me that he had died. However, it continued to say that he had bequeathed his art collection to Pallant House Gallery. Although the bequest was unexpected, we enthusiastically accepted it, so complementary is it to the Gallery's collection. The artist Edward Bawden is strongly represented with iconic linocuts such as 'Brighton Pier' (1958) and 'Liverpool Street Station' (1960), the playful 'Old
Crab and Young' (1956) from the Aesop's Fables and 'Tyger! Tyger!' (1974) inspired by William Blake's poem. Another linocut of a domestic cat toying with a ball of string was dedicated to Medd's wife Mary, while a watercolour of a mosque in Istanbul and a lithograph of the interior of the Coal Exchange in Manchester reflect the collector's profession as an architect. Also included are prints by Robin Tanner and George Mackley, two of England's greatest wood engravers, etchings by Henry Moore of the sheep that surrounded the artist's home at Perry Green and the artist's teenage daughter Mary doing her homework.
As the obituaries appeared, I discovered that like Colin St John Wilson, Medd had been a leading figure in post-war British architecture. As a specialist in prefabricated building systems, he had formed a formidable partnership with his wife Mary and they complemented each other ideally to pioneer child-centred learning environments for Hertfordshire County Council that would go on to be copied all over the world and win the admiration of the likes of Le Corbusier for being spacious, flexible, and colourful. These buildings, like the print collection at the Gallery, will undoubtedly form their lasting legacy.
Exhibition Modern British Prints: The David Medd Bequest 14 September–7 November 2010
Modern British PrintsSimon Martin
Edward Bawden, Old Crab and a Young, (from Aesop’s Fables), c.1956, The David and Leslie Medd Bequest (2009)
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Seasons Greetings: Christmas Cards by Modern British Artists Martin Roberts
This Christmas a new exhibition in the De'Longhi Print Room casts a glimpse into the festive correspondences of several major British artists with a display of one-off cards created for friends and family. Taking its lead from the artists represented in the collection, the show features a range of cards by modern and contemporary British artists such as Graham Sutherland and John Piper.
Drawn from the personal acquisitions of several of the collectors and artists associated with the Gallery as well as the Gallery's own archive, the cards range from a 1906 etching by Glyn Philpot, executed in Pre-Raphaelite style, to contemporary cards by Gary Hume and Albert Irvin.
While some are true to the artists' professional output, many are an outlet for their more playful or humorous side. One particularly fascinating discovery is a 1937 Surrealist image sent from Graham and Kathleen Sutherland to his friend (and fellow student at Goldsmiths College) the artist Paul Drury. A humorous image of be-suited animals, it is quite unlike anything that one might expect Sutherland to send.
Animal motifs also feature in the offerings of the resolutely pagan John Craxton whose concession to expressions of festive cheer took the form of 'New Year' cards decorated with decidedly secular imagery;
while British textile designer and printmaker Enid Marx and her friend Margaret Lambert opted for celebratory wine-bottle shaped cards and reindeer-shaped cut-outs for their friends and family.
The Archives of the Gallery's architect and major benefactor Colin St John Wilson revealed striking cards by abstract artists Victor Pasmore and JDH Catleigh, fellow members of the Independent Group such as Theo Crosby and other architects. More recent cards include the range of cards commissioned from leading contemporary artists by the art transport company MOMART.
A specially commissioned Christmas card produced exclusively for Pallant House Gallery by Mark Hearld can be bought in the shop. Please see p.39 for details.
ExhibitionSeason's Greetings: Christmas Cards by Modern British Artists9 November 2010–9 January 2011
Christmas at Pallant House GalleryFree festive evenings from 6–8pm every Thursday in December leading up to Christmas. Please check the website for more details.
Graham Sutherland, Christmas Card (1937), Private Collection
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Dannielle hodson is one of six award-winners from last year’s outside in competition for outsider and marginalised artists. here, she talks about her background and influences ahead of her solo show in the studio
i was always artistic. I did a BTEC in art and design and then went to St Martins to do women’s fashion. The BTEC was a real eye-opener - my teachers taught me how to be free, how to look and not stop looking and to go with your instincts and feelings. I owe a lot to them. St Martins taught me that I didn't know everything and that I would always only rely on myself.
Doodling is very important to me. As a child my Nan would get me to scribble on a piece of paper and look inside and find as many faces as I could. It became such a natural way of seeing for me that I can see faces and people in all kinds of things now - marble flooring, wooden fences and torn off tube posters. She opened up a magical world for me. It's a very safe place and when I was lost inside, I was always very happy.
i am influenced by everything around me. I can't look at art alone as an influence however Pablo Picasso is my hero. I feel his art is alive and I want mine to be too.
i find it strange i'm an outsider artist. I have had some training in the arts but it was being marginalized by society that caused me to have success. When you have nothing, the things you truly have are all you have to work with and I guess being in a margin must provoke this in others as it did in me. The influence of prison and justice is prevalent in my exhibition although not obvious. It is not about the past. It is about how I feel now in response to those things and how I will grow from them. I have tried to question how people receive what you give them as a first impression.
To be an outside in winner was phenomenal. I really did feel at the time that I was absolutely hopeless, and the painting I was doing was the only way I could keep in touch with what was normal for me in such extreme conditions of hardship. For this lifeline to pull me out of such a dark place and give me hope and opportunity was incredible and for me proves it's what's on the inside that counts. If you stick to what and who you are, this will always look after you in good and bad times. ExhibitionDannielle Hodson: Outside In Winner 28 September–31 October 2010
Focus On: Outside In winner Dannielle Hodson
Dannielle Hodson, Swallow
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To mark a new exhibition in the De'Longhi Print Room surveying the wood engraving career of Garrick Palmer, Julie Brown, curator of the exhibition, talks to the Portsmouth-born artist about the enduring appeal of this prolific aspect of his work.
Julie Brown What sparked your interest in wood engraving and what has inspired you?
Garrick Palmer I studied Fine Art in Portsmouth. A teacher encouraged me to start wood engraving and it has been an interest which has continued throughout my life. I was lucky enough to have been involved with the Curwen Studios in London in the 70s when a lot of well-known artists, such as Henry Moore, were being commissioned to make lithographs, and were always breezing in and out of the studio. I was working on a commission for a New York-based publisher while Ceri Richards was there. This inspired my work 'Self Portrait and Homage to Ceri Richards' which combines my portrait and the work that I was doing at the time with imagery from a Richards painting. It was interesting for me to meet artists whose work was grand and powerful. You imagine their personalities to be the same, whereas Ceri Richards was in fact very shy and self-effacing, though very talkative when you got to know him, so our work took longer than it should have done! I now feel privileged to have been able to mix in such distinguished company. JB Has landscape been a continuous theme in your wood engravings?
GP I have always returned to landscapes as a source of personal fulfilment. They begin as drawings while out walking in particular places in Wiltshire, Dorset,
Garrick Palmer: A Life in Wood Engraving Julie Brown
Garrick Palmer, Self Portrait and homage to Ceri Richards, c.1990, Wood engraving
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Somerset or Hampshire. However, the works are not specific depictions but rather they are re-interpreted and re-invented from my experiences of these places. I did them for my own enjoyment, but was encouraged to show them to Peter Guy at the Folio Society who was impressed and offered me my first commission as an illustrator. From this, one thing led to another and I was offered further commissions.
JB A lot of your illustrations have involved the sea such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'The Sea and the Jungle' - were you particularly attracted to this type of work because of your roots in the naval town of Portsmouth?
GP I actually find landscapes more enjoyable than seascapes. But once I was obliged to undertake a commission, such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' for the Folio Society, I was committed to finishing it. This work was particularly challenging and took ten years to produce - from the idea to the finished article - as I kept fiddling around with it. There are so many different interpretations to the text and people have such strong, conflicting views on its meanings. 'The Sea and the Jungle' was considerably easier as the text is very readable and straightforward to interpret.
JB This show features some works for which you no longer have the blocks– can you explain how this came to be?
GP It is mostly a personality problem. I am never happy with the end result of anything –some works are simply more passable or respectable than others - and I made hasty judgements about some of my work and had the blocks re-faced. I now regard many of these as acts of folly. I cannot redo the work; the engravings can never be the same twice. These works are more important to me than they were ten or twenty years ago - I have had a re-appraisal of many of them while looking through to select works for this exhibition. The prints left for which I no longer have the blocks are now more valuable and I attach more significance to them. One example of this is 'Memory of a Winter Landscape' which I discovered by chance is held in the collection of Portsmouth Museums, as I stumbled across it on exhibition a few years ago. I do not have a copy of this work myself and regard this as one of my best landscapes.
JB You said that you feel your life story is intrinsically tied up in your wood engraving – in what way?
GP 'Memory of a Poignant Landscape' is a good example. On leaving my teaching post at Winchester School of Art in 1987 I took up photography and concentrated on this aspect of my art for the next ten years. My wife, the jeweller Ellis Palmer, was suffering from cancer, and had been going through a particularly heavy bout of chemotherapy in the late 90's. I realised that it would be better for me to come back into our shared studio and work along side her instead of hiding away in the Dark Room. Drawing on the block is the most important part of the work, so I spent a considerable amount of time working alongside her on this engraving, to the ultimate benefit of the print. In 1998, before the work was printed, my wife went into a hospice. So, while not immediately obvious, this work is full of hidden meaning and significance to me. Many of the works are undated, but I remember the general period as each holds a specific memory for me of the passage of time.
Exhibition 'Garrick Palmer: A Life in Wood Engraving' 11 January–13 March 2011 Talk Garrick Palmer in ConversationThursday 27 January, 6pm (p.45) Workshops Garrick Palmer Special Workshops Saturday 6 March and Saturday 13 March (p.49)
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Top Garrick Palmer, The Sea and the Jungle, Book illustration Bottom Garrick Palmer, Memory of a Poignant Landscape, 1998
Garrick Palmer, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Book illustration
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Gallery News
ARTISTS IN ExILE Twice Oscar-winner Dame Maggie Smith, and stage and screen veteran Keith Baxter appeared at Pallant House Gallery in July to perform a specially-commissioned play by the recently-knighted Oscar-winning playwright Sir Ronald Harwood inspired by the summer exhibitions 'Surreal Friends'. The play, entitled 'Surreal Friends: Artists in Exile', was written by Sir Ronald as a one-off production to raise money for the Gallery's on-going appeal. The performance was followed by a successful auction which raised several thousand pounds with prizes including the 'Artists in exile' script signed by Sir Ronald Harwood, Dame Maggie Smith and Keith Baxter and a 5* holiday to Mexico donated by Surreal friends sponsor, 'Mexicana Airlines.'
WORLD’S BIGGEST COFFEE MORNING To mark the 20th anniversary of the Macmillan Cancer Support's World's Biggest Coffee Morning, Pallant House Gallery will be holding an informal event in the Garden Gallery on Friday 24 September from 10am to 12 noon supported by the Gallery's Headline sponsors, De'Longhi. All proceeds will go towards Macmillan's work providing life-changing support to people living with cancer and their families.
CREATIVE COMMUNITIES The Gallery's pioneering and innovative Community programme is the subject of a special new exhibition at Petworth House this autumn (2 Oct–3 Nov 2010). Brighton-based photographer Lyn Weddle was commissioned to produce a series of photographs which capture and celebrate the many projects and the people involved. Lyn devised an exciting series of workshops which allowed individuals to reflect on their experiences of being involved in the Gallery, working with them to help them explore and express their own identity and experiences. The resulting exhibition provides a unique insight into the many faces and personalities of the Community Programme.
ST WILFRID'S OPEN ART RETURNS Pallant House Gallery and St Wilfrid's Hospice are pleased to announce the launch of the third 'Open Art competition'. Held in aid of two diverse organisations - the Hospice and Outside In, Pallant House Gallery's project for marginalised artists - the competition offers a unique opportunity for artists of all backgrounds to gain exposure for their work. It is open to artists of all ages and images of artworks in any medium may be submitted. For more information or to submit your work online go to www.openart.stwh.co.uk or www.outsidein.org.uk
Laura Flint, Brothers, 2009, (Entrant 2010)
Keith Baxter reading 'Artist's in exile' play© Jason Hedges
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Bookshop
GALLERy BOOKSHOP OFFERS Between October 1st to December 31st 2010 the Bookshop will be offering a 10% discount on all new Lund Humphries titles to our customers. Visit the Bookshop website at www.pallantbookshop.com for a list of titles on offer. All students with a valid NUS card can also receive 10% discount on all new books during this period.
A CRISIS OF BRILLIANCE A Crisis of Brilliance tells the extraordinary story of five important British artists of the 20th century: Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Richard Nevinson and Stanley Spencer. They met in the years before the Great War as students at the Slade School of Art, where they
formed what their teacher Henry Tonks described as the school's last 'crisis of brilliance'. £9.99 (PB)
GRAySON PERRy Newly released in paperback, 'Grayson Perry' is the first major monograph on the artist. Writer and art historian Jacky Klein explores Perry's work through a discussion of his major themes and subjects. Includes over 300 illustrations in colour with an up-to-date biography, bibliography and exhibition history, this definitive book explores fully the achievements of Perry's twenty-five-year career. £24.95 (PB)
KHADI The Bookshop has re-stocked with a wide range of our favourite Khadi paper products. Ideal for ink, watercolour and all art media the new selection includes notebooks, giftwrap and paper packs.
FABER & FABER POETRy BOOKS Six gift hardbacks, with illustrated covers and endpapers, continue the great Faber tradition of commissioning original prints for book jackets. Each book showcases the work of a leading illustrator/printmaker including Ed Kluz and Michael Kirkman. £8 each
STILL AVAILABLE Limited Edition Henry Moore Silk Scarf commissioned by Pallant House Gallery to celebrate the Henry Moore textile exhibition in Chichester. £85 (£75 for Friends)
CHRISTMAS CARD A unique, hand-made Christmas card by the contemporary artist Mark Hearld, specially commissioned by Pallant House Gallery and available exclusively in the Gallery Bookshop. Please contact the Bookshop for price details.
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Chairman of the Friends' Letter Lady Nicholas Gordon Lennox
DEAR FRIENDS This summer has been extremely eventful at Pallant House Gallery. 'Surreal Friends' was a groundbreaking international exhibition and attracted visitors from all parts of the United Kingdom as well as overseas. It received excellent press coverage and extremely favourable reviews (many of which you can read at www.surrealfriends.com).
The exhibition was supported by 40 events that many of you took part in. The Women Surrealists Art Lunch held on 1 July was particularly popular. Jillie Moss and Beth Funnell, the official Surreal Friends Exhibition guides, gave an illustrated lecture on 'Women Surrealists'. After an introduction by Stefan van Raay, the Gallery Director and Curator of the exhibition there followed a tour by co-curator, Joanna Moorhead. These fund-raising Art Lunches have been so successful that we are holding a second series this autumn. The sessions will focus on five figurative artists, all of whom have strong holdings in the Gallery (p.46).
In May a group of Friends spent five fascinating days in Cornwall visiting galleries and museums in St Ives and the surrounding area. Next year's Friends tour to West Yorkshire promises to be equally exciting, and includes the new Hepworth Gallery where Frances Guy is now curator. Please register your interest with the Friends' Office as soon as possible (p.42).
The new Friends autumn programme is featured on page xxx and includes a special invitation from the Royal Academician, Ken Howard, to visit his studio. The Art Book Club is back with a new format and there are details of the extremely popular Friends Twelfth Night Party.
Keith Mitchelson, the Friends' Honorary Secretary, and I wrote to the Friends a few weeks ago about the Gallery's Legacy campaign. It is gratifying to note that a number of people already have legacy arrangements in place to benefit the Gallery and others have informed us that, following our letter, they would now amend their Will to leave us a gift to reflect their passion for the Gallery. We would like to thank everyone wholeheartedly for remembering the Gallery in this way and helping to ensure its continued success in the future.
Finally, a reminder about your own private view of the new exhibitions 'Gods & Monsters: John Deakin's portraits of British Artists' and 'Contemporary Eye: Crossovers' on Sunday, 3 October, details on page 41.
My thanks to all of you for your unfailing support and continuing interest in Pallant House Gallery.
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Friends Tours
Gods and Monsters: Portraits of British Artists Fri 5 Nov, 2pm A special Friends tour led by Robin Muir, Curator, of 'Gods and Monsters: John Deakin's Portraits of British Artists'. £5 (£2.50 student Friends) includes coffee and biscuits.
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers Wed 20 Oct, 11am A special Friends' tour of Contemporary Eye: Crossovers led by the Artwise Curators £5 includes tea and biscuits.
Gallery Events
Friends Private View Sun 3 Oct, 11am A chance to enjoy your own private view of this season's exhibitions: 'Contemporary Eye: Crossovers' and 'Gods and Monsters: John Deakin's Portraits of British Artists'. Free. De'Longhi coffee and biscuits will be provided. Friends Coffee Morning Thur 9 Dec, 10.30am–12 noon Emma Robertson, Press and Marketing Officer, will be talking about her work promoting the multi-faceted and multi-layered activities of Pallant House Gallery. £5 includes coffee and mince pies.
Twelfth Night Party Wed 5 Jan, 5.30–7.30pm Back by popular demand, a Twelfth Night celebration with fizz, Field & Fork canapés, music and conversation. There will also be a preview of next year's programme and highlights of 2010 activities on the big screen. Come and see yourselves in action! £15 (as last year)
Visits
Chalk Hill Contemporary Art and Munstead Wood House and Garden Tue 12 Oct, 9am–6pm Chalk Hill, Guildford, is a striking Modernist house designed for the Agace family by Elspeth Beard as a home and an art gallery. We will have a tour by owner Annabel Agace followed by lunch at The Seahorse at Shalford. Afterwards we shall visit one of the most famous houses and gardens in England, Munstead Wood in Godalming. The former home of the influential garden designer, Gertrude Jekyll, the house was built for her by the British architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, in 1895. The
garden is currently being restored to its former glory. £32 includes coach travel, morning coffee at Chalk Hill, entry to Munstead Wood house and garden, and tips. It does NOT include lunch.
V&A and Ken Howard RA's Studio Wed 10 Nov, 8.30am–8 pm The trip begins with a visit to the exhibition 'Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929', which showcases the glamour of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its origins and legacy, followed by a chance to explore the museum and have lunch in the V&A Café. The late afternoon takes us to the studio of Royal Academician Ken Howard. Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy Schools, Howard is a painter noted for his handling of light and depictions of nudes in interiors. £32 includes coach travel and drinks at Ken Howard's studio. The price does NOT include entry to the exhibition or lunch. (Exhibition: £10 adults, £8 seniors. Free to V&A Members). Entry to the V&A is free.
Chalk Hill, Guildford © Tom Hammick
After Natalia Goncharova, Stage backcloth for the Wedding Scene in The Firebird, 1926, © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2010
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Art Book Club
The Art Book Club returns this month in a new format. Meetings will take place on Sunday afternoons once a month between October and March (no meeting in December) with each session led by different people. Copies of the books are available from the Gallery Bookshop.
Summer in February by Jonathan Smith Sun 24 Oct, 2.30–4.pm Summer in February (1995) tells the extraordinary story of Alfred Munnings and his first wife, Florence, set against the dramatic backdrop of Lamorna Cove and the Newlyn School. The discussion will be guided by Sarah Quail who led this summer's tour to St Ives and Area. £5 includes tea and Field & Fork cake.
life class by Pat Barker Sun 21 Nov, 2.30–4pm Gallery Guide Liz Walker leads the debate on this story of a group of Slade students, loosely based on Paul Nash and his contemporaries, on the eve of the outbreak of the Great War.£5 includes tea and Field & Fork cake.
The hearing Trumpet by leonora carrington Sun 23 Jan, 2.30–4pm Nick Higbee of the Gallery Bookshop will be discussing Leonora Carrington's 'The Hearing Trumpet', the fantastical story of a ninety-two-year-old whose life changes when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet.£5 includes tea and Field & Fork cake.
Forthcoming Visit
Wakefield and West Yorkshire 6–10 June 2011 A trip to several sites associated with Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore including the striking new Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield, which opens in May 2011; Leeds Art Gallery with its world class collection of 20th century British art and Renishaw Hall, the family home of the Sitwells for nearly four hundred years. Accommodation will be provided in the four-star Waterton Park Hotel, Walton on a dinner, bed and breakfast basis. Facilities include a golf course, luxurious indoor pool and level deck spa overlooking the lake. £610 per person in a twin or double room. Single person supplement is £60 per night. Please send a deposit of £100 per person with a covering letter to the Friends Office. Cheques should be made payable to 'Friends of Pallant House Gallery'. For more information contact the Friends' Office.
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Mark Gertler, Near Swanage (detail), 1916, Oil on board, Kearley Bequest, through The Art Fund (1989) By Permission of Luke Gertler
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Talks
Edward Bawden the Printmaker Thur 21 Oct, 6pm To coincide with the Modern British Prints show, Peyton Skipwith, former deputy managing director of The Fine Art Society and a writer and reviewer for Apollo and Country Life, will discuss Edward Bawden's work as one of the most celebrated British printmakers. Followed by a book-signing in the Gallery Bookshop. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends). Includes a glass of wine
Romantic Moderns Thur 4 Nov, 6pm During the 1930s and 1940s, a rich network of cultural and personal encounters was the backdrop for a modern English
renaissance. Alexandra Harris examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers: John Betjeman, Florence White, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, the Sitwells, John Piper, Cecil Beaton, and others. Followed by a book-signing in the Gallery Bookshop. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends). Includes a glass of wine
A Crisis of Brilliance: Five British Artists and the Great War Thur 11 Nov, 6pm Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, Richard Nevinson and Dora Carrington met in the years before the Great War as students at the Slade School of Art, where they formed what their teacher Henry Tonks described as the school's last 'crisis of brilliance'. Using letters, diaries, memoirs and biographies, Haycock recreates the formative
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years of these supremely gifted painters. Followed by a book-signing in the Gallery Bookshop. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends). Includes a glass of wine
In Camera: Francis Bacon Thur 2 Dec, 6pm Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in the photographs of John Deakin and Eadweard Muybridge, film-stills and mass-media imagery. Art historian Martin Harrison reveals how these new media informed some of Bacon's most important paintings. Followed by a book-signing in the Bookshop. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends). Includes a glass of wine
Edmund de Waal: A Hidden Inheritance Thur 13 Jan, 6pm The leading British ceramicist Edmund de Waal reveals the fascinating story of a collection of Japanese netsuke carvings, which were passed through generations of his family from Charles Ephrussi in Paris to Vienna at the time of the Anschluss and back to Japan. Followed by a book-signing in the Bookshop. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends). Includes a glass of wine
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Edward Bawden, The Coal Exchange, 1964, The David Leslie Medd Bequest (2009)
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Brett Whiteley, Pilsdon Hill, Dorset (1977) Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council (1985) Adopted for conservation by an Anonymous Donor © Estate of the artist
Man in a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud Thur 20 Jan, 6pm Lucian Freud spent seven months painting a portrait of art critic Martin Gayford. Here he recounts their conversations and gives a rare insight into the artist's working practice. Followed by a book-signing in the Gallery Bookshop. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends). Includes a glass of wine
Garrick Palmer: A Life in Wood Engraving Thur 27 Jan, 6pm Join the artist in conversation with Assistant Curator Julie Brown for an intimate insight into the art of wood-engraving and the inspiration behind his exquisite prints. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends). Includes a glass of wine
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Grayson Perry Thur 3 Feb, 6pm Grayson Perry is renowned for his ceramic vases decorated with unconventional imagery. Jacky Klein, author of a major new monograph, explores his hard-hitting yet exquisite work charting references to the artist's upbringing and life as a transvestite as well as its broader engagement with issues from war and religion to politics and sex. Followed by a book-signing in the Bookshop. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends). Includes a glass of wine
Contemporary Ceramics Now Thur 24 Feb, 6pm Simon Martin explores recent developments in contemporary ceramics from studio pottery to the witty avant-garde, including the work of artists in 'Contemporary Eye: Crossovers' such as Edmund de Waal, Grayson Perry, Barnaby Barford, Rachel Kneebone, Bouke de Vries and Ruth Claxton. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends). Includes a glass of wine
Artwork of the Month Talks
An opportunity to hear a Gallery Guide focus on one work from the Collection, exploring techniques and placing it in the context of the artist's life and times. Last Wednesday of the month. Free with Gallery admission. Please meet at reception. No booking required.
Brett Whiteley, 'Pilsdon Hill, Dorset' 27 Oct, 12pm Alan Davie, 'Setting for the Cosmic Dance' 24 Nov, 12pm Edward Lear, 'Christmas at Varazze' 29 Dec, 12pm Jack Butler yeats, 'The Ox Mountains' 26 Jan, 12pm Cezanne 'Les Grands Baigneurs' 23 Feb, 12pm
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Garrick Palmer, Bartleby, 1968
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John Craxton, Figure in a Grey Landscape (1945) On loan from the Artist, © The Estate of John Craxton
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Performance
Pallant Proms Sat 30 Oct, 12 noon Sat 27 Nov, 12 noon The season of concerts by young up-and-coming pianists organised in collaboration with Chichester University and the Royal College of Music continues with the return of Poom Prommachart of the Royal College of Music who dazzled the audience last season, and pianist Sergey Basukinsky, a student at the Royal College of Music. With continuing thanks to Dr John Birch for the loan of the Bösendorfer grand piano. £5 (Students £2.50) Includes Gallery admission.Friends free but donations are gratefully received.
Short Course
Art Lunch Course: Five British Figurative Artists Thur 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov and 2 Dec, 10.30am–2.15pm The Art Lunch continues with five sessions looking at British figurative artists, Sickert (7 Oct), Bomberg (21 Oct), Coldstream (4 Nov), Andrews (18 Nov) and Auerbach (2 Dec). Each session starts with a talk on a selected artist, continues with a private lunch especially prepared by Field & Fork and concludes with a tour and discussion in front of key examples of the artists' work in the collection. £250 for all 5 sessions (£220 Friends), £55 per individual session, (Friends £48)
depending on availability.Gallery Tours
Gods & Monsters: Curator's Tour Thurs 28 Oct, 6pm Robin Muir, Curator of the Vogue Archive, provides his perspective on Deakin's photographic portraits and the related artworks by artists such as Minton, Paolozzi, Freud, Colquhoun and William Scott. £8 (Students £4.50)
From Cézanne to Picasso Wed 26 Jan, 11am Fri 18 Feb, 2pm Join the Gallery guides for an insight into some of the European artists and modern art movements such as Cubism, Futurism and Fauvism represented in the exhibition, including Klee, Léger, Matisse, Picasso, and Roualt. £8 (Students £4.50)
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers Wed 9 Feb, 2pm Join the Artwise curators, Susie Allen, Laura Culpan and Deana Vanagan, to learn more about the ideas behind the exhibition of artworks by contemporary artists such as Laura Ford, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Nina Saunders and Damien Hirst. £8 (Students £4.50)
Home and Away: Artists and Landscape Fri 4 Mar, 11am Julie Brown, Assistant Curator, leads a tour of the Collections display of landscapes by artists including David Bomberg and John Minton. £8 (Students £4.50)
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Collection Highlights Tours
The perfect introduction to the Pallant House Gallery collections: A free tour led by knowledgeable Gallery Guides. Every Saturday at 2pm. Please meet at reception. Free with Gallery admission. No booking required.
FREE Thursday Evening Tours
Discover a new perspective on familiar works with a themed guided tour every Thursday at 6pm. Please meet at Reception. No booking required
Collectors and Collecting 7 Oct / 2 Dec / 27 Jan Learn who the collectors were, what and why they collected, and how the works came to reside at Pallant House Gallery.
Portraits: Image and Identity 14 Oct / 9 Dec /3 Feb Explore the people behind the paintings from nudes to buttoned-up 18th century aristocrats.
Creative Liaisons 21 Oct / 16 Dec / 10 Feb Explore the true stories of love, friendship, affairs and rivalries in the personal stories of the artists in the collection.
Landscape and Modernity 28 Oct/ 23 Dec / 17 Feb The idea of landscape has changed over time. Discover how different artists have responded to this time-honoured theme.
Still Life: The Language of Objects 4 Nov / 30 Dec / 24 Feb Explore how still life has been used as a vehicle for artistic innovation from traditional symbolism to Cubism and Pop Art.
Architecture of Pallant House Gallery: Historic and Modern 11 Nov / 6 Jan /3 Mar Explore the differences and similarities between the two buildings, their architects and the different histories of the buildings in this tour.
Gender and Identity: Artists, Models and Muses 18 Nov / 13 Jan / 9 Mar Discover how gender and identity have shaped the artists, models and muses connected with the collection.
Pop Art and the Swinging Sixties 25 Nov / 20 Jan / 17 Mar A chance to find out more about the revolution in society in the 1960s heralded by British Pop Art.
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Artwork of the Month Workshops
For adults and students. Bring your own art materials, as specified. Please book early as places are limited £6 per person plus a £3.50 model charge, where applicable
Brett Whiteley, 'Pilsdon Hill, Dorset' 27 Oct, 1–3pm Artist: Tim Gwyther. Whiteley uses a range of mark-making techniques to convey a sense of space and distance. Using pens, brushes and ink we will be looking at a variety of approaches to drawing, and exploring ways in which flowing lines and washes of tone can combine to describe the folds and contours of the land. Materials: black and/or sepia drawing ink, watercolour brushes, drawing pen, pencil, a piece of sponge and good quality paper. Also bring any photos you have of similar scenery/views.
Alan Davie, 'Setting for the Cosmic Dance' 24 Nov, 1–3pm Artist: Sue Halloway. Working in the spirit of Alan Davie, this workshop will aim to produce an A1 size painting, working on the floor like Davie. Jazz music and images of cultural symbols will be provided on the day to help inspire you! Inform reception when booking if you would prefer to work from easels/tables Materials: acrylic paints (intense colours and black), a range of brushes and 2” household painting brushes. Paper will be provided. Wear old clothes, shoes/protective clothing.
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Edward Lear, 'Christmas at Varazze' 29 Dec, 1–3pm Artist: Tim Gwyther. Edward Lear captures the appearance of a place at a particular time on a very special day. In this workshop you will use washes of colour, drawn lines, and even text if you wish, to evoke the atmosphere of somewhere that has a special significance for you. Materials: Bring a suitable photograph, watercolour paints, brushes, pen, ink and good quality paper.
Jack Butler yeats, 'The Ox Mountains' 26 Jan, 1–3pm Artist: Jenny Tyson. Create a landscape painting in acrylics working from landscape photographs. We will focus on the expressive use of colour and will experiment with texture and the application of paint. Materials: acrylics, brushes, palettes, tools for applying paint apart from brushes, an appropriate primed support (board or canvas) and landscape images.
Cezanne, 'Les Grands Baigneurs' 23 Feb, 1–3pm Artist: Jenny Tyson. Working from a life model you will create a drawing of several life poses from the classical tradition on one sheet of paper, which you will then use to create a design in the style of Cezanne's lithograph. Materials: A range of drawing materials and A3 or larger paper.
Sunday Art Classes
A programme of workshops based on the collections and led by artists experienced in traditional art techniques. £9 per personLife classes: £12.50 pp inclusive of £3.50 model charge. Please bring your own art materials, as specified. Book early.
Portraiture 3 Oct, 1–4pm Artist: Sue Halloway. Focussing mainly on Michael Andrews' painting 'The Colony Room' the first part of the workshop will look at the portrayal of character through the use of a variety of media. The second half will focus on Francis Bacon's painting style and his layered paint technique to create a small portrait. Materials: Bring materials of your choice including pencils, oil pastels and paints (gouache, watercolour, acrylics or oil) plus good quality paper or a primed board/canvas.
Printmaking 14 Nov, 1–4pm Artist: Helen Brown. Explore the process of relief printing, and take inspiration from Edward Bawden's linocuts. Learn to cut and print a simple relief block, creating bold shapes and cut marks. All materials will be provided.
Photography – Part 1 28 Nov, 1–4pm Photographer: Matt Wreford. Focusing on John Deakin's approach to portrait photography, the session will include an introduction to studio lighting. Participants will learn how to apply principles of lighting to their own portraits and will aim to take a portrait of a model by the end of the session. Materials: Any film or digital camera which has full manual control ie. Not compact. It would be helpful for participants to have a basic knowledge of camera use including aperture, shutter speed and ISO.
Michael Andrews, The Colony Room 1, 1962, Oil on board, Pallant House Gallery (Wilson Gift through The Art Fund, 2006), © The Estate of Michael Andrews, Courtesy of James Hyman Gallery, London
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Photography Part 2 5 Dec, 1–4pm Photographer: Matt Wreford. An opportunity to ask questions and talk through any issues raised by the first workshop, followed by a group critique for those who wish to show their work and discuss it. While using Adobe Lightroom to show the photographs, Matt will also give an overview of this software.
Life Class - sculpture 16 Jan, 1–4pm Artist: Dinah Kelly. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful sculpture 'Leda' by Maillol, we will work directly from a life model and create a sculpture using clay. Guidance will be given in the use of modeling tools to make the forms of the human body in 3D. All materials will be provided.
Inner Dancer 6 Feb, 1–4pm Artist: Jane Moran. An exploration of the boundaries between craft and fine art. Many women artists have used dolls/figures to explore their inner thoughts and identity. This workshop will refer to the work of Laura Ford as inspiration for participants to create a 3D sculptural figure using felting techniques, fabrics and stitch. Materials: Supplied. Bring dress-making scissors, if you have them, and any fabric thread you would like to use.
The Thinking Eye 13 Feb, 1–4pm Artist: Louise Bristow. Throughout his life Paul Klee was a passionate teacher and advocate of 'outsider art'. Taking Klee's painting 'Bewölkung' (Cloud) as a starting point, we will investigate the artist's approach to his work. Materials: watercolour paper, pencils, brushes, watercolours and/or inks
Special Workshops
Wood engraving with garrick Palmer (Two-part workshop) 6 Mar,1–4pm and 13 Mar, 1–4pm The first workshop will begin with an introduction to design and the use of tools. Participants will then reverse their designs onto blocks ready to begin the engraving process. In the second workshop, Garrick will work with you on an individual basis to help you to achieve your final print. This workshop will be concluded by an informal discussion/group critique focusing on the prints produced. Materials: Please bring a design for engraving and a hardback book to provide a raised work surface.There is an additional £2 charge for the wooden blocks and use of tools (or bring your own if you preferred). All other materials will be supplied. A working knowledge of wood engraving would be helpful.
Children's Saturday Workshops
Please book early as places are limited £6.00 per child
Light Up your World! 13 Nov, 10.15am–12.15noon Artist: Janet Sang. Be inspired by the ideas of the contemporary artist Spencer Finch and his visions for colour and light. Use coloured filters, torches and projected light to create your own magical landscapes on a screen, with sound effects! (Ages 5-10)
Artistic Christmas Cards 4 Dec, 10.15am–12.15noon Artist: Jenny King. Come and see the exhibition of artists' Christmas cards and then make your own glittering card with a modern twist to take home, using decorative printing blocs and plenty of festive colour. (Ages 5-10)
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Beetles and Bugs from Bits and Bobs 15 Jan, 10.15am–12.15noon Artist: Jane Chitty. Have a look at the butterfly wallpaper on display and then use everyday objects to print your own favourite insects – from ants, bees and caterpillars to wiggly worms. Try out strange patterns and curious colours to invent your own 'Superbugs' (Ages 5–10)
Fabulous Mobiles 22 Jan, 10.15am–12.15noon Artist: Dinah Kelly. Create your own mobile to capture both movement and light, using wire and coloured tissue. You'll form colourful, exciting patterns in space inspired by Spencer Finch's contemporary stained glass window and light installations in the historic house. (Ages 11–14)
The Fabric of the Landscape 5 Mar, 10.15am–12.15noon Artist: Deborah Harwood. Inspired by the landscapes in the exhibition you will be creating a landscape of your own using fabric to collage, and learning paint techniques to enhance your picture. (Ages: 8+)
young Artists FREE Workshops (13+)
Booking essential as places are limited
Future Journeys Part 1 - 9 Oct, 10.15am 15.15 approx, to include break Part 2 - 20 Nov, 10.15am–12.15 Using the 'Contemporary Eye' exhibition to inspire you, create a 2D or 3D artwork based on a future journey, a wish or ambition, a character, an environment, or something wild and fantastical. You will discover the way artists explore themes and blur the boundaries between Fine Art and Craft and experiment with a wide range of techniques. Artist: Maria Tribe
Children's Free Holiday Workshops (Ages 5-16)
Booking essential as places are limited
Halloween Family Workshop Tue 26 Oct, 10.15–12.15 and repeated 13.15–15.15 Artist: Jane Moran. Enjoy making creative, decorative lanterns out of tissue paper and cane. And think cats, pumpkins, spooky faces and plenty more. (Ages 5 +, plus one parent/guardian)
Deck the Halls with…. Sat 18 Dec, 10.15–12.15 and repeated 13.15–15.15 Artist: Derek Matthews. Christmas comes but once a year… so join us this year in using collage and assemblage to create fun and unique paper Christmas wreaths and decorations. (Ages: 8+)
The Dancer and The Bird Tue 22 Feb, 10.15–12.15 and repeated 13.15–15.15 Artist: Louise Bristow. In the style of these two vibrant works by Matisse and Braque, we will be exploring paper collage, chine collé and mono-printing to make some vivid masterpieces of our own. (Ages: 5+)
Debbie Lawson, Spider. Image © the artist Courtesy the artist & NETTIE HORN, London
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Opening of Surreal Friends (Left to Right) Antonio Rodriguez Rivera, Wendi Norris, Teresa Arcq (Co-Curator of Surreal Friends), Stefan van Raay (Curator of Surreal Friends and Director of the Gallery), Eduardo Medina Mora (Ambassador of Mexico), Laura Medina Mora, Manuel Diaz Cebrian (Director of Mexican Toursim Board), Ignacio Duran, Joanna Moorhead (Journalist and co-curator of Surreal Friends, Patricia Engel, Vicente Salas (Director of Mexicana), Sofia and Laura Salas
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Although predominantly Modern British art, the Pallant House Gallery Collections also contain several important works by European Masters from Cézanne to Picasso. To mark a new in-focus display celebrating this continental legacy, Gallery Guide Alan Wood introduces one of the key pieces, this month's Artwork of the Month.
In 1895, Ambroise Vollard, a Paris dealer and important champion of avant-garde art, gave Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) his first one-man show. Rejected annually by the Salon, there had been few opportunities to see his paintings. Consequently Cézanne was little known in France and hardly at all in Britain. At last 150 were on show but there was little support from the public.
Following the show, Vollard commissioned three lithographs. For two of these Cézanne chose the theme that had occupied him throughout his life: naked bathers in a landscape setting. The first expression of this theme was probably in 1859 when he included a drawing of three swimmers under an enormous tree, in a letter to his friend Emile Zola. He was recalling the time spent with childhood friends in the area around Aix-en-Provence where he was born and grew up. Later, Zola described in his novel 'The Masterpiece,' how they would swim in the waters of a mountain torrent and 'spend whole days, stark naked, lying on the burning sand, then diving back into the water.'
Cézanne's father wanted his son to follow a career in law but he was a reluctant student. For a time he worked in his father's bank but in 1862 went to Paris and enrolled at the Atelier Suisse. There he met Camille Pissarro, who played an important part in his creative development. For the rest of the decade, with support from his father, he divided his time between Paris and Aix. He had permission to copy in the Louvre and took an interest in a bewildering variety of Old Master paintings. A desire to emulate the traditional themes of the past led to the creation of monumental figure paintings inspired by Titian, Giorgione and Veronese. This lithograph was a re-working of the oil painting 'Les Baigneurs au Repos', exhibited in 1877 at the third Impressionist exhibition. In this painting and in the series of around 200 that were to follow, Cézanne brought together his affinity with nature, memories of a Provencal childhood, dominated by Mont Sainte-Victoire and his love of the Renaissance. ExhibitionFrom Cézanne to Picasso: European Masters in the Pallant House Gallery Collection 15 January–13 March 2011 Talk and WorkshopArtwork of the Month Wednesday 23 February Talk, 12pm (p.45) Workshop, 1pm (p.48)
Artwork of the Month: 'Les Grandes Baigneurs' by Paul Cézanne, 1898Alan Wood
Paul Cézanne, Les Grands Baigneurs (The Large Bathers) (1898) Kearley Bequest, through The Art Fund (1989) © Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
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