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St Ives and Elsewhere


5 March – 6 June 2025
William Scott, Orange and Blue, 1957

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sasza Blonder, Sandra Blow, Terry Frost, Doreen Heaton-Potworowska, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Ivon Hitchens, Katarzyna Kobro, Peter Lanyon, Bob Law, Leopold Lewicki, Adam Marczyński, Margaret Mellis, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, Piotr Potworowski, William Scott, Władysław Strzemiński, Alfred Wallis, John Wells, Bryan Wynter, Keith Vaughan

The exhibition presents works by British artists associated with the milieu of St Ives, a small port town located in the westernmost part of the Cornish Peninsula in Great Britain. This milieu, bringing together artists such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sandra Blow, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Margaret Mellis, William Scott, and Bryan Wynter, did not constitute a formal group whose activity would be defined by a uniform programme. It was here that a specific painting and sculpture idiom was developed, derived from the abstract structures of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson’s works, an idiom in which the choice of formal solutions is more or less closely correlated with the saturation and course of the experience of the landscape.

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Spotlight On 4: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham Museum

2 November 2024 – 8 March 2025

This exhibition is the fourth in Chippenham Museum’s Spotlight series dedicated to its growing Modern and Contemporary Art Collection.

The project began in 2019 with the desire to celebrate the rich artistic history of this part of North Wiltshire. As a permanent collection, it acts as a source of inspiration, education and enjoyment for all.

At the heart of the Modern and Contemporary Art Collection are works that acknowledge the legacy of the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, a pioneering residential art school that counted some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art amongst its teachers and students.

North Wiltshire’s creativity proudly extends beyond the Academy, and the collection records and celebrates the many contemporary artists who continue to live and work in this area today.

The exhibition featured work by the following artists:
Kay Le Seelleur Ara, Kenneth Armitage, Guy Bigland, Alma Boyes, Susie Brooks, John Chilver, Dominic Clare, Andrew Cross, William Crozier, Anna Currey, Simone Dawood, Stephen Ellis, Alex Faulkner, Selina Fischer, Astrid Furnival, John Furnival, Katherine Gili, Patrick Haines, Keith Harrison, Verity James, Richard Kennedy, David King, Julia Manning, Michael Stubbs, Marianne Fox-Ockinga, Ione Parkin, Tim Parry-Williams, Michael Pennie, Jackie Pope, Terry Pope, Paul Rudall, James Scott, Robert Scott, William Scott, Jack Shirreff, Alice Sielle, Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, Julia Vezza, Helen Wilks, and Alistair Young.

Further details about the artworks can also be found in the accompanying catalogue available in the museum shop.

OPENING TIMES:

Monday – Saturday: 10.00am – 4.00pm

ADMISSION

Free entry

CHIPPENHAM MUSEUM

The Old Palace
9-10 Market Place
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN15 3HF

Tel: +44 (0)1249 705020

E-mail: heritage@chippenham.gov.uk

Chippenham Museum : Exhibitions
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The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain

 

The Pallant House Gallery will hold the first major exhibition to explore British still life.

The Shape of Things questions the idea that still life is a lesser genre, showing how important it is to artists and society. Featuring a ‘Who’s Who’ of Modern and Contemporary British artists, the exhibition digs into still life’s rich symbolism and how it’s pushed boundaries and new ideas.

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Discussion with Christopher Rothko, Kate Rothko Prizel and James Scott

Kate Rothko Prizel, Christopher Rothko, Anita Rogers and James Scott
Christopher Rothko, Kate Rothko Prizel, Anita Rogers and James Scott.  Photo : Jon-Paul Rodriguez

9 May 2023

Anita Rogers Gallery hosted a talk with Christopher Rothko, Kate Rothko Prizel and James Scott, moderated by gallery owner Anita Rogers.  The discussion was in conjunction with their current exhibition Mark Rothko and William Scott: Continuing the Dialogue. Continue reading “Discussion with Christopher Rothko, Kate Rothko Prizel and James Scott”

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Mark Rothko & William Scott: Continuing the Dialogue

William Scott, Blue and Black Painting, 1959
Blue and Black Painting, 1959

26 April  – 3 June 2023

Anita Rogers Gallery is thrilled to present Mark Rothko and William Scott: Continuing the Dialogue, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by two twentieth-century masters, offering new insight into their relationship and mutual admiration, influence, and respect.  Large-scale works on canvas will be complemented by preparatory drawings, as well as correspondence between the two artists. Mark Rothko (1903-1970), one of the most prominent of the American abstract painters, and William Scott CBE, RA (1913-1989), a leader in the Modernist movement in the UK, met in 1953 and consequently grew close through letters and visits.  By including the artists’ works and words together, the gallery hopes to share the story of this friendship with a wider public. Continue reading “Mark Rothko & William Scott: Continuing the Dialogue”

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Save the Date: Mark Rothko & William Scott: Continuing the Dialogue

Blue, Grey, Blue, 1960

This spring, the Anita Rogers Gallery will present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Mark Rothko and William Scott, as well as framed correspondence between the two artists. The show will be complemented by a colour  catalogue  featuring an essay by David Anfam. Continue reading “Save the Date: Mark Rothko & William Scott: Continuing the Dialogue”

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Living the Landscape

Boats Cornwall, 1948

28 May – 25 September 2022

With the exhibition Living the landscape – Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and the artists of St. Ives 1939-1975, Museum Belvédère is the first museum in the Netherlands to pay attention to a special chapter in the history of modern art in Great Britain.

World-renowned artists such as Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth turned the picturesque coastal town of St. Ives in Cornwall into a dazzling international arts center. The many artists who settled there for a short or longer period of time were mainly inspired by the age-old landscape, the sea and the connection between the local population and its environment. Far away from the big art centers and current developments, they found a personal style tailored to light, land and space. Continue reading “Living the Landscape”

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Postwar Modern New Art in Britain 1945-1965

Morning in Mykonos, 1960-61
Morning in Mykonos, 1960-61

A revelatory new take on art in Britain after the Second World War, a period when artists had to make sense of an entirely altered world.

Postwar Modern explores the art produced in Britain in the wake of a cataclysmic war. Certainty was gone, and the aftershocks continued, but there was also hope for a better tomorrow. These conditions gave rise to an incredible richness of imagery, forms and materials in the years that followed.

Focusing on ‘the new’, Postwar Modern features 48 artists and around 200 works of painting, sculpture, photography, collage and installation. It explores the subjects that most preoccupied artists, among them the body, the post-atomic condition, the Blitzed streetscape, private relationships and imagined future horizons. As well as reconsidering well-known figures, the exhibition foregrounds artists who came to Britain as refugees from Nazism or as migrants from a crumbling empire, in addition to female artists who have tended to be overlooked.

Morning in Mykonos, 1960-61 is one of five works by William Scott which can be seen at the exhibition. Continue reading “Postwar Modern New Art in Britain 1945-1965”